Philosophia: Recent Episodes
Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
Please note that this show is currently on hiatus. In the meantime, we hope you that you will enjoy the past episodes.
This show features the clear-thinking and articulate philosopher, Dr. David Schenk. After teaching philosophy at college for over twenty years, Dr. Schenk now offers his gentle but hard-hitting analysis of the classical tradition of education and philosophy as it engages contemporary culture and thought.
How does the cultural adoption of secular moral categories impact people's qualities of life? How can classical teaching provide a solution to the modern loss of personhood?
What moral deformities exist in our K-12 education system? How does biological reductionism play into this confusion of morality?
What drives the error in our moral thinking today? How have the metaphysics of ethics changed over the course of history?
In this episode, we continue our discussion of the primacy of personhood with the addition of chronological snobbery.
In this episode, we focus on what the benefits of classical education are for students and how those benefits show up in the classroom.
In this episode, we continue our discussion on thinking clearly–this time by learning how to avoid confusing categories, questions, and assertions.
In this episode, we continue our discussion of why intellectual honesty is so greatly needed and increasingly rare.
In this episode, we continue our discussion of why intellectual honesty is so greatly needed and increasingly rare.
The first step of academic inquiry is … honesty. Wait, what’s academic honesty? Find out.