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Sadler's Lecture Podcast Hits 200 Episodes!

A bit over two years ago, I created the Sadler's Lectures podcast.  Viewers had been asking me for years to convert some of my YouTube videos into downloadable podcasts that they could listen to anywhere.  I'd balked at it for a while, hesitating to add yet another activity to my chronically-full schedule, but then  decided that once I hit a certain level of monthly support on Patreon, I'd commit to starting a podcast.

Sadler's Lectures is exactly what it sounds like.  I'm not hosting a new podca...

Twelve Podcast Lectures on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is among my favorite works of philosophy.  I've been studying and teaching it for about half of my life at this point, and one of the portions of the text I like the most are the specific discussions of the virtues and the vices found in books 3 and 4.  Quite some time back, I created core concept videos on each of those as resources for students in my classes.
More recently, I took twelve core concept videos on those topics, converted the lectures to sound files, b...

Seven Podcast Lectures on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground is a text I teach frequently in certain of my classes - Into to Philosophy, Ethics, and of course Existentialism - and quite some time back, I shot a series of core concept lecture videos covering the main ideas of the work.  In order to provide my students (and others) with additional resources, I've been converting my videos into podcast episodes.

There are seven podcast episodes in the sequence, running about two hours total, so one could listen to th...

Three Podcast Episodes on Lawrence Kohlberg and Moral Development

One of the thinkers whose work I teach in my Ethics classes is the psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.  I tend to assign his essay "Moral Development: A Review of the Theory," which provides a good overview of his six stages of moral development, and also discusses its applications to and implications for K-12 education.  Some time back, I shot a sequence of three core concept videos covering the main ideas of the piece.

Recently, in order to provide the same lecture material to my students in anothe...

Wisdom for Life Radio Show Now On Podbean

My co-host, Dan Hayes, has taken all of our Wisdom for Life radio show episodes and put them into a podbean site.  Now it's way easier for fans of the show - one of the few philosophy-focused radio shows out there! - to find and listen to whatever episodes strike their interest.
The show episodes can also be found on Riverwest Radio's (WXRW 104.1 LP FM) channel Soundcloud site, but it can be a bit difficult to find them - like looking for the proverbial needles in a haystack.  So having them all ...

July Online AMA Session Coming Up Tomorrow!

It's time again to answer questions from my viewers, listeners, readers, supporters, and other fans.  So tomorrow, I'll be holding my monthly online AMA - an Ask Me Anything - session. It'll be taking place at Noon Central Time tomorrow.
If there's a question you've been wanting to ask me, pop in to the session and I'll hopefully have an answer for you. You'll want to get your questions in early, since these sessions tend to draw a lot of viewers, and many of them ask questions.

Since some people ...

Worlds Of Speculative Fiction Series Resumes With Cordwainer Smith

Back in 2016, I started a new monthly talk series, hosted at one of our local libraries, called "Worlds of Speculative Fiction".  Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, we had met regularly to discuss authors and their bodies of literature within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, cyberpunk, weird, alternate history, and others that fit into that overarching class of "speculative fiction".
Each session was devoted to one author, and usually focused on one main series of their works in which...

Recent Wisdom For Life Show Episodes

Since the WXRW radio station closed for in-person shows due to COVID-19, we've been recording episodes of the Wisdom For Life weekly.  This is a radio show devoted to approaching philosophy in public and practical ways, applying it to issues, challenges, and problems of life.
We worked out a good way to record sessions for the show.  We videoconference using Zoom, and each of us record on our end using Audacity.  Then we edit the tracks and add the intro and outro music, send it off the station, ...

Six Podcast Episodes on Cicero's On Fate

One of the topics I like to teach in my Introduction to Philosophy classes is that of freedom and determinism.  There is a lot of great literature discussing these metaphysical matters, and one of the early important texts is an (unfortunately) incomplete one by Marcus Tullius Cicero, called On Fate. 

The ideas in On Fate get referenced by several other authors who I often teach as well, particularly Augustine of Hippo and Boethius, when they are considering the same issues of freedom of the wil...

Twelve Videos on Cicero's On Friendship

Marcus Tullius Cicero 's short work On Friendship is one that I occasionally teach in my Intro to Philosophy and my Ethics classes, usually counterposed to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics books 8 and 9, which also focus on the topic of friendship.  When I teach classes focused specifically on Love, Friendship, and Relationships, On Friendship is one of the central works for the class.

I like to have core concept videos available as supplemental resources for students in my face-to-face...