Hi-Phi Nation
Series produced by Barry Lam
A show about philosophy that turns stories into ideas.
An annual ten-episode series on a wide range of philosophical topics that mixes narrative storytelling with contemporary philosophy in a sound-rich, documentary-style production. The show aims to exhibit the insight and importance of philosophy to negotiating the full range of human experiences and endeavors. It also aims to exhibit to listeners the virtues, and even the coolness, of deliberative and reflective thinking, the uncovering of assumptions, and the pleasures of complexity.
19 Pieces
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Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts? The mantra at the moment is that they do, because of media echo chambers, motiv...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 43:49
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
We look at the question of whether addicts have free will, as it played out in a case in the Supreme Court in 1987, and the Massachusetts Supreme C...
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 47:10
This show is about past life memories and whether science and philosophy can ever accommodate them.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 43:48
A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 47:28
Some acts of expression are awesome, while others suck, and one philosopher has a new theory about the difference. Using this theory as a guide, we...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 28:21
This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and musi...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 30:09
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 37:05
- Purchases: 1
We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 47:06
Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 48:08
Our ideas of manhood and womanhood determine the ways in which we raise and socialize our children, but how much does gender in a particular societ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 34:34
- Purchases: 2
One scientist decided to put the entire field of psychology to test to see how many of its findings hold up to scrutiny. At the same time, he had s...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 41:22
Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 44:02
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 46:14
As a new U.S. administration takes hold, with talk of new military action against ISIS in the Middle East, and the reinstatement of Bush-era tortur...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 45:50
Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 46:43
After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 42:40
A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 41:20
