Is metaphysics just a bunch of nonsense? Is it okay to believe something you could never prove? Could logic be a solution to the world’s problems? This week on Philosophy Talk, we’re thinking about the Vienna Circle, a group of Austrian philosophers from the 1920s who debated these questions.
你听过多少次别人劝你放下过去?一旦你看到这些痛苦的、创伤性的经历结束了，你就应该实现了“结束”，可以“继续你的生活”。但是尝试着放下过去的经历并不是你能做到的。
One Sunday in the spring of 2007, John and I walked into the back room of KALW to find Ken singing. Back then I was both Ken’s PhD student and the director of research for Philosophy Talk, so it was always a treat to catch my advisor and boss being playful. He was coming up with different lyrics for Sinatra’s classic “Love and Marriage.”
哲学家是出了名的以一种干巴巴的，让我们面对它，无聊的方式表达自己。但这并不是研究哲学的唯一方法。有一些伟大的哲学故事让读者感到愉悦和参与，而不是让读者昏昏欲睡。
现在我们已经进入了2018年，我们中的许多人都想知道接下来的一年会发生什么。你、你的亲人、你的国家乃至整个世界会发生什么?似乎有很多可能性，有些是值得期待的，有些是令人恐惧的。