Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Summary: Entitled Opinions is a literary talk show on Stanford University Radio, KZSU, in which Professor Robert Harrison interviews guests about issues that range from literature and philosophy to politics and sports.
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Podcasts:
December 2, 2015--A conversation with Eric Roberts on the past, present, and future of computer science education.
November 18, 2015--A conversation with scholar Marilyn Yalom on the history of female friendship.
November 11, 2015--A conversation with physicist-turned-social theorist Niklas Damiris on the history and philosophy of money.
November 4, 2015--A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson on the literary, philosophical, and religious figures who have most influenced her thought.
October 28, 2015--A conversation with Thomas Ryckman, philosopher of science at Stanford, on the significance of Einstein’s thought.
October 21, 2015--A conversation with Ruth Starkman, lecturer at Stanford and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, about Aristotle, virtue ethics, and friendship.
October 14, 2015--A conversation with Hans Sluga, professor of philosophy at UC-Berkeley, about his recent book on political life.
October 7, 2015--A conversation with Hans Sluga, professor of philosophy at UC-Berkeley, about the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
September 30, 2015--Entitled Opinions returns with a monologue on the WWI era American political thinker Randolph Bourne.
April 8, 2015--Entitled Opinions will be going on hiatus during the spring and summer of 2015 and will be back at some point in the fall.
June 20, 2014--A monologue by Robert Harrison on lightness and heaviness in art, inspired by Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
June 11, 2014--A conversation with Edward Feigenbaum, professor emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford, on artificial intelligence.
June 4, 2014--A conversation with Paul Rabinow, professor of Anthropology at Berkeley, on Foucault and the notion of "the contemporary".
May 28, 2014--A conversation with Jessica Merrill, Mellow Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford, on Russian Futurism.
May 21, 2014--A conversation with Monika Greenleaf, Stanford professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, on Dostoevsky and his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov.
