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PHILOSOPHY TALK with Ken Taylor and John Perry

PHILOSOPHY TALK is the only interactive radio show where listeners can discuss philosophic issues ranging from Socrates and Plato to truth and terrorism. This is the program that questions everything - except your intelligence!

Now in its fifth season, the weekly, nationally syndicated public radio show airs locally on KALW, 91.7FM and on stations around the country from New York to Oregon.

12:00 What is a Wife?
Wives have been around since Eve, and the concept of being a wife has been embedded in cultures, religious practices, social customs and economic patterns of wildly different sorts. Is there a core concept of what it is to be a wife? Is it a good concept, or one that deserves to be thrown on the junkpile of intellectual history -- like
the concept of a witch -- because it perpetrates corrosive stereotypes of women? What conceptions of being a wife do Americans have today? Join John and Ken as they discuss wives and the concept of being a wife with Marilyn Yalom, author of "A History of the Wife".

3:00 Faces, Feelings, and Lies
According to Proverbs, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But lies on human lips are as common as fleas on a dog. What is a lie? Are all untruths lies? Is lying always immoral? Do our faces inevitably betray our lies? Join the hosts as they uncover the concept, practice, and detection of lies with pioneering psychologist Paul Ekman, author of "Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life" and "Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage".