OpenCulture has some interesting (and free) philosophy stuff to listen to. I love this kind of stuff, and it transforms time in the car alone from a choreIt’s only really a chore if there’s traffic or if you’re driving a route you’ve driven millions of time before–if there’s anything novel about it you can always slip into the blue sky mind of the road trip. But with things like the “coming home” bit of taking your kid to day care, etc, there’s a lot of highly repetitive solo driving. into a chance to stretch your head. That’s always good.
Back in the early days of my road tripping I used to work my way through The Teaching Company‘s gigantic courses–the first was their philosophy survey. Of course, back then it was all on tape. These days you can fit thousands of hours of this stuff onto something not much larger than a two-dollar coin. And these days there’s rather of a lot free contentOf course if your ethics are arranged in certain ways you can also very easily get the non-free stuff for free these days as well. as well, like the above.