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Philosophy For Our Times

Philosophy For Our Times

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Show overview

Philosophy For Our Times has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 550 episodes. That works out to roughly 320 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 27 min and 44 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 17 episodes already out so far this year.

Episodes
550
Running
2016–2026 · 10y
Median length
36 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.

Latest Episodes

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Human perception is imagination | Nadine Dijkstra

May 12, 202614 min

The brain filters consciousness | Alex Gomez-Marin

May 5, 202630 min

Overcoming evolution | Subrina Smith, Keith Frankish, Simon Baron-Cohen

Apr 28, 202645 min

Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past

Apr 21, 20261h 26m

How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa

Apr 14, 202648 min

A new theory of ethics | Martha Nussbaum

Apr 6, 202627 min

Crisis in the academy | Yaron Brook, Eric Kaufmann, Catherine Liui

Mar 31, 202646 min

Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes

Mar 24, 202625 min

On the nature of reality | Rowan Williams and Iain McGilchrist

Mar 17, 202633 min

Neighbours before strangers | Alain de Botton, Seyla Benhabib and Tommy Curry

Mar 10, 202650 min

The strange search for knowledge in the age of post-truth | Steve Fuller

Mar 3, 202628 min

The philosophy of performance | Michelle Terry

Feb 24, 202629 min

The end of materialism | Àlex Gómez-Marín

Feb 17, 202635 min

The relationship between mind and matter | Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Carlo Rovelli

Feb 10, 202650 min

Freedom and Fate

Jan 27, 202653 min

The search for higher states of consciousness | Philosopher Jessica Frazier

Jan 13, 202638 min

Should we be transgressive? The limits and potential of transgressiveness | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen

Jan 6, 202648 min

Perversity and the limits of rational | Psychologist Paul Bloom

Dec 30, 202522 min

Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress

Dec 16, 202536 min

Analytic or Continental philosophy | Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich

Dec 9, 202549 min
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