Philosophy For Our Times
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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
How Words Warp Reality | Nick Enfield
Dec 4, 202532 min
Consciousness and psychedelics: In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
Nov 28, 202531 min
The philosophy of religion and love with Alain de Botton and Alex O'Connor
Nov 25, 202526 min
Mazes of the mind: The philosophy of neuroscience | Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore, Bryan Appleyard
Nov 12, 202547 min
In search of nothing | David Deutsch, Amanda Gefter, Lee Smolin
Nov 6, 20251h 0m
Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of the apocalypse
Oct 31, 202544 min
The importance of giving up | Adam Phillips
Oct 28, 202527 min
Slavoj Žižek on philosophy today | The madness of reality
Oct 20, 202538 min
How to fathom timelessness | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Oct 14, 202531 min
After postmodernism | Hilary Lawson, Robin van den Akker, Abby Innes, Sophie Scott-Brown
Oct 10, 202547 min
The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič
Oct 6, 202529 min
The Enlightenment is racist (and why) | Kehinde Andrews
Sep 29, 202520 min
The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era
Sep 16, 202529 min
Psychedelics and the structure of reality | Julian Baggini, Eileen Hall, and James Rucker
Sep 12, 202546 min
The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?
Sep 9, 202548 min
A landscape of consciousness | Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Hilary Lawson
Sep 2, 202541 min
Will psychedelics revolutionize mental health treatment? | Matthew Johnson, Shayla Love, and Kevin Sabet
Aug 29, 202549 min
The illusion of separation | Jessica Frazier on the Monism of Hindu philosophy
Aug 26, 202524 min
The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen
Aug 20, 202527 min
Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby
Aug 12, 202540 min
Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes
Aug 5, 202541 min
Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia
Jul 29, 202527 min
The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more
Jul 25, 202544 min
How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith
Jul 22, 202521 min
Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom
Jul 15, 202527 min
More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz
Jul 11, 202518 min
The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn
Jul 8, 202543 min
Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio
Jul 2, 202530 min
The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments
Jun 27, 202545 min
Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer
Jun 24, 202522 min