Philosophy For Our Times
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The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson
Jun 20, 202542 min
A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton
Jun 17, 202544 min
The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton
Jun 10, 202521 min
Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier
Jun 3, 202545 min
Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich
May 29, 202524 min
The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia
May 20, 202550 min
Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes
May 16, 202531 min
The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely
May 13, 202546 min
Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky
May 7, 202526 min
Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism
May 2, 202524 min
The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple
Apr 29, 202542 min
Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach
Apr 22, 202523 min
The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François
Apr 16, 202525 min
The price of everything, value of nothing | Politics series | Daniel Susskind, Abby Innes, Will Hutton, Richard Kibble
Apr 11, 202551 min
The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner
Apr 8, 202559 min
Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg
Apr 1, 202544 min
The philosophy of geopolitics SPECIAL | Donald Trump, Homer's Odyssey, and Korean Web Novels
Mar 28, 202543 min
The philosophy of dehumanisation | David Livingstone Smith
Mar 25, 202531 min
Consciousness is quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff
Mar 18, 202530 min
Defending panpsychism | Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson
Mar 14, 202525 min
Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake
Mar 11, 202531 min
The consciousness test | Yoshua Bengio, Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, and Hilary Lawson
Mar 4, 202550 min
Longtermism SPECIAL: The next stage of effective altruism
Feb 28, 202533 min
The lure of Lucifer | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, and Stephen de Wijze
Feb 25, 202537 min
The relationship between morality and power | Philosophers Tommy Curry, Michael Huemer, Melis Erdur
Feb 18, 20251h 4m
Humans are not morally superior | Alex O'Connor
Feb 14, 202527 min
Is morality human? | Peter Singer, Slavoj Žižek, Nancy Sherman
Feb 11, 202553 min
Nietzsche on overcoming nihilism | Philosopher Babette Babich
Feb 4, 202518 min
Ancient Philosophy SPECIAL | Plato's Gymnasium, Celebrity Messiahs, and Bronze Age Economics
Jan 31, 202531 min
Passion in ancient philosophy and religion | Former Archbishop Rowan Williams
Jan 28, 202536 min
The inner life of a stoic | Stoicism Series PART 5 | Massimo Pigliucci
Jan 21, 202524 min
The forgotten values of a stoic life | Stoicism Series PART 4 | Nancy Sherman
Jan 17, 202523 min
Stoicism for contemporary society | Stoicism Series PART 3 | Nancy Sherman
Jan 14, 202526 min
Ancient solutions for modern problems | Stoicism Series PART 2 | Massimo Pigliucci
Jan 10, 202520 min
Ancient solutions for modern problems | Stoicism Series PART 1 | Massimo Pigliucci
Jan 7, 202519 min
Ecstasy and philosophy: PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM |Philosopher Simon Critchley
Dec 31, 202451 min
The lost art of pilgrimage: PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM | Rupert Sheldrake
Dec 27, 202424 min
Nietzsche, Epicurus, and the Santa Claus lie | The philosophy of Christmas
Dec 24, 202428 min
The danger of self reflection | John Vervaeke, Isabel Millar, Frank Furedi and Joanna Kavenna
Dec 18, 202450 min
How important is rationality to humans? PART 2 | Stuart Hameroff, Subrena Smith, Paul Bloom
Dec 13, 202425 min
How important is rationality to humans? PART 1 | Stuart Hameroff, Subrena Smith, Paul Bloom
Dec 10, 202425 min
Challenging Peter Singer's Ethics
Dec 3, 202424 min
African Philosophy SPECIAL | Contemporary philosophers
Nov 29, 202450 min
The philosophy behind Thanksgiving | Property, Power, and Indigenous Land Rights
Nov 26, 202450 min
The philosophy of extinction (or of the end of the world)| Philosopher Ben Ware
Nov 19, 202430 min
God, science, and the natural world PART 2 | Philosopher Fiona Ellis
Nov 15, 202434 min
God, science, and the natural world PART 1 | Philosopher Fiona Ellis
Nov 12, 202433 min
Consciousness predates life | Stuart Hameroff
Nov 5, 202432 min
Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of monsters, magic, and mausoleums
Nov 1, 202433 min
The devil in all of us | Paul Bloom
Oct 29, 202429 min