Philosophy For Our Times

511 Episodes

1. Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom

   Published: 15/07/2025
2. More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz

   Published: 11/07/2025
3. The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn

   Published: 08/07/2025
4. Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio

   Published: 02/07/2025
5. The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments

   Published: 27/06/2025
6. Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer

   Published: 24/06/2025
7. The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson

   Published: 20/06/2025
8. A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton

   Published: 17/06/2025
9. The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton

   Published: 10/06/2025
10. Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier

    Published: 03/06/2025
11. Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich

    Published: 29/05/2025
12. The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia

    Published: 20/05/2025
13. Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes

    Published: 16/05/2025
14. The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely

    Published: 13/05/2025
15. Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky

    Published: 07/05/2025
16. Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism

    Published: 02/05/2025
17. The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple

    Published: 29/04/2025
18. Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach

    Published: 22/04/2025
19. The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François

    Published: 16/04/2025
20. The price of everything, value of nothing | Politics series | Daniel Susskind, Abby Innes, Will Hutton, Richard Kibble

    Published: 11/04/2025