Philosophy For Our Times

517 Episodes

1. The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen

   Published: 20/08/2025
2. Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby

   Published: 12/08/2025
3. Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes

   Published: 05/08/2025
4. Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia

   Published: 29/07/2025
5. The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more

   Published: 25/07/2025
6. How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith

   Published: 22/07/2025
7. Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 13/05/2025