Philosophy For Our Times

501 Episodes

1. Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich

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

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

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

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

   Published: 7/05/2025
6. Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism

   Published: 2/05/2025
7. The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple

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

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

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

    Published: 11/04/2025
11. The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner

    Published: 8/04/2025
12. Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg

    Published: 1/04/2025
13. The philosophy of geopolitics SPECIAL | Donald Trump, Homer's Odyssey, and Korean Web Novels

    Published: 28/03/2025
14. The philosophy of dehumanisation | David Livingstone Smith

    Published: 25/03/2025
15. Consciousness is quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff

    Published: 18/03/2025
16. Defending panpsychism | Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson

    Published: 14/03/2025
17. Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake

    Published: 11/03/2025
18. The consciousness test | Yoshua Bengio, Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, and Hilary Lawson

    Published: 4/03/2025
19. Longtermism SPECIAL: The next stage of effective altruism

    Published: 28/02/2025
20. The lure of Lucifer | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, and Stephen de Wijze

    Published: 25/02/2025