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Podcast Profile: Forum for Philosophy

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100 episodes
2020 to 2022

Collection: Philosophy

Description (podcaster-provided):

Science, politics, and culture from a philosophical perspective

Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Philosophy of science, politics, culture • ethics, rights, punishment • emotions: anger, grief, empathy • misinformation, expertise, science communication • mind, perception, logic • art, beauty, religion, comedy • animals, food, environment • travel, work, space, time

This podcast examines science, politics, and culture through philosophical discussion, typically by bringing together philosophers and other scholars to clarify concepts, probe assumptions, and connect abstract ideas to everyday life. Across the episodes, recurring topics in ethics and political philosophy include rights and their limits, health and medical expertise, punishment, anger, empathy, resilience, work, and the social consequences of misinformation and distrust. Several conversations focus on the philosophy of mind and human self-understanding, exploring themes such as grief, addiction, identity, imitation, and how modern ideas about the mind have developed.

The show also ranges widely across aesthetics and the humanities, considering comedy, beauty, music, fantasy, religious art, and the ways literature can illuminate philosophical problems; some installments take a book-club approach to major works of fiction. Another strand looks outward to the sciences and technology, addressing what scientific theories are, how science communication can misfire, and how speculative thinking in science fiction overlaps with philosophical inquiry. Questions about human–animal relations and moral status appear as part of broader reflection on ethics and our place in nature.

Alongside thematic discussions, the podcast includes profiles and conversations about influential twentieth-century thinkers—highlighting figures in analytic philosophy and the Vienna Circle, as well as major women philosophers—and occasionally offers interview-style episodes that mix intellectual biography with personal interests and research pathways.

Episodes:
A Right to Health?
2022-Feb-18
Punishment
2022-Feb-08
Anger
2022-Jan-25
Moritz Schlick | The Philosophers
2021-Dec-14
Food
2021-Dec-10
Silence
2021-Dec-08
Grief
2021-Nov-24
Simone de Beauvoir | The Philosophers
2021-Nov-17
Modern Conversations
2021-Nov-09
Outer Space
2021-Nov-02
Fake It Till You Make It
2021-Nov-01
What’s Wrong with Rights?
2021-Oct-26
Susan Stebbing | The Philosophers
2021-Oct-22
Addiction
2021-Oct-10
You Would Say That
2021-Aug-22
Out of the Vat: Lucy Campbell
2021-Aug-16
The Modern Mind
2021-Jun-15
The Philosopher Queens
2021-Jun-12
Fantasy
2021-Jun-08
Who’s a Good Boy?
2021-May-26
The Importance of Not Being Earnest
2021-May-18
The Human Paradox
2021-Apr-12
A Theory of Everything?
2021-Apr-06
Histories of Thinking | Logic
2021-Mar-30
Histories of Thinking | Philosophy
2021-Mar-24
Not Suitable for Work
2021-Mar-16
Resilience
2021-Mar-09
The Philosophers’ Book Club: Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich
2021-Mar-01
Spaced Out
2021-Feb-22
On the Road
2021-Feb-16
Misinformation
2021-Feb-02
Putting Practice into Theory
2021-Jan-28
Religious Art
2020-Dec-15
Science Fiction and Philosophy
2020-Dec-10
Mary Midgley and Why She Matters
2020-Nov-30
Talking about Not Talking (Carefully) about Science
2020-Nov-23
The Nature of Beauty
2020-Nov-17
Empathy
2020-Nov-10
The Musical Mind
2020-Nov-01
Anti-vaxxers and Other Sceptics
2020-Oct-27
The Philosophers’ Book Club: Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net
2020-Oct-18
On Time
2020-Oct-06
Out of the Vat: Brian Glenney
2020-Aug-12
Out of the Vat: Katherine Furman
2020-Jul-29
Out of the Vat: Richard Ashcroft
2020-Jul-21
Out of the Vat: Steven French
2020-Jul-14
Behind the Scenes
2020-Jun-17
From the vaults: Eating Animals
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Stewards of the Earth
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Animals
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Multiculturalism and Animal Ethics
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Invasive Species
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Artificial Meat
2020-Jun-09
From the vaults: Affirmative Action
2020-Jun-02
From the vaults: Prejudice
2020-Jun-02
From the Vaults: Frantz Fanon and Political Activism
2020-Jun-02
From the vault: The Philosophy of Race
2020-Jun-02
From the vaults: Is Political Violence Ever Justified?
2020-Jun-02
From the vaults: The Politics of Memorials
2020-Jun-02
From the vault: What Are Prisons For?
2020-May-26
From the vaults: Immigration Detention
2020-May-26
From the vaults: Who Is a Refugee?
2020-May-26
From the vaults: A Right to Be an Independent State?
2020-May-26
From the vaults: Sovereignty
2020-May-26
From the vault: A Right to Migrate?
2020-May-25
From the vaults: Being Alone
2020-May-19
From the vaults: Immortality
2020-May-19
From the vaults: Feminism
2020-May-19
From the vaults: The Good Life
2020-May-19
From the vaults: Sleep
2020-May-19
From the vaults: The Self
2020-May-19
From the vaults: Protest Art
2020-May-12
From the vaults: A Right to Be Believed?
2020-May-12
From the Vaults: Streaming Consciousness
2020-May-12
From the vaults: Anatomy of a Language
2020-May-12
From the vaults: Reason and Rhetoric
2020-May-12
From the vaults: Bad Language
2020-May-12
From the vaults: Parallel Universes
2020-May-05
From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science
2020-May-05
From the Vaults: The Trouble with Numbers
2020-May-05
From the Vaults: Chaos
2020-May-05
From the Vaults: Time Travel
2020-May-05
From the vaults: Black Holes
2020-May-05
From the vaults: Strong Feelings
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Prejudice
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Unrequited Love
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Shame
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Hypocrisy
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Guilt
2020-Apr-28
From the vaults: Aristotle
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: The Irish Enlightenment
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: Existentialism
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: Darwin
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: Reason
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: Pragmatism
2020-Apr-22
From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering?
2020-Apr-14
From the vaults: The Politics of Mental Health
2020-Apr-14
From the vaults: Philosophy and Psychiatry
2020-Apr-14
From the vaults: Thinking about Children’s Mental Health
2020-Apr-14
From the vaults: Philosophy as Therapy?
2020-Apr-14