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Podcast Profile: Philosophy For Our Times

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574 episodes
2016 to 2026
Median: 35 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast presents recorded talks, interviews, and debates with prominent philosophers, scientists, and public intellectuals on contemporary questions in philosophy and public life. Across the episodes, recurring attention is given to how we should understand reason and rationality in an era shaped by polarization, “post-truth” dynamics, and the persuasive power of language. Several conversations examine what counts as knowledge, whether expertise and institutions still command trust, and how intellectual traditions within philosophy—such as the analytic/continental divide and the legacy of the Enlightenment—are evolving under cultural and political pressure.

A major through-line is the nature of mind and consciousness. The show repeatedly returns to disputes over materialism, reductionism, idealism, and dualism; the philosophical implications of neuroscience; and what emerging technologies might mean for personhood. Topics include AI and creativity, machine consciousness, mind uploading, and whether the brain produces consciousness or filters it. Related episodes explore perception and imagination, near-death and anomalous experiences, and altered states linked to psychedelics, alongside questions about timelessness, unity, and spiritual or religious perspectives.

Political and ethical themes are also central. Discussions address liberalism’s perceived crisis, populism and nationalism, immigration and moral partiality, gender politics, and the health of universities and academic freedom. Ethical inquiry extends to responsibility and free will, the role of transgression in social change, conceptions of the good life, and animal ethics and suffering. Overall, the podcast connects classic philosophical problems to live debates in science, culture, and politics.

Episodes:

The Enlightenment Under Fire | John Gray 2026-Nov-03 32 minutes

From Life | Tom Overton on John Berger 2026-Oct-27 61 minutes

Blue Labour | Maurice Glasman 2026-Oct-13 24 minutes

Evidence in the Dock | Nick Enfield, Timothy Williamson, Genia Schönbaumsfeld 2026-Oct-13 46 minutes

Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky 2025-May-07 26 minutes

What Is Justice? | Sarah Langford 2019-Feb-19 24 minutes

Was Max Planck right about consciousness? | Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Amanda Gefter and Laura Mersini-Houghton 2021-Oct-19 44 minutes

Will science crack the mystery of consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Patricia Churchland, Carlo Rovelli 2022-Dec-13 53 minutes

The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn 2025-Jul-08 43 minutes

Mazes of the mind: The philosophy of neuroscience | Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore, Bryan Appleyard 2025-Nov-12 47 minutes

The price of everything, value of nothing | Politics series | Daniel Susskind, Abby Innes, Will Hutton, Richard Kibble 2025-Apr-11 51 minutes

Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back? | Barry Smith, Maria Balaska, Hilary Lawson 2023-Feb-21 46 minutes

Is our metaphysics beholden to common sense? | Fragments and reality with Michael Della Rocca, Timothy Maudlin, Kathleen Higgins 2024-Jul-09 42 minutes

Do we Need Romance to be Happy? | Bella DePaulo, Anders Sandberg, Heidi Rice 2019-Feb-12 33 minutes

Is morality human? | Peter Singer, Slavoj Žižek, Nancy Sherman 2025-Feb-11 53 minutes

Philosophy Vs Quantum Theory | Tim Maudlin 2020-Feb-25 20 minutes

Can we make sense of the cosmos? | Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson in conversation 2023-Dec-26 18 minutes

The forgotten values of a stoic life | Stoicism Series PART 4 | Nancy Sherman 2025-Jan-17 23 minutes

Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom 2025-Jul-15 27 minutes

The nature of evil PART ONE | Mike Figgis, Robert Eaglestone, Joanna Kavenna 2024-Jul-30 19 minutes

The Tyranny of Evidence | Rupert Read 2018-Jul-17 21 minutes

The brain filters consciousness | Alex Gomez-Marin 2026-May-05 30 minutes

The Problem with Materialism | John Ellis, Susan Blackmore, Hilary Lawson 2019-Apr-09 49 minutes

Who We Are | Diane Abbott, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kemi Badenoch, Richard Reeves 2018-Nov-20 33 minutes

On the edges of knowledge | Michael Shermer vs Rupert Sheldrake 2023-Dec-12 39 minutes

Bonus Episode: The Philosophy Of Being A Woman | International Women's Day 2018 2018-Mar-08 18 minutes

The happiness delusion | Aaron Bastani, Paul Dolan, Joanna Kavenna 2023-Jun-06 43 minutes

The new renaissance | Sophie Scott-Brown, David Aaronovitch, John Ellis 2023-Oct-10 44 minutes

The Weird and the Wonderful: Eileen Barker, Ariane Sherine, Phil Rickman 2018-Apr-24 34 minutes

The Emperor's New Genes | Dennis Noble, Anne Bowcock, Rupert Sheldrake 2017-Mar-21 46 minutes

Is nature the new god? | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Tim Palmer and Melanie Challenger 2022-Aug-03 42 minutes

Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg 2025-Apr-01 44 minutes

Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein 2020-Mar-03 27 minutes

The Mystery of Life | Nick Lane, Monica Grady, Ralph Cordey 2019-Nov-05 45 minutes

What happens to our bodies after we die? | Brooke Magnati 2018-May-08 28 minutes

Are we looking at life wrong? | Daniel Dennett, Sara Walker, Nick Lane 2021-Mar-23 46 minutes

A Philosopher’s Duty? | Julian Baggini 2020-Sep-15 25 minutes

How To Do Philosophy and Why | Timothy Williamson 2020-Feb-11 21 minutes

The Dark and the Digital | Nigel Inkster, Ella Whelan, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Janne Teller 2019-Dec-10 36 minutes

Science, Sex and Stereotypes | Helena Cronin 2018-Mar-20 25 minutes

Doing Right And Feeling Good | Anders Sandberg, Simon Baron-Cohen, Peter Dews 2016-Sep-22 46 minutes

Challenging Peter Singer's Ethics 2024-Dec-03 24 minutes

The New Moralism | Matthew Taylor, Rebecca Roache, Hilary Lawson 2019-Oct-22 38 minutes

The infidelity of beliefs | Graham Harman, Hilary Lawson, Anandi Hattiangadi 2021-Jul-27 36 minutes

The Myth of the Self | Julian Baggini, Angie Hobbs, John Milbank 2020-Mar-10 42 minutes

The world after reality | Hilary Lawson 2023-Mar-07 30 minutes

Mind-body dualism and being transgender | Sophie Grace Chappell 2024-Mar-12 27 minutes

Psychedelics and the Birth of Philosophy | Brian Muraresku 2021-Apr-27 31 minutes

Why Choice is Not an Illusion | Raymond Tallis 2020-Oct-20 30 minutes

Understanding String Theory | James Ladyman 2017-Nov-28 25 minutes

Love Incorporated | Catherine Hakim, Mark Salter, Richard Coles 2016-Oct-27 50 minutes

Thinking Across the World | Julian Baggini 2019-Feb-26 32 minutes

Writing the self | Meg Rosoff 2022-Dec-06 11 minutes

After Buddhism | Stephen Batchelor 2017-Sep-19 20 minutes

Monsters of pantheism| Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2022-Sep-13 28 minutes

Material girls - philosophies of gender | Kathleen Stock 2023-Jul-25 23 minutes

Truth and Scientific Progress | Nancy Cartwright 2020-Aug-04 24 minutes

Do we really experience reality? | Graham Harman, Donald Hoffman & Mazviita Chirimuuta 2021-May-25 41 minutes

Stoicism for contemporary society | Stoicism Series PART 3 | Nancy Sherman 2025-Jan-14 26 minutes

Bonus Episode | The Death Of God And The War On Terror | Terry Eagleton 2018-Apr-26 33 minutes

Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress 2025-Dec-16 36 minutes

Against Meritocracy | Kwame Anthony Appiah 2018-Sep-19 23 minutes

Trump's Foreign Policy | George Galloway, Mark Leonard 2019-May-07 43 minutes

Can lying ever be justified? | Helen Lederer, James Mahon, Mark Salter 2017-Nov-21 32 minutes

How To Traverse Time | Peter Sjöstedt-H 2021-Feb-16 33 minutes

The consciousness test | Yoshua Bengio, Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, and Hilary Lawson 2025-Mar-04 50 minutes

The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more 2025-Jul-25 44 minutes

African Philosophy SPECIAL | Contemporary philosophers 2024-Nov-29 50 minutes

Are we right about atheism? | Julian Baggini 2022-Jun-28 31 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on philosophy today | The madness of reality 2025-Oct-20 38 minutes

Philosophy's psychedelic renaissance |Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes 2022-May-31 29 minutes

Fires of Progress | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican 2019-Jan-22 35 minutes

Islands and the Anthropocene | David Chandler 2021-Oct-12 25 minutes

Leadership in the Age of Trump | Jess Phillips, Jon Barnes, Tania Branigan 2019-Mar-05 43 minutes

A Philosophy of Fashion | Shahidha Bari 2020-Jan-14 28 minutes

Demons of materialism | James Tartaglia 2022-Jun-14 16 minutes

What Is Beauty? From Plato to Kim Kardashian | Bence Nanay, Justine Kolata, Sam Roddick 2019-May-14 42 minutes

More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz 2025-Jul-11 18 minutes

ŽIŽEK on surplus happiness | The false joy of excess 2024-Jul-25 33 minutes

New Gods | Myriam François, Peter Atkins, Hilary Lawson 2020-Mar-31 50 minutes

The Crisis of the West | Gita Sahgal, Philip Collins, Kwasi Kwarteng 2016-Sep-29 50 minutes

The God desire| David Baddiel 2024-Feb-27 31 minutes

The Vital Statistics | Helena Cronin 2017-Aug-09 23 minutes

Evolution After Darwin | Massimo Pigliucci, Zanna Clay, Tim Lewens 2019-Sep-03 41 minutes

Is the biological self a delusion? | JohnJoe McFadden, Ane Ogbe, Peter Brodin 2023-Jan-24 44 minutes

Ancient traits in a modern world | Sunetra Gupta, Anders Sandberg, Subrena Smith 2023-Nov-14 54 minutes

The secret history of cool | Joel Dinerstein 2026-Aug-25 29 minutes

The Necessity of Morality | Justin Smith, Jason Alexander McKenzie, Barry C. Smith 2019-Aug-27 43 minutes

A World of Illusions | Jan Westerhoff 2020-Aug-25 17 minutes

What is the Future of Art? | Don Paterson, Dylan Evans, Julian Stallabrass 2018-May-15 33 minutes

Building the Future, Remembering the Past | Peter Tatchell 2021-Jan-19 22 minutes

Is Science The Only Way To Truth? | Rosie Harper, Peter Atkins, Steve Fuller 2018-Jan-30 33 minutes

The Cult of Mindfulness | Vishpani Blomfield, Linda Woodhead, Miguel Farias 2019-Apr-16 32 minutes

The Right Way to Think | Paul Boghossian, Mary Jane Rubenstein, Alister McGrath 2019-Jul-02 38 minutes

The truth about consciousness | Anil Seth 2022-Feb-22 16 minutes

A guide to parenting in the digital age | Melanie Challenger 2022-Mar-08 25 minutes

A rule to live by | Peter Singer, Daniel Markovits, Carol Gilligan 2024-May-07 47 minutes

The Secrets Of Consciousness | Philip Goff, Nicholas Humphrey, Susan Blackmore 2018-Oct-01 37 minutes

Why we should question everything | Michael Della Rocca on radical philosophy 2024-Mar-26 16 minutes

In conversation with Slavoj Žižek: Life and philosophy 2024-Feb-06 30 minutes

Are You An Illusion? | Julian Baggini, Joanna Kavenna, Jan Westerhoff, Silvia Jonas 2019-Jul-23 43 minutes

The End of the West | Linda Yueh, Rana Mitter, David Aaronovitch 2019-Dec-17 41 minutes

How To Spot An Emergency | Santiago Zabala 2021-Jan-12 14 minutes

The Problem with Paradoxes | Slavoj Žižek, Sophie Allen, Hilary Lawson 2019-Dec-24 36 minutes

The Good Fight | Charlotte Leslie 2017-Aug-11 18 minutes

Are Hospitals Bad For Us? | Diane Abbott, Natalie Bennett, David Healy, Mark Salter 2018-Jan-02 28 minutes

The Word And The World | Paul Boghossian, Joanna Kavenna, Ray Monk 2016-Sep-04 48 minutes

The Future of Human Enhancement | Anders Sandberg, Richard Morgan, Nicky Ashwell 2017-Jan-03 28 minutes

How philosophy got lost | Slavoj Zizek 2023-Aug-29 37 minutes

What do we really know? | Renata Salecl, Philip Goff & Simon Blackburn 2020-Sep-29 43 minutes

Nietzsche on overcoming nihilism | Philosopher Babette Babich 2025-Feb-04 18 minutes

Martyrdom and Sacrifice |Terry Eagleton 2020-Sep-22 17 minutes

After Evolution | Oliver Scott Curry, Daniel Everett, Janet Radcliffe Richards 2018-May-01 30 minutes

In Search of Freedom | Julian Baggini, Paul Broks, Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson 2019-Nov-26 34 minutes

In Defense of Pornography | Peter Tatchell 2018-Feb-22 24 minutes

The Perception Bias | Daniel Kahneman, Ellen Langer, Hilary Lawson 2024-Jun-04 59 minutes

Knowing Others And Knowing Oneself | Robert Eaglestone, Anita Avramides, Nicholas Humphrey 2018-Jan-16 34 minutes

Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H 2021-Aug-24 45 minutes

Reaching for Truth | David Aaronovitch, Asa Wikforss, Santiago Zabala 2021-May-04 41 minutes

Bonus Episode: The Rojava Revolution | Elif Sarican 2018-Jun-11 9 minutes

The new 10 commandments | Massimo Pigliucci, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sophie Grace Chapel 2023-Jul-04 43 minutes

God, science, and the natural world PART 1 | Philosopher Fiona Ellis 2024-Nov-12 33 minutes

Reshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders Sandberg 2021-Mar-30 46 minutes

Tale of Love and Hate | Rowan Williams, Renata Salecl, Robert Rowland Smith 2018-Nov-06 36 minutes

The AI Revolution | Nigel Shadbolt 2018-Oct-15 9 minutes

Mysteries of the Mind | Markus Gabriel 2020-May-12 28 minutes

Blind Data | Steve Carter 2017-May-09 33 minutes

Should We Live Forever? | Patricia MacCormack, Anders Sandberg, Janne Teller 2019-Apr-02 42 minutes

The mind is not a machine | Iain McGilchrist 2026-Jul-21 21 minutes

Why Are Humans Monogamous? | Kit Opie 2017-Oct-31 20 minutes

Dreamland | Oliver Burkeman, Helen Lederer, Erwin James 2017-Aug-02 41 minutes

Beyond Us: Bonus Review 2021-Apr-16 46 minutes

Reason And The Gods | Myriam Francois, Anthony Gottlieb, Linda Woodhead 2018-Oct-03 42 minutes

Compassion and Community | Dan Zahavi 2021-Feb-23 30 minutes

Tribal Identity and Tribal Conflict | David Blunkett, Dawn Butler, Phillip Blond 2019-Nov-19 43 minutes

The world after liberalism | Maurice Glasman & Sohrab Amari 2026-Jun-30 32 minutes

Gravity | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Erik Verlinde, Frank Wilczek 2017-Apr-06 40 minutes

The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real? 2025-Sep-09 48 minutes

Changing the Love Narrative | Martha Fiennes, Chris Sherwood, Shahida Bari 2018-Feb-13 33 minutes

Bonus Episode: Tribute to Mary Midgley 2018-Oct-18 42 minutes

How Words Warp Reality | Nick Enfield 2025-Dec-04 32 minutes

Into the Unknown | Martin Rees, Tony Milligan, Elizabeth Seward 2019-Oct-15 35 minutes

The Morality of the Left and Right | Peter Hitchens, Sophie Walker, Chris Bryant 2019-May-29 42 minutes

Can wireheading cause real pleasure | Anders Sandberg 2021-Aug-31 28 minutes

Was Nietzsche right about meaning? | Rupert Sheldrake, James Tartaglia, Maria Balaska 2022-Feb-01 44 minutes

Ecstasy and philosophy: PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM |Philosopher Simon Critchley 2024-Dec-31 51 minutes

Dostoevsky vs Nietzsche | Kathleen Higgins, Janne Teller, Oliver Ready 2024-Mar-05 43 minutes

What it means to be human | Raymond Tallis 2021-Sep-28 16 minutes

Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson 2022-Jul-12 18 minutes

Do our lives tell a story? | Sophie Fiennes, David Hare, Janne Teller 2023-Jun-20 49 minutes

The AI hoax | Mazviita Chirimuuta 2023-Mar-01 23 minutes

When science meets philosophy | Philip Goff, Julian Baggini, Peter Atkins, Güneş Taylor 2022-May-17 45 minutes

The Dark Side of the Universe | Erik Verlinde, Catherine Heymans, Sabine Hossenfelder 2019-Jun-04 39 minutes

Does life have meaning? PART 3: Nolen Gertz on nihilism part one 2024-Aug-20 14 minutes

The Future of Pornography | Brooke Magnanti, Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell 2019-Mar-26 43 minutes

Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism 2025-May-02 24 minutes

Knowledge Resistance | Åsa Wikforss 2020-May-19 11 minutes

Metaphysics and science: do we need both? PART 2 | Eric Weinstein, Becky Parker, Hilary Lawson 2024-Aug-31 26 minutes

Greater than Equal | Theodore Dalrymple, Sophie Walker, Helena Cronin 2018-Mar-27 34 minutes

The philosophy of religion and love with Alain de Botton and Alex O'Connor 2025-Nov-25 26 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on chaos and the modern world - PART 1 2024-Sep-10 21 minutes

The nature of evil PART TWO | Mike Figgis, Robert Eaglestone, Joanna Kavenna 2024-Aug-02 17 minutes

Overcoming Individualism | Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2021-Jan-26 29 minutes

The world beyond what we see | Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson and Matthew D'Ancona 2021-Jun-29 35 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on chaos and the modern world - PART 2 2024-Sep-13 15 minutes

The New Enlightenment | Julian Baggini, Amie Thomasson, Hilary Lawson 2019-Mar-19 36 minutes

The relationship between morality and power | Philosophers Tommy Curry, Michael Huemer, Melis Erdur 2025-Feb-18 64 minutes

Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor 2022-Dec-27 33 minutes

Corruption and Climate Change | Piers Corbyn 2018-Jul-06 25 minutes

Can experiments settle the free will debate? | Julian Baggini, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sarah Garfinkel 2023-May-23 51 minutes

Panpsychism to the rescue | Philip Goff 2020-Aug-18 32 minutes

Leadership, hypocrisy and power | Joseph J. Ellis, Chris Hirst & Natalie Bennett 2021-Jul-13 47 minutes

The Margins of Language | Stanley Fish, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Hilary Lawson 2020-Jun-02 41 minutes

The Dance Of Life | David Chalmers, Susana Martinez-Conde, Peter Hacker 2016-Sep-13 42 minutes

In search of the 'Self' | David Chalmers, Ed Stafford, Joanna Kavenna 2024-Oct-24 28 minutes

Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake 2025-Mar-11 31 minutes

The Right To Offend | David Aaronovitch, Joanna Williams, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 2019-Sep-24 37 minutes

After the End of Truth | John Searle, Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson 2016-Aug-31 43 minutes

How to be a sceptic | Massimo Pigliucci 2023-May-02 27 minutes

Bonus Episode: The Philosophy of Action 2018-Jun-15 25 minutes

Love Is the Drug | Anders Sandberg 2018-Feb-06 24 minutes

Is moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah Garfinkel 2022-Oct-25 43 minutes

Eternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry Smith 2016-Oct-13 42 minutes

What is consciousness? PART 2 | Iain Mcgilchrist, Roger Penrose and Steve Fuller 2024-Sep-27 14 minutes

The Rise and Fall of Sex | Daphna Joel, Barry Barnes, Stuart Ritchie 2019-Nov-12 36 minutes

Catching Sight of Our Self | Iain McGilchrist, Betty Sue Flowers, Anil Ananthaswamy, and Bence Nanay 2023-Feb-07 49 minutes

A world of illusions | James Ladyman, Peter Atkins, Joanna Kavenna 2022-Aug-30 45 minutes

Beyond the boundary | Lisa Miller, Nick Lane, Paul Bickley 2023-Sep-25 47 minutes

Consciousness - a science or a philosophy? | Avshalom Elitzur 2024-Jun-11 35 minutes

Philosophy's linguistic turn: Was it a mistake? | Hilary Lawson, Michael Potter, John Searle 2024-Jun-25 42 minutes

How to Save Conscious Life on Earth | Susan Schneider 2021-Mar-09 34 minutes

Human perception is imagination | Nadine Dijkstra 2026-May-12 14 minutes

Is Sexuality a Vehicle For Power? | Minna Salami, Rowan Pelling, Julia Long 2019-Dec-31 38 minutes

Philosophers vs Post-Truth | Homi Bhabha, Rebecca Goldstein, Hilary Lawson 2020-Jan-21 48 minutes

The Enlightenment is racist (and why) | Kehinde Andrews 2025-Sep-29 20 minutes

Can we distinguish truth from lies? | Sacha Golob, Steve Fuller, Åsa Wikforss, Peter Pomerantsev 2020-Apr-08 45 minutes

The Digital Revolution | Interview with Jon Barnes 2019-Mar-01 10 minutes

Truth, delusion, and psychedelic reality | Eileen Hall, Julian Baggini, James Rucker 2023-Aug-15 47 minutes

The Fractured Mind | Bence Nanay 2018-Jun-26 23 minutes

On the nature of reality | Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams 2024-Jan-23 31 minutes

Ancient solutions for modern problems | Stoicism Series PART 2 | Massimo Pigliucci 2025-Jan-10 20 minutes

Are we predisposed to catastrophise? | Elise Valmorbida, Meg Rosoff and Nick Zangwill 2022-Oct-18 46 minutes

Being ourselves and being with others | Janne Teller, Stefan Priebe, Sophie Ward 2023-Jul-18 43 minutes

Free Will Worth Wanting |Daniel Dennett, Helen Steward, Patrick Haggard 2020-Oct-27 45 minutes

Owning our Bodies | Anne Phillips, John Harris, Brooke Magnanti 2016-Dec-20 28 minutes

Humanity's Distant Future | Anders Sandberg 2020-Jul-28 18 minutes

Materialism Deconstructed| Bernardo Kastrup, Nancy Cartwright, Peter Atkins 2020-Oct-13 49 minutes

How to be a Stoic | Massimo Pigliucci 2020-Jan-07 41 minutes

Missing Evidence | Tara Shears, Rupert Sheldrake, Massimo Pigliucci 2016-Nov-17 47 minutes

Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia 2025-Jul-29 27 minutes

The Rise and Fall of Ideologies | Rory Stewart, Grace Blakeley, Michael Sandel 2021-Feb-02 57 minutes

The lost art of pilgrimage: PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM | Rupert Sheldrake 2024-Dec-27 24 minutes

The Shame Game | Robin Ince, John Milbank, Helen Croydon 2017-Aug-08 39 minutes

More than a theory | Sabine Hossenfelder, Bjørn Ekeberg, Sam Henry 2021-Dec-21 47 minutes

The limits and potential of transgressiveness | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen 2026-Jan-06 48 minutes

Morality Before Metaphysics | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, Joanna Kavenna 2020-Dec-08 48 minutes

Anxiety and the soul's itch | Sarah Wilson 2026-Jul-14 26 minutes

Permissivism and Irrelevant Influences | Miriam Schoenfield 2026-Sep-29 22 minutes

Out of the apocalypse | Sophie Fiennes, Patricia MacCormack, Robert Rowland Smith 2018-Jul-24 36 minutes

The Good, the Bad and the Artist | Stanley Fish, Emma Sulkowicz, Nell Stevens, John Harvey 2018-Oct-30 45 minutes

Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes 2026-Mar-24 25 minutes

The philosophy of performance | Michelle Terry 2026-Feb-24 29 minutes

Passion in ancient philosophy and religion | Former Archbishop Rowan Williams 2025-Jan-28 36 minutes

Do we need technological progress? | Kenneth Cukier, Nolen Gertz, Caitjan Gainty 2023-Apr-04 47 minutes

The enlightenment and its alternatives | John Mearsheimer, Steven Pinker 2024-Mar-19 52 minutes

The Future of Thought | Julian Baggini, Vivienne Shue, Jamie Whyte 2019-Dec-03 34 minutes

Did consciousness evolve? | Donald Hoffman, Iain McGilchrist, Eva Jablonka and Michelle Montague 2022-Oct-11 52 minutes

Epiphanies, Experiences, and Ethics | Sophie-Grace Chappell 2020-Jul-21 39 minutes

How To Live In The Moment | Robert Eaglestone, Sam Roddick, Peter York 2018-Jan-25 35 minutes

Experiencing The World | Annaka Harris, Hilary Lawson, Reza Negarestani, Bernardo Kastrup 2021-Mar-02 59 minutes

Bonus Episode: Q&A With David Nutt | LSD, Cannabis and Mental Health 2018-Jun-12 10 minutes

The mystery of emergence | Suchitra Sebastian, Philip Goff, Hilary Lawson 2024-May-14 49 minutes

Big Bang Creation Myths | Sean Carroll, Roger Penrose, Laura Mersini-Houghton 2019-Jan-15 38 minutes

Do We Really Want To Save The World? | Vince Cable, Aaron Bastani, Emma Slade, John Zerzan 2020-Nov-10 59 minutes

The return of idealism | James Tartaglia 2026-Jun-09 28 minutes

Free will is not an illusion | Denis Noble 2023-Nov-07 27 minutes

Green Growth | Natalie Bennett 2018-Jul-31 15 minutes

Life On The Edge | Sebastian Farquhar 2017-Aug-23 32 minutes

The quest for reason | Alister McGrath 2022-Nov-22 13 minutes

The Evolution of Suicide | Nicholas Humphreys 2018-Nov-13 24 minutes

The Dark Side of the Universe | Erik Verlinde, Michael Duff, Massimo Pigliucci 2016-Oct-20 45 minutes

A world by any other name | Arif Ahmed, Ruth Kempson, Hilary Lawson 2023-Aug-01 43 minutes

Where language fails us | Kehinde Andrews, John McWhorter and Laurie Ann Paul 2022-Sep-27 43 minutes

How to find and make sense of happiness | Paul Dolan 2023-Aug-22 22 minutes

The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič 2025-Oct-06 29 minutes

What we Cannot Know | Marcus du Sautoy 2017-Sep-12 27 minutes

Perversity and the limits of rational | Psychologist Paul Bloom 2025-Dec-30 22 minutes

Humans' tendency for irrationality | Dan Ariely 2024-Apr-30 30 minutes

Taking leave of reason | Joanna Kavenna, Rory Sutherland, Rebecca Roache 2023-Nov-28 45 minutes

The limits of knowledge | Rupert Sheldrake, Suchitra Sebastian, Tommy Curry 2024-Jan-02 41 minutes

The key to consciousness | Donald Hoffman, Hannah Critchlow, Sam Coleman 2023-May-30 42 minutes

Is the sun conscious? | Rupert Sheldrake 2018-Apr-17 23 minutes

The devil in all of us | Paul Bloom 2024-Oct-29 29 minutes

Lost in Language | Saul Kripke, Hilary Lawson, Paul Boghossian, Silvia Jonas 2019-Aug-06 42 minutes

If it doesn't kill you | Susie Orbach, Anders Sandberg, and Havl Carel 2022-Oct-04 45 minutes

A Tribal World | Julie Bindel, Brendan O'Neill, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Glendinning 2017-Feb-28 46 minutes

Philosophy of the senses | Philosopher Barry C. Smith 2024-Sep-03 25 minutes

Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently | Angie Hobbs, Adrian Moore, Mark Vernon 2017-Jan-17 45 minutes

The end of good and evil | Slavoj Žižek, Maria Balaska, Rowan Williams, Richard Wrangham 2024-Jan-09 55 minutes

A Philosopher's Guide to Being Happy | David Pearce 2021-Jun-01 21 minutes

The end of materialism | Àlex Gómez-Marín 2026-Feb-17 35 minutes

How important is rationality to humans? PART 2 | Stuart Hameroff, Subrena Smith, Paul Bloom 2024-Dec-13 25 minutes

The Good, The Bad And The Unknown | Gita Sahgal, David Owens, Sebastian Farquhar 2017-Oct-17 19 minutes

The philosophy of geopolitics SPECIAL | Donald Trump, Homer's Odyssey, and Korean Web Novels 2025-Mar-28 43 minutes

Do we need relationships? | Helen Croydon, Kit Opie, Susan Quilliam 2018-Feb-27 25 minutes

Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff 2023-Mar-21 26 minutes

The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson 2025-Jun-20 42 minutes

What is consciousness? PART 1 | Iain Mcgilchrist, Roger Penrose and Steve Fuller 2024-Sep-25 14 minutes

The story of reality | Sophie Fiennes, Betty Sue Flowers, Noel Carroll 2021-Oct-05 49 minutes

Does life have meaning? PART 2: Rob Boddice on the happiness crisis 2024-Aug-14 29 minutes

The case for virtuous virtue signalling | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Crystal Fleming, David Goodhart 2021-Sep-14 43 minutes

A Mad World | Richard Bentall, Ann John, Lucy Johnstone 2019-Oct-29 39 minutes

The Fascination With Evil | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, Stephen de Wijze 2019-Jul-09 35 minutes

Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn 2023-Mar-14 48 minutes

Power and Philosophy: East vs West |Julian Baggini, Jamie Whyte, Vivienne Shue 2020-Aug-11 37 minutes

How Men And Women Think | Gina Rippon, Simon Baron-Cohen, Helena Cronin 2016-Nov-10 32 minutes

Playing with fire | Beverly Taylor, Ella Whelan and Lawrence Phillips 2021-Oct-26 43 minutes

Truth, Science and the Universe | Peter Atkins, Sophia Roosth, Tim Lewens 2019-Feb-05 37 minutes

The trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark Salter 2022-Nov-15 44 minutes

How to use philosophy for a better life | Rebecca Roache 2023-Jan-03 23 minutes

Defending panpsychism | Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson 2025-Mar-14 25 minutes

The search for higher states of consciousness | Philosopher Jessica Frazier 2026-Jan-13 38 minutes

The post-natural world of tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari, Slavoj Žižek 2022-Aug-24 46 minutes

Me, my world and I | Barry Smith, Hannah Critchlow, Gary Lachman 2023-Oct-31 57 minutes

Computing the mind | Kenneth Cukier, Joanna Bryson, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes 2022-May-24 33 minutes

Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier 2025-Jun-03 45 minutes

Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich 2025-May-29 24 minutes

Beyond Men and Women | Finn Mackay, Angela Eagle, Patricia MacCormack 2018-Aug-28 33 minutes

Consciousness Beyond Time | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Paul Davies, Craig Callender, Hilary Lawson 2021-Sep-07 47 minutes

Is Morality Rooted In Culture? | Joel Robbins 2020-Feb-18 42 minutes

The power of ritual in the modern world | Noel Carroll, Hannah Dawson, Linda Woodhead 2022-Mar-01 39 minutes

The Limits of Freedom | Claire Fox, Julian Le Grand, Theodore Dalrymple 2017-Mar-14 33 minutes

How Maths Changed Philosophy | Silvia Jonas 2020-Jan-28 26 minutes

The Prejudice of Facts | Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna, John Ellis 2019-Sep-17 37 minutes

The making of reality | Hilary Lawson 2023-Jun-27 19 minutes

Are facts trustworthy? |Simon Blackburn, Sophie Grace Chappell and Anandi Hattiangadi 2022-Sep-06 45 minutes

Morality and Humanity | Simone Schnall, Joel Robbins, Rae Langton 2020-Jun-16 42 minutes

The knowledge delusion | Santiago Zabala, Corine Besson, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2022-Nov-08 50 minutes

Truth, beauty and other misconceptions | Lisa Randall 2026-Jul-07 22 minutes

On humans and animals | Peter Singer, Mary Midgley 2024-Apr-09 37 minutes

Did hunter-gatherers have a better life? | Mark Williams, Peter Lilley, Natalie Bennett 2022-Dec-20 45 minutes

The ignorance of experts |Julian Baggini, Ellen Clarke, Ben Burgis 2023-Oct-03 45 minutes

Consciousness and the limits of science PART 2 | Sean Carroll, Ellen Langer, and Tamar Gendler 2024-Oct-18 27 minutes

Rational Animals | Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahneman, Shami Chakrabarti 2020-Nov-03 45 minutes

Rebalancing the global order | Kishore Mahbubani 2026-Aug-18 33 minutes

Could Sex Robots Be Good For Us? | Kate Devlin 2017-Dec-12 22 minutes

Reality and Evolution | Donald Hoffman 2020-Jun-30 41 minutes

How to fathom timelessness | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes 2025-Oct-14 31 minutes

Bonus Episode: In Conversation with Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson 2019-Aug-29 23 minutes

The Ancient Indian Roots of Consciousness | Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2020-Sep-01 29 minutes

Unnatural Laws | Nancy Cartwright, John Ellis, Rupert Sheldrake 2016-Sep-07 43 minutes

Beyond Us: Language with Jennifer Hornsby 2021-Mar-05 41 minutes

The economics of almost everything | Daniel Markovits, Martin Wolf, Madeleine Pennington 2024-Feb-13 54 minutes

Words and the World | Paul Muldoon, Jennifer Hornsby, Hilary Lawson, Rebecca Roache 2020-Dec-29 50 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on chaos and the modern world - PART 4 2024-Oct-03 16 minutes

Doing Wrong To Do Right | Stephen de Wijze 2020-Jun-23 26 minutes

Epiphanies in philosophy PART 1 | Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell 2024-Jul-16 17 minutes

Imagining Imaginations | Terry Eagleton, Paul Boghossian, Joanne Harris 2017-Aug-18 36 minutes

The End of Humans | Interview with Patricia MacCormack 2019-Mar-29 11 minutes

The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia 2025-May-20 50 minutes

The End Of All Things | John Dupré, Subir Sarkar, Nancy Cartwright 2019-Jul-16 45 minutes

Why artists shouldn't fear AI | Jaron Lanier 2026-Jun-23 30 minutes

Free will, the self and other illusions | Galen Strawson 2022-Feb-08 22 minutes

Psychology of AI | Isabel Millar 2024-Jan-30 18 minutes

Beware Bankers Bearing Gifts: Is Debt Good? | Anatole Kaletsky, Stephen King, Laura Bear 2017-Dec-19 28 minutes

The Swindle Of The New | Terry Eagleton 2017-Dec-21 22 minutes

All the things we cannot say | Ray Tallis, Hilary Lawson, Joanna Kavenna 2022-Jan-18 43 minutes

Lies we tell about religion | Slavoj Zizek, Rupert Sheldrake, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen 2022-Jul-05 43 minutes

In Search of Freedom | Paul Broks, Julian Baggini, Hannah Dawson, Hilary Lawson 2020-May-05 37 minutes

Could the Universal Basic Income work? | Guy Standing vs Deirdre McCloskey 2018-Oct-23 33 minutes

Philosophy for our Times Presents: 'Beyond Us' 2021-Jan-15 less than a minute

Longtermism SPECIAL: The next stage of effective altruism 2025-Feb-28 33 minutes

The mechanics of other minds | Philip Ball 2022-Jan-11 32 minutes

The Skeptic’s Case for Free Speech | Michael Shermer 2021-May-11 27 minutes

Real Men | Julie Bindel, Diane Abbott, Rowan Pelling, Serena Kutchinsky 2017-Nov-07 28 minutes

Matter And Mind | Markus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva Jablonka 2016-Sep-01 47 minutes

The Importance of Identity and Belonging | Homi Bhabha, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, David Miller 2020-Jul-07 37 minutes

The Mind and the World | Raymond Tallis 2020-Mar-17 23 minutes

Finding transcendence in a secular world | Rupert Sheldrake 2023-Apr-18 27 minutes

The Reality Illusion | Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian, Hilary Lawson 2019-Sep-10 46 minutes

Everything We Cannot Know | Henry Gee 2021-Feb-09 24 minutes

Epiphanies in philosophy PART 2 | Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell 2024-Jul-19 18 minutes

Bonus Episode: The Struggle for Social Justice | Angela Eagle 2019-Jan-17 14 minutes

Does life have meaning? PART 3: Nolen Gertz on nihilism part two 2024-Aug-23 14 minutes

Consciousness predates life | Stuart Hameroff 2024-Nov-05 32 minutes

Everything We Know Is Wrong | Lawrence Krauss, Kenneth Cukier, Steve Fuller 2016-Oct-06 39 minutes

Consciousness and the limits of science PART 1 | Sean Carroll, Ellen Langer, and Tamar Gendler 2024-Oct-08 30 minutes

In search of nothing | David Deutsch, Amanda Gefter, Lee Smolin 2025-Nov-06 60 minutes

A Politics of Hope | Owen Jones 2017-Apr-13 38 minutes

The Secrets of Consciousness | Interview with Rupert Sheldrake 2019-Mar-08 9 minutes

Was Richard Dawkins wrong about memes? | Massimo Pigliucci, Hilary Lawson, Joanna Bryson 2022-Apr-19 44 minutes

Has philosophy lost its stories? | Galen Strawson, Patricia Churchland, Hilary Lawson 2022-Mar-22 42 minutes

A Philosophy of Confidence | Rowland Manthorpe 2017-Sep-26 25 minutes

Humans are not morally superior | Alex O'Connor 2025-Feb-14 27 minutes

God, science, and the natural world PART 2 | Philosopher Fiona Ellis 2024-Nov-15 34 minutes

The Prejudice of Philosophy | Chakravarthi Ram Prasad, Nivi Manchanda, Timothy Williamson 2019-Jun-25 39 minutes

The Tyranny of Meritocracy | Michael Sandel 2020-Dec-22 32 minutes

The Known, The Strange And The New | John Ellis, Robert Rowland-Smith, Janne Teller 2017-Feb-07 47 minutes

The Problem with Love | Mark Salter, Helen-Ann Hartley, Phillip Blond 2019-Jul-30 36 minutes

Understanding Consciousness | Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Blackmore, Tim Crane 2020-Sep-08 50 minutes

The dangers of morality | Rebecca Roache, Matthew Taylor and Hilary Lawson 2022-Feb-15 37 minutes

Ancient solutions for modern problems | Stoicism Series PART 1 | Massimo Pigliucci 2025-Jan-07 19 minutes

Is Oppression The Key To Creativity? | Lowkey, Joanna Kavenna, Andrew Motion 2019-Jun-11 38 minutes

Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes 2025-Aug-05 41 minutes

The Neuroscience of Consciousness | Raymond Tallis, Susana Martinez-Conde, Markus Gabriel 2019-May-20 46 minutes

The paradox of moral codes | David Friedman, Timothy Williamson and Maria Baghramian 2022-Jan-04 38 minutes

Love Story | Helen Croydon, Naomi Goulder and Anders Sandberg 2017-Feb-14 35 minutes

Unpacking The Ethics of Covid-19 |Susan Neiman, Peter Hitchens, Patricia Churchland 2020-Jun-09 52 minutes

The end is a new beginning | Philosopher Ben Ware 2024-Oct-15 26 minutes

Overwhelmed By Choice | Renata Salecl 2020-Dec-15 30 minutes

In Search Of The Self | Simon Blackburn, Mary Midgley, Colin Blakemore 2016-Sep-03 40 minutes

Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach 2025-Apr-22 23 minutes

Should we free ourselves of objects and clutter? | Paul Dolan, Mary-Ann Ochota and Steve Taylor 2023-Jan-31 40 minutes

Newton's Fall | Erik Verlinde 2018-Jan-23 20 minutes

Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby 2025-Aug-12 40 minutes

The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era 2025-Sep-16 29 minutes

Art beyond the sublime | Rupert Sheldrake, Minna Salami, Olivia Fane, Joanna Kavenna 2022-Mar-29 44 minutes

Consciousness and psychedelics: In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 2025-Nov-28 31 minutes

The Illusion of Now | Julian Barbour, Tim Maudlin, Emily Thomas 2019-Jun-18 41 minutes

Reality in the Digital World | Laurence Scott 2019-Jan-02 28 minutes

Does ultimate truth exist? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins, Hilary Lawson 2022-Jun-21 45 minutes

Everyday philosophy, Extraordinary life | Timothy Williamson 2022-Apr-26 24 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on chaos and the modern world - PART 3 2024-Oct-01 23 minutes

Embracing solidarity in our secular age | Interview with Rowan Williams 2024-Apr-17 15 minutes

Beyond Us: Knowledge with Rebecca Goldstein 2021-Jan-22 34 minutes

Who's afraid of gender? | Judith Butler 2026-May-19 40 minutes

Can art uncover the essence of the world? | Janne Teller, Isy Suttie, Paul Muldoon, James Tartaglia 2023-Feb-14 47 minutes

Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of the apocalypse 2025-Oct-31 44 minutes

The Value of Ethics | Bart Streumer 2020-Apr-14 16 minutes

Being Certain: Are convictions dangerous? | Julian Baggini, Andrew Bowie, Edwina Currie 2018-Apr-10 37 minutes

Playing Dice With The Universe | Chiara Marletto, Michael Duff, Peter Cameron 2016-Sep-15 48 minutes

Russia, China and the New World Order | Rana Mitter, Stephen King, George Galloway 2018-Jul-10 38 minutes

Choosing virtual reality | David Chalmers 2022-Aug-16 25 minutes

Is rationality a delusion? | Sophie Archer, Timothy Williamson and Nina Power 2022-Jul-19 41 minutes

The Promise of Psychedelics | David Nutt, Amanda Feilding, Stephen Reid 2018-Dec-18 36 minutes

Are we hallucinating ourselves? | Anil Seth 2021-Nov-23 25 minutes

Dreaming The Future | Natalie Bennett, Phillip Blond, Roger Scruton 2017-Jan-24 46 minutes

Is Reality Necessary? | Chiara Marletto, Gerard t'Hooft, Christopher Timpson 2019-Apr-30 38 minutes

Diversity and Power | Sophie Walker 2017-Oct-24 25 minutes

Love is more than magic | Alain de Botton 2026-Aug-04 35 minutes

Science and Spiritual Practices | Rupert Sheldrake 2020-Jul-14 15 minutes

Generation Wars II | Diane Abbott, Anatole Kaletsky, Victor Adebowale, Joe Todd 2018-Aug-21 34 minutes

Power, Status And Sexuality | Catherine Hakim, Doon Mackichan, Peter Tatchell 2017-Nov-16 38 minutes

The quest for freedom | Katarina Schwarz 2023-Nov-21 31 minutes

The philosophy of extinction (or of the end of the world)| Philosopher Ben Ware 2024-Nov-19 30 minutes

Analytic or Continental philosophy | Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich 2025-Dec-09 49 minutes

The big ideas we choose to believe in | Dallas Campbell 2021-Nov-16 25 minutes

Our delusions about reality | Iain McGilchrist 2022-Jul-26 20 minutes

Necessary lies | Michael Shermer, Hilary Lawson & Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen 2021-Aug-10 47 minutes

Spirituality for the non-religious | Rupert Sheldrake 2021-Jun-08 27 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on God, reality and quantum physics 2024-Sep-17 23 minutes

Conspiracy and belief | Michael Shermer 2024-May-21 28 minutes

The puzzle of artistic greatness | Minna Salami, Stanley Fish, Meg Rosoff, Janne Teller 2022-Jun-07 49 minutes

Is objective news an illusion? | John Lloyd, Hilary Lawson, Jonathan Calvert 2016-Nov-22 33 minutes

Perception as a fantasy | Donald Hoffman 2024-Apr-23 22 minutes

Beyond Us: Competition with Donald Hoffman 2021-Feb-12 40 minutes

How important is rationality to humans? PART 1 | Stuart Hameroff, Subrena Smith, Paul Bloom 2024-Dec-10 25 minutes

Madness and Wisdom | Richard Bentall, Patricia Casey, Robert-Rowland Smith 2017-Feb-21 42 minutes

Catching Sight of Ourselves | Christopher Hamilton, Adjoa Andoh, Daniel Miller 2017-Aug-14 33 minutes

Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer 2025-Jun-24 22 minutes

Rethinking Capital | Paul Krugman, Stephen Dorrell, Alex Callinicos 2016-Sep-06 44 minutes

Mysteries of the multiverse | Catherine Heymans 2018-Oct-17 24 minutes

What's It All For? | Helen Lederer, Julian Baggini, Susan Neiman, Janne Teller 2019-Aug-20 35 minutes

March Of The Machines | Roger Penrose, Nigel Shadbolt, Warren Ellis 2016-Nov-03 43 minutes

The Good, Bad, & Controversial | Naomi Goulder, Brendan O'Neill, Sameer Rahim, Sam Roddick 2016-Dec-06 51 minutes

How to Make the Right Decision | Jason McKenzie Alexander 2020-May-26 41 minutes

The Morality of the Tribe | David Miller, Natalie Cargill, Peter Tatchell 2019-Jan-29 40 minutes

Consciousness is quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff 2025-Mar-18 30 minutes

Kafka vs Camus | Emma Sulkowicz, Andrea Elliott, Paul Muldoon 2023-Jan-11 41 minutes

Dancing With The Devil | Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Roache, Peter Dews 2016-Nov-29 44 minutes

A radical plan to save education | Michael Hrebeniak, Isabelle McNeill 2021-Nov-30 18 minutes

On the nature of reality | Rowan Williams and Iain McGilchrist 2026-Mar-17 33 minutes

The End of the Theory of Everything | John Ellis, Huw Price, Joanna Kavenna 2018-Sep-05 31 minutes

Sisters and Sisterhood | Myriam Francois, Margaret Heffernan, Kimberlé Crenshaw 2017-Jan-10 46 minutes

The neuroscience of consciousness | Patricia Churchland 2021-Jul-06 24 minutes

Bonus Episode: Hidden Desires, Secret Thoughts | Shahida Bari, Barry C Smith, Richard Bentall 2018-Mar-22 29 minutes

Politics and the Patriarchy | Angela Eagle 2017-Aug-16 20 minutes

A tale of truth | Simon Blackburn 2023-Jun-13 28 minutes

The Fantasy Of Money | Nigel Dodd, Sarah Bird, Izabella Kaminska 2017-Dec-05 34 minutes

The strange search for knowledge in the age of post-truth | Steve Fuller 2026-Mar-03 28 minutes

When Time Stands Still | Lee Smolin, Michael Duff, Eleanor Knox 2016-Dec-13 30 minutes

Metaphysics and science: do we need both? PART 1 | Eric Weinstein, Becky Parker, Hilary Lawson 2024-Aug-28 20 minutes

Why is There Something Rather than Nothing? | Amie Thomasson, George Ellis, Rupert Sheldrake 2019-Mar-12 32 minutes

Minds, Madness And Medicine | Lucy Johnstone, David Nutt, David Healy 2018-Nov-27 32 minutes

Are we moral hypocrites? | Julian Baggini, David Chandler, Ece Temelkuran 2021-Nov-02 45 minutes

The seduction of thought | Miranda Keeling, Steve Taylor, Andy West 2023-Aug-08 48 minutes

The danger of self reflection | John Vervaeke, Isabel Millar, Frank Furedi and Joanna Kavenna 2024-Dec-18 50 minutes

After the Higgs Boson | John Ellis 2017-Apr-18 30 minutes

Asking the ultimate questions about reality | Robert Lawrence Kuhn 2022-Apr-12 27 minutes

Machines that feel? | Fotini Markopoulou 2022-Jan-25 22 minutes

Necessity and lies | Rebecca Roache, Simon Baron-Cohen, Hilary Lawson 2023-Dec-05 46 minutes

Anonymity: the dream and the nightmare | Stephen Kinsella, Victoria Baines, Hugh Tomlinson 2023-Oct-17 45 minutes

Consciousness in the machine | Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Schneider 2023-Apr-24 50 minutes

The one true story | Janne Teller, Barry C. Smith, Silvia Jonas 2023-Mar-28 36 minutes

Is science objective? | Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Atkins, Steve Fuller, Angela Saini 2022-Sep-20 44 minutes

Neuroscience vs. Philosophy | Margaret Boden, Steven Rose, Barry C. Smith 2017-Oct-03 36 minutes

Narcissism and self-love | Simon Blackburn 2024-Jan-16 22 minutes

Getting everything, losing everything | Anders Sandberg, Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Chirimuuta 2023-Sep-05 41 minutes

Emotion Vs Reason | Dan Ariely, Paul Bloom, Patty Kostkova 2021-Apr-13 45 minutes

How do we know who to trust? | Maria Baghramian 2021-Mar-16 18 minutes

Technology, Relationships and Freedom | Chi Onwurah, Kate Russell, James Ladyman 2018-Aug-14 29 minutes

The chains of freedom | Daniel Markovits, Elizabeth Anderson, Yaron Brook 2026-Sep-01 47 minutes

Overcoming evolution | Subrina Smith, Keith Frankish, Simon Baron-Cohen 2026-Apr-28 45 minutes

A new theory of ethics | Martha Nussbaum 2026-Apr-06 27 minutes

The relationship between mind and matter | Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Carlo Rovelli 2026-Feb-10 50 minutes

Freedom and Fate 2026-Jan-27 53 minutes

The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François 2025-Apr-16 25 minutes

The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner 2025-Apr-08 59 minutes

The inner life of a stoic | Stoicism Series PART 5 | Massimo Pigliucci 2025-Jan-21 24 minutes

Nietzsche, Epicurus, and the Santa Claus lie | The philosophy of Christmas 2024-Dec-24 28 minutes

Surviving and Thriving On Curiosity | Garrick Jones 2020-Dec-10 44 minutes

Should we care for ants | Peter Godfrey-Smith 2023-Jan-17 32 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past 2026-Apr-21 86 minutes

Reality Uncovered | John Ellis, Sabine Hossenfelder, Jim Baggott 2020-Nov-24 41 minutes

Why is language no guide to reality? | Nolen Gertz, Betty Sue Flowers, Joscha Bach 2023-Dec-19 51 minutes

The Beautiful World | Nicholas Humphrey 2026-Oct-06 53 minutes

Love and other drugs | Rupert Sheldrake, Anders Sandberg, Ella Whelan 2023-May-16 49 minutes

Does energy really exist? | Priyamvada Natarajan, Avshalom Elitzur, and Bernard Carr on the enigma of energy 2024-Apr-02 60 minutes

Rehumanising science | Carlo Rovelli - Part 1 2026-Sep-15 38 minutes

The future of the right | Sohrab Ahmari, Gawain Towler, Rachel Maclean, Mark Littlewood 2026-Aug-11 44 minutes

Neighbours before strangers | Alain de Botton, Seyla Benhabib and Tommy Curry 2026-Mar-10 50 minutes

The importance of giving up | Adam Phillips 2025-Oct-28 27 minutes

After postmodernism | Hilary Lawson, Robin van den Akker, Abby Innes, Sophie Scott-Brown 2025-Oct-10 47 minutes

Will psychedelics revolutionize mental health treatment? | Matthew Johnson, Shayla Love, and Kevin Sabet 2025-Aug-29 49 minutes

How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith 2025-Jul-22 21 minutes

The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments 2025-Jun-27 45 minutes

A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton 2025-Jun-17 44 minutes

The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely 2025-May-13 46 minutes

The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple 2025-Apr-29 42 minutes

Ancient Philosophy SPECIAL | Plato's Gymnasium, Celebrity Messiahs, and Bronze Age Economics 2025-Jan-31 31 minutes

Loving oneself and loving others | Carol Gilligan, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Richard Wrangham 2024-Jun-20 58 minutes

Why we seek spirituality | John Vervaeke, Sophie-Grace Chappell, Michael Shermer 2024-Feb-21 48 minutes

How To Overcome Wilful Blindness | Margaret Heffernan 2020-Apr-28 16 minutes

How I changed my mind about truth | Simon Blackburn 2023-Sep-19 28 minutes

How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa 2026-Apr-14 48 minutes

Crisis in the academy | Yaron Brook, Eric Kaufmann, Catherine Liu 2026-Mar-31 46 minutes

The philosophy of dehumanisation | David Livingstone Smith 2025-Mar-25 31 minutes

Rehumanising science | Carlo Rovelli - Part 2 2026-Sep-22 45 minutes

The Maths of Life | Silvia Jonas 2020-Oct-06 16 minutes

Public policies in pursuit of happiness | Paul Dolan 2022-Aug-09 20 minutes

What does data really tell us? | Donald Hoffman, Tim Maudlin, Lisa Randall 2022-May-03 43 minutes

The Logical Labyrinth of Expertise | Anandi Hattiangadi 2021-May-18 32 minutes

Philosophy Vs Authority | Noam Chomsky, Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Lilla 2020-Apr-21 40 minutes

Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman 2021-Nov-09 44 minutes

Time's Arrow | Jim Al - Khalili, Raymond Tallis, Craig Bourne, Angie Hobbs 2018-Apr-03 33 minutes

Capitalism And Anarchy | Aaron Bastani, Stephen King, Deirdre McCloskey 2016-Sep-08 39 minutes

Becoming A Philosopher | Daniel Dennett 2021-Apr-06 31 minutes

Panpsychism vs physics | Philip Goff 2022-Mar-15 26 minutes

Postmodernism in the dock | Julian Baggini, Mina Salami, Hilary Lawson and Julie Bindel 2022-Nov-01 43 minutes

The philosophy of who we are | Kwame Anthony Appiah 2021-Jun-15 17 minutes

The good and the evil│Tommy Curry, Massimo Pigliucci, Joanna Kavenna 2023-May-09 55 minutes

Cities of the future | Lucelia Rodrigues 2023-Oct-24 35 minutes

Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio 2025-Jul-02 30 minutes

The illusion of separation | Jessica Frazier on the Monism of Hindu philosophy 2025-Aug-26 24 minutes

Head to Head: Philosophy vs Science | Marika Taylor, Julian Baggini 2023-Jul-11 29 minutes

What Is The Meaning Of Life? | Mark Rowlands 2018-Jan-09 18 minutes

Space Hacks | Patricia Lewis 2017-Apr-25 25 minutes

The Universe Code | Peter Atkins, Chiara Marletto, James Ladyman 2017-Aug-29 43 minutes

Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes 2025-May-16 31 minutes

On Air with Annie Nightingale 2017-Aug-04 30 minutes

Love Me Tinder| Christopher Hamilton, Steve Carter, Anders Sandberg 2017-May-31 48 minutes

The Sex Myth | Interview with Brooke Magnanti 2019-Mar-22 8 minutes

Does emotion rule over reason? | Tommy Curry, Güneş Taylor, Julian Baggini 2023-Apr-11 47 minutes

Innocence and Punishment | Ritula Shah, Emma Sulkowicz, David Aaronovitch, Sarah Langford 2019-Jan-08 41 minutes

Back from the end of time | Erik Verlinde, Huw Price, Alison Fernandez 2018-Aug-08 35 minutes

The Illusion of Sense | Hilary Lawson, Rupert Read, Ophelia Deroy 2017-Mar-07 46 minutes

The good, the bad and the ignored | Peter Singer, Julian Baggini, Sophie Scott-Brown 2023-Sep-18 42 minutes

The search for certainty | Simon Blackburn, Hilary Lawson, Ruth Chang 2022-Nov-29 42 minutes

How the universe learns | Rupert Sheldrake 2021-Aug-17 31 minutes

How to make the right decision | Bence Nanay, Naomi Goulder, Barry C. Smith 2018-Jun-19 30 minutes

Philosophy for emergencies | Santiago Zabala 2021-Aug-03 12 minutes

How dangerous are your beliefs? | George Ellis, Carlo Rovelli, Philip Goff and Shami Chakrabarti 2021-Jul-20 42 minutes

Humans and other animals | Ray Tallis, Melanie Challenger, Jamie Blackett and Kay Peggs 2021-Jun-22 46 minutes

Beyond Us: Growth with Mo Gawdat 2021-Mar-26 45 minutes

Beyond Experience | Tara Shears, Hilary Lawson, Alison Milbank 2017-Mar-28 46 minutes

The Science of Psychedelics | David Nutt 2018-Jun-12 29 minutes

Ditching Selfish Ideologies | John Milbank 2021-Jan-05 29 minutes

The World That Disappeared | Peter Atkins, James Ladyman, Joanna Kavenna 2020-Mar-24 43 minutes

Does Universal Morality Exist? | Stanley Fish, Myriam Francois, Phillip Collins 2018-Dec-11 31 minutes

Time, Space And Being | Michela Massimi, Julian Barbour, Huw Price 2016-Sep-05 46 minutes

Modern Crises and Ancient Gods | David King, Sister Jayanti, Natalie Bennett 2019-Oct-08 46 minutes

The Meaning of the Multiverse | Cumrun Vafa, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, John Ellis 2019-Aug-13 40 minutes

Running The World Differently | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Margaret Hodge, Ritula Shah 2018-Mar-13 39 minutes

A landscape of consciousness | Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Hilary Lawson 2025-Sep-02 41 minutes

On the 'demons' of science | Jimena Canales interview 2024-Jul-02 21 minutes

The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton 2025-Jun-10 21 minutes

The Future of Mind Control | Rupert Sheldrake, Susan Schneider, Natasha Vita-More 2021-Apr-20 40 minutes

Beyond truth | Hilary Lawson 2021-Dec-14 32 minutes

Masters of the Universe | Natalie Kofler, Steve Fuller, Angela Saini 2019-Oct-01 36 minutes

Bonus Episode: In Search Of Safety | Finn Mackay, Brendan O'Neill, Chris Bryant 2018-Jan-10 36 minutes

Bonus Episode: The Story of I | John Cottingham, Richard Morgan, Mark Salter 2018-Feb-20 29 minutes

A Goldilock's World | Chiara Marletto, Bernard Carr, Massimo Pigliucci 2017-Jul-31 40 minutes

The lure of Lucifer | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, and Stephen de Wijze 2025-Feb-25 37 minutes

Is philosophy becoming irrelevant? | Mary Midgley 2026-May-26 27 minutes

Elite Rule | Carne Ross, Yassmin Abdel Magied, Hugo Drochon 2018-Jun-07 39 minutes

Dreams of a transhumanist future | Luke Robert Mason 2022-Apr-05 28 minutes

The Lure of Evil | Christopher Hamilton, Patricia MacCormack, John Milbank 2019-Apr-23 45 minutes

The truth about philosophy of science| Sabine Hossenfelder 2022-May-10 18 minutes

Truth in a Post Truth World | Interview with Hilary Lawson 2019-Mar-15 10 minutes

The People's Champion | Owen Jones, Michael Howard, Phillip Blond 2016-Sep-07 42 minutes

Language and the World | Corine Besson, Nancy Cartwright, Hilary Lawson 2017-Sep-05 31 minutes

Taking down the cultural elite | Catherine Liu 2026-Sep-08 37 minutes

Mind, Myth And Madness | Richard Bentall, Simon Baron-Cohen, Dinesh Bhugra 2016-Sep-02 47 minutes

Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of monsters, magic, and mausoleums 2024-Nov-01 33 minutes

In the name of reason | Steve Fuller, Miriam Schoenfield, Dan Sperber 2026-Jul-28 40 minutes

Animal Rights and Human Wrongs | Peter Singer, Christopher Belshaw, Mary-Ann Sieghart, Peter Egan 2020-Nov-17 44 minutes

Tribal Truths and New Wisdom | Paul Mason, Hilary Lawson, Ella McPherson 2020-Feb-05 38 minutes

How to navigate the hidden gems of philosophy | Maria Balaska 2021-Dec-07 18 minutes

Does life have meaning? PART 1: John VERVAEKE on Solving the meaning crisis 2024-Aug-06 35 minutes

Romancing Opiates | Theodore Dalrymple 2017-Oct-10 18 minutes

Copying consciousness: the future of mind uploading | Anders Sandberg 2026-Jun-16 37 minutes

The philosophy behind Thanksgiving | Property, Power, and Indigenous Land Rights 2024-Nov-26 50 minutes

Psychedelics and the structure of reality | Julian Baggini, Eileen Hall, and James Rucker 2025-Sep-12 46 minutes

The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen 2025-Aug-20 27 minutes