Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Emotions • Political engagement and civil disobedience • Time perception • Philosophical traditions in tough times • Women philosophers • Neofeudalism • Obedience • Academic scandals • Friendship • Transgender experience • Race and identity • Libertarianism • Free speech • AI and technology • Moral philosophy • Ancient and modern philosophy • Freedom and liberty concepts
This podcast, titled "Philosopher's Zone," delves into the complexities of philosophical inquiry, offering listeners a guide through the intricate landscapes of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. The content spans a broad array of philosophical discussions, exploring both timeless and contemporary issues.
One prominent theme is the examination of emotions, identity, and human experience. Episodes investigate the origins of emotions, the allure of identical twins, and the existential challenges posed by pain and suffering. Topics such as transgender identity, the philosophy of disability, the cultural fascination with beauty and ugliness, and the nature of friendships are also analyzed, providing a rich discourse on the human condition.
Political philosophy is another significant focus. Discussions include the roles and ethics of civil disobedience, police abolition, and the potential societal shift towards neofeudalism. Libertarianism, liberal democracies, and political engagement through protest are scrutinized, reflecting on how these concepts shape our society and individual lives. The podcast also explores political dynamics through the lens of historical and contemporary philosophers, including examinations of Richard Rorty's predictions for America and Mary Midgley's views on public philosophy.
The intersection of philosophy with science and metaphysics is frequently addressed. Episodes tackle the philosophy of time, questioning the perception of temporal flow, as well as the philosophical implications of biology and the cosmos. The relationship between free will, consciousness, and artificial intelligence is explored, alongside queries into the purpose of the universe and the philosophical dimensions of myth.
Ethical quandaries underpin numerous episodes, addressing topics such as the morality of pornography, the ethics of global philanthropy, and historical conceptions of obedience and virtue. The podcast also poses philosophical challenges to established norms, such as the banality of evil, the pathology of ugliness, and the implications of gaslighting.
Overall, "Philosopher's Zone" presents a diverse and thought-provoking exploration of philosophical issues, blending deep theoretical analysis with discussions of practical and contemporary concerns. The podcast serves as a robust platform for understanding complex philosophical concepts and their relevance to today's world.
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Episodes:
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The ancient key to modern happiness
2024-Jun-27
28 minutes
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Fighting fatphobia with Kate Manne
2024-Jun-21
28 minutes
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The philosophy of emotions
2024-Jun-14
28 minutes
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Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee
2024-Jun-07
28 minutes
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Why time doesn't pass
2024-May-30
28 minutes
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Philosophy for tough times
2024-May-24
28 minutes
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Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
2024-May-16
38 minutes
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Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
2024-May-08
38 minutes
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Obedience
2024-May-01
28 minutes
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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
2024-Apr-25
31 minutes
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Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
2024-Apr-18
33 minutes
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The predicament of existence
2024-Apr-10
28 minutes
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Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing
2024-Apr-04
28 minutes
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Intellectual humility
2024-Mar-27
28 minutes
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Freedom or liberty?
2024-Mar-20
40 minutes
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Philosophy, angst and hope
2024-Mar-14
27 minutes
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Music, taste and AI
2024-Mar-06
42 minutes
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The philosophy of twins
2024-Feb-29
28 minutes
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Philosophy, disability and the gut
2024-Feb-22
29 minutes
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Pornography and free speech
2024-Feb-15
32 minutes
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What are Australian philosophers thinking?
2024-Feb-07
34 minutes
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Queer vs the state
2024-Jan-30
43 minutes
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What is swearing?
2024-Jan-24
34 minutes
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Friendship
2024-Jan-17
28 minutes
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Transgender identity and experience
2024-Jan-10
30 minutes
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Gender, gaming and pop culture
2024-Jan-03
28 minutes
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Richard Rorty and America
2023-Dec-27
35 minutes
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Women philosophers in antiquity
2023-Dec-20
28 minutes
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Time in the time of COVID
2023-Dec-13
28 minutes
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Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
2023-Dec-07
28 minutes
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Libertarianism
2023-Nov-28
40 minutes
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The Cynics
2023-Nov-23
45 minutes
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The philosophy of biology
2023-Nov-15
28 minutes
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Banality, deception and evil
2023-Nov-09
35 minutes
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Defining Aboriginality
2023-Nov-02
28 minutes
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Race, biology and medicine
2023-Oct-25
28 minutes
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Is there purpose in the cosmos?
2023-Oct-17
36 minutes
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Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
2023-Oct-11
34 minutes
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Poverty and punishment
2023-Oct-04
36 minutes
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Free will, consciousness and AI: a conversation with Daniel Dennett
2023-Sep-28
38 minutes
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René Girard and victimhood
2023-Sep-21
28 minutes
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Beauty and AI
2023-Sep-13
28 minutes
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The pathology of ugliness
2023-Sep-07
28 minutes
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Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
2023-Aug-30
38 minutes
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Police abolition
2023-Aug-23
28 minutes
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Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
2023-Aug-17
39 minutes
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Friendship
2023-Aug-10
28 minutes
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Gaslighting
2023-Aug-03
28 minutes
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Why time doesn't pass
2023-Jul-27
28 minutes
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Exploring Tourette's
2023-Jul-20
38 minutes
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Philosophy and myth
2023-Jul-11
28 minutes
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Transgender identity and experience
2023-Jul-05
30 minutes
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How philosophy fell in love with language
2023-Jun-27
28 minutes
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Philosophy for tough times
2023-Jun-22
28 minutes
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Taking politics seriously
2023-Jun-15
28 minutes
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Gender, gaming and pop culture
2023-Jun-08
28 minutes
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Exploring the multiverse
2023-Jun-01
28 minutes
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Leadership
2023-May-25
28 minutes
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Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
2023-May-21
28 minutes
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Philosophy behind bars
2023-May-14
28 minutes
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Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
2023-May-03
28 minutes
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Richard Rorty and America
2023-Apr-27
35 minutes
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The anti-philosophers
2023-Apr-23
28 minutes
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De-extinction, pt 2
2023-Apr-12
28 minutes
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De-extinction, pt 1
2023-Apr-05
28 minutes
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Art and hate speech
2023-Mar-30
28 minutes
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Women and the canon
2023-Mar-22
30 minutes
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Data privacy and informed consent
2023-Mar-16
30 minutes
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Women philosophers in antiquity
2023-Mar-08
30 minutes
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Moral creativity
2023-Mar-05
30 minutes
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Tradition, modernity and crisis in Ukraine
2023-Feb-23
30 minutes
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The lessons of failure
2023-Feb-16
30 minutes
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A Buddhist perspective on the ethics of violence
2023-Feb-10
30 minutes
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On being a minority in philosophy
2023-Feb-02
30 minutes
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Skilled performance and cognition
2023-Jan-24
30 minutes
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China, Confucius and the courtyard
2023-Jan-17
30 minutes
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Values and goals
2023-Jan-10
30 minutes
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Pop, philosophy and politics
2023-Jan-03
30 minutes
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
2022-Dec-27
30 minutes
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Efficiency, productivity and excess
2022-Dec-20
30 minutes
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Philosophy and children
2022-Dec-13
30 minutes
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Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
2022-Dec-08
30 minutes
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Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
2022-Dec-01
30 minutes
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Owning the public square
2022-Nov-24
30 minutes
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Philosophy behind bars
2022-Nov-16
30 minutes
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Causation and death
2022-Nov-10
30 minutes
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The prophetic vision of Günther Anders
2022-Nov-02
30 minutes
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How should we treat insects?
2022-Oct-30
30 minutes
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Philosophy and travel
2022-Oct-19
30 minutes
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Refugees and moral obligation
2022-Oct-12
30 minutes
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How Nietzsche extracts cheerfulness from suffering
2022-Oct-07
30 minutes
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Trust and scepticism in a post-truth world
2022-Sep-30
30 minutes
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Satanism
2022-Sep-25
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Housing part 3 - land rights
2022-Sep-18
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Housing part 2 - rent
2022-Sep-11
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Housing pt 1 - care ethics
2022-Sep-04
30 minutes
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Values and goals
2022-Aug-28
30 minutes
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What's new in death - part 2
2022-Aug-21
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What's new in death - part 1
2022-Aug-14
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Doctors and dualism
2022-Aug-07
28 minutes
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Art and hate speech
2022-Jul-31
28 minutes
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Simone de Beauvoir: becoming a woman
2022-Jul-24
28 minutes
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Ubuntu
2022-Jul-17
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell: The aphorism
2022-Jul-10
28 minutes
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The great and the good-enough
2022-Jul-03
28 minutes
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Pop, philosophy and politics
2022-Jun-26
28 minutes
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Edmund Burke, revolution and reform
2022-Jun-19
35 minutes
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Hegel, nature and the Anthropocene
2022-Jun-12
28 minutes
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The phenomenology of love
2022-Jun-05
28 minutes
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
2022-May-29
38 minutes
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Adoption and moral obligation
2022-May-22
28 minutes
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Identity politics
2022-May-15
28 minutes
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Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal?
2022-May-08
28 minutes
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Rupture and hope
2022-May-01
28 minutes
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Sex, death and chilli sauce
2022-Apr-24
28 minutes
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Philosophy and myth
2022-Apr-17
28 minutes
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The predicament of existence
2022-Apr-10
28 minutes
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Moral beauty and art
2022-Apr-03
28 minutes
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Philosophers in love
2022-Mar-27
28 minutes
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The ethics of uterus transplantation
2022-Mar-20
28 minutes
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Extremism
2022-Mar-13
28 minutes
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Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
2022-Mar-06
28 minutes
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Efficiency, productivity, excess
2022-Feb-27
40 minutes
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Consciousness and contemplation
2022-Feb-20
28 minutes
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Art and climate
2022-Feb-13
28 minutes
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China, Confucius and the courtyard
2022-Feb-06
28 minutes
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Stuff
2022-Jan-30
28 minutes
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What we talk about when we talk about race
2022-Jan-23
28 minutes
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The death of analytic philosophy?
2022-Jan-16
28 minutes
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Restlessness
2022-Jan-09
28 minutes
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Structural injustice and individual responsibility
2022-Jan-02
28 minutes
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Derrida and difficulty
2021-Dec-26
28 minutes
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The many worlds of David Lewis
2021-Dec-19
28 minutes
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Mathematics and the good life
2021-Dec-12
28 minutes
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Bad thinking and good people
2021-Dec-05
28 minutes
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The individual and the collective
2021-Nov-28
28 minutes
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Philosophy and psychedelic experience
2021-Nov-21
28 minutes
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Buddhist logic
2021-Nov-14
28 minutes
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Care ethics
2021-Nov-07
28 minutes
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Philosophy and children
2021-Oct-31
28 minutes
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Gender and gaming
2021-Oct-24
28 minutes
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What is dignity?
2021-Oct-17
28 minutes
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Yan Fu: China meets Western liberalism
2021-Oct-10
28 minutes
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The trouble with our moral evolution
2021-Oct-03
28 minutes
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RN Presents: This Much Is True
2021-Sep-29
3 minutes
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About time, part 4: The insect clock
2021-Sep-26
28 minutes
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About time, part 3: Time and perception
2021-Sep-19
28 minutes
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About time, part 2: Time in fiction
2021-Sep-12
28 minutes
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About time, part 1: Newton's exploding clock
2021-Sep-05
28 minutes
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The abominable heretic
2021-Aug-29
28 minutes
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How should we treat insects?
2021-Aug-22
28 minutes
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Was the market economy inevitable?
2021-Aug-15
28 minutes
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Structural injustice and individual responsibility
2021-Aug-08
28 minutes
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Women, the alt-right and the liberal centre
2021-Aug-01
28 minutes
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Nietzsche and transfiguration
2021-Jul-25
28 minutes
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Trust, risk and experts
2021-Jul-18
28 minutes
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Mathematical objects
2021-Jul-11
28 minutes
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Misogyny
2021-Jul-04
28 minutes
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Analytic philosophy: the leading brand
2021-Jun-27
28 minutes
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The death of analytic philosophy?
2021-Jun-20
28 minutes
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Marxism pt 2: Black Marxism
2021-Jun-13
28 minutes
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Marxism pt 1: Marx the philosopher
2021-Jun-06
28 minutes
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Ethics, philosophy and immigration
2021-May-30
38 minutes
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Women and the Dhamma
2021-May-23
28 minutes
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What can David Hume teach us?
2021-May-16
28 minutes
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Chronomobilities
2021-May-09
28 minutes
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Logic in Indian philosophy
2021-May-02
28 minutes
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Ecocultural identity
2021-Apr-25
28 minutes
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Philosophy and ecology
2021-Apr-18
28 minutes
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Restlessness
2021-Apr-11
28 minutes
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Neurophenomenology and embodied sensemaking
2021-Apr-04
28 minutes
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The problem with "moral machines"
2021-Mar-28
28 minutes
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Honour in the institution
2021-Mar-21
28 minutes
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Identity politics
2021-Mar-14
28 minutes
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Living like a Stoic
2021-Mar-07
28 minutes
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What we talk about when we talk about race
2021-Feb-28
28 minutes
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Cultural appropriation
2021-Feb-21
28 minutes
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Civilisation and the salon
2021-Feb-14
28 minutes
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Derrida and difficulty
2021-Feb-07
28 minutes
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Free will, retribution and just deserts
2021-Jan-31
34 minutes
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Philosophy in the wake of Empire part 5: Tracks of thought
2021-Jan-24
28 minutes
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Philosophy in the wake of Empire part 4: Africa
2021-Jan-17
28 minutes
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Philosophy in the wake of Empire pt. 3: Missionary feminism
2021-Jan-10
28 minutes
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Philosophy in the wake of Empire pt. 2: Migrants and other Others
2021-Jan-03
28 minutes
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Philosophy in the wake of Empire pt. 1: The white way to think
2020-Dec-27
28 minutes
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In the wild
2020-Dec-20
28 minutes
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The inside of anger
2020-Dec-13
28 minutes
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Phenomenology
2020-Dec-06
28 minutes
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Anti-social media
2020-Nov-29
28 minutes
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Science, misinformation and dissent
2020-Nov-22
28 minutes
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Refugees and moral obligation
2020-Nov-15
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 6: Becoming a woman
2020-Nov-08
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 5: Ubuntu
2020-Nov-01
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 4: Nietzsche and nihilism
2020-Oct-25
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 3: Derrida and the text
2020-Oct-18
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 2: Confucius, wealth and politics
2020-Oct-11
28 minutes
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Philosophy in a nutshell pt 1: The aphorism
2020-Oct-04
28 minutes
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Politics at the extremes
2020-Sep-27
28 minutes
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PRESENTS — Ideas
2020-Sep-21
6 minutes
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Progressive Islam
2020-Sep-20
34 minutes
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The abominable heretic
2020-Sep-13
29 minutes
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Shifting the frame on COVID-19
2020-Sep-06
28 minutes
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Lev Shestov: staying awake in the dark
2020-Aug-30
28 minutes
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Moral grandstanding
2020-Aug-23
28 minutes
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AI home devices: A feminist perspective
2020-Aug-16
28 minutes
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Inhumanity
2020-Aug-09
28 minutes
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What are we doing when we argue?
2020-Aug-02
28 minutes
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Nihilism and utopia
2020-Jul-26
28 minutes
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Mind, matter and motherhood
2020-Jul-19
28 minutes
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Montesquieu and despotism
2020-Jul-12
28 minutes
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The digital dead
2020-Jul-05
51 minutes
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Philosophy by postcard
2020-Jun-28
28 minutes
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The ethics of uterus transplantation
2020-Jun-21
28 minutes
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Race in America pt 2: Lewis Gordon
2020-Jun-14
28 minutes
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Race in America pt 1: George Yancy
2020-Jun-07
36 minutes
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Choosing a personal philosophy: Existentialism
2020-May-31
28 minutes
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Driverless cars, inequality and the 'trolley problem' in a high-tech world
2020-May-24
28 minutes
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Citizens and urban planning
2020-May-17
28 minutes
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The big snore
2020-May-10
28 minutes
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What can genes tell us?
2020-May-03
28 minutes
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Border patrol
2020-Apr-26
28 minutes
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Thinking a pandemic
2020-Apr-19
28 minutes
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Time in a time of excess time
2020-Apr-12
28 minutes
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Honour in the institution
2020-Apr-05
28 minutes
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AI and moral intuition: use it or lose it?
2020-Mar-29
28 minutes
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LGBT elders, isolation and loneliness
2020-Mar-22
28 minutes
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Dangerous minds
2020-Mar-15
28 minutes
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The many and the one
2020-Mar-08
28 minutes
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The why of philosophy
2020-Mar-01
28 minutes
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Is reason enough?
2020-Feb-23
28 minutes
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Plato's woman problem
2020-Feb-16
28 minutes
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In praise of mortality
2020-Feb-09
35 minutes
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Remembering Roger Scruton
2020-Feb-02
28 minutes
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Uluru and the heart of the liberal state
2020-Jan-26
28 minutes
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Disability and dignity
2020-Jan-19
28 minutes
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Politics and the sacred
2020-Jan-12
28 minutes
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Thinking the country
2020-Jan-05
28 minutes
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Plato, Buddhism and storytelling
2019-Dec-29
28 minutes
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Free speech crisis on campus?
2019-Dec-22
28 minutes
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The Bonhoeffer moment
2019-Dec-15
28 minutes
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Happy?
2019-Dec-08
28 minutes
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