Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ philosophy of identity, ethics, knowledge • education aims, reading and interpretation • politics: democracy, nationalism, fascism, post-truth • colonialism, Indigenous temporalities, literature • feminism, gender, queer theory • AI, propaganda, trust, authority • moral responsibility, welfare, disability, environmental futures
This podcast explores philosophy as a way of investigating everyday concepts and urgent public questions, moving between classic problems in logic, metaphysics, and ethics and contemporary debates shaped by politics, science, and technology. Across the episodes, listeners are guided through disputes about what it means to be a self, how identity can be individual or collective, and how responsibility is distributed when people form beliefs in misinformation-rich environments. The show frequently connects these themes to democratic life, examining tensions and contradictions within democracy, nationalism, immigration, and the conditions that can foster exclusion or political extremism.
A recurring focus is epistemology—how knowledge, trust, and authority are formed and challenged. Topics include conspiracy theories, “post-truth” culture, the limits of “doing your own research,” and the changing meaning of expertise in areas such as medical diagnosis. The podcast also examines how belief is entangled with emotion and trust, and what it would take to cultivate critical thinking, particularly in education.
Science and technology are treated not just as tools but as philosophical problems. Episodes consider AI’s role in communication and workplace authority, the reliability and opacity of algorithmic decision-making, the effects of AI on reading and education, and the rise of AI-driven propaganda. Other discussions take up biotechnology and environmental futures, questioning whether conservation should give way to ambitious redesigns of nature and what moral frameworks such projects require.
The podcast also engages with philosophy’s relationship to culture and history. It revisits major thinkers and intellectual traditions, reflects on clashes in academic style and disciplinary self-understanding, and examines reading, interpretation, and literary institutions. Social and political philosophy features strongly through attention to colonial histories, Indigenous concepts of time and justice, feminist interventions in science, disability and stigma, gender in law, and the ethical reach of the “moral circle” as it expands to include non-human animals, microbes, and potentially artificial beings.
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Episodes:
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Do we still love art?
2026-Feb-05
35 minutes
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Who am I? Individual and collective identity
2026-Jan-29
40 minutes
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What's the point of education?
2026-Jan-21
28 minutes
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Albert Camus, fascism and America
2026-Jan-14
46 minutes
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How feminism changed primatology
2026-Jan-07
34 minutes
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What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'
2025-Dec-31
29 minutes
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Buddhism and nationalism
2025-Dec-24
32 minutes
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Innocence and 'child rescue' in the colonial imagination
2025-Dec-17
37 minutes
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Distributed intelligence and the problem with 'doing your own research'
2025-Dec-10
32 minutes
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Can atheists be virtuous? The moral philosophy of Catharine Trotter Cockburn
2025-Dec-04
41 minutes
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What are we doing when we read?
2025-Nov-26
28 minutes
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Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer
2025-Nov-19
42 minutes
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Poverty and punishment
2025-Nov-13
37 minutes
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Knowledge, culture and parenting apps
2025-Nov-06
28 minutes
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The contradictions of democracy
2025-Oct-27
35 minutes
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Environmental techno-utopias: building nature better
2025-Oct-22
56 minutes
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Slopaganda
2025-Oct-14
35 minutes
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Indigenous literature and the academy in Australia
2025-Oct-09
28 minutes
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Albert Camus, fascism and America
2025-Oct-02
46 minutes
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What beauty apps are doing to us
2025-Sep-25
33 minutes
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Are babies conscious?
2025-Sep-18
41 minutes
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How AI could transform reading
2025-Sep-10
28 minutes
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Is it time to get rid of legal gender status?
2025-Sep-04
35 minutes
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Who's responsible for extreme beliefs?
2025-Aug-27
31 minutes
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Is a blobfish beautiful or ugly? Science, aesthetics and the natural world
2025-Aug-21
32 minutes
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Who's responsible for solving the world's problems—me, or The System?
2025-Aug-14
37 minutes
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Disability, discrimination and disgust: why gut issues are a philosophical problem
2025-Aug-08
28 minutes
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Nature, gender and discomfort with 'woke' language
2025-Jul-31
33 minutes
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What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'
2025-Jul-24
29 minutes
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Is it time to bring back natural philosophy?
2025-Jul-17
33 minutes
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Judgement and remorse: a conversation with Raimond Gaita
2025-Jul-10
28 minutes
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Freud, Wittgenstein and the unconscious
2025-Jul-03
29 minutes
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Buddhism and nationalism
2025-Jun-26
32 minutes
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Philosophy's problem with its history
2025-Jun-19
28 minutes
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Authority and medical diagnosis
2025-Jun-11
28 minutes
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Nationalism and immigration
2025-Jun-05
33 minutes
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Speech acts and AI
2025-May-29
34 minutes
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Belief, emotion and trust
2025-May-22
35 minutes
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In defence of workism
2025-May-14
31 minutes
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How feminism changed primatology
2025-May-07
34 minutes
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History and the left
2025-May-01
28 minutes
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Henri Bergson, philosopher of past and future
2025-Apr-23
34 minutes
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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
2025-Apr-16
31 minutes
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Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
2025-Apr-09
33 minutes
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LIVE EVENT: What use is philosophy?
2025-Apr-01
51 minutes
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Queer theory and animal rights
2025-Mar-27
37 minutes
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AI, reliability and trust
2025-Mar-18
33 minutes
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Innocence and "child rescue" in the colonial imagination
2025-Mar-13
37 minutes
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What is a conspiracy theory?
2025-Mar-06
28 minutes
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Getting past post-truth
2025-Feb-26
38 minutes
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Expanding our moral circle
2025-Feb-19
39 minutes
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Knowing what things are like
2025-Feb-12
31 minutes
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How important is aesthetic education?
2025-Feb-05
28 minutes
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Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars
2025-Jan-30
29 minutes
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Auschwitz: experiencing what can't be experienced
2025-Jan-23
33 minutes
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Summer season: History and narrative
2025-Jan-15
33 minutes
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Summer season: Libertarianism and freedom
2025-Jan-08
40 minutes
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Summer season: What is swearing?
2025-Jan-01
34 minutes
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Summer season: How philosophy fell in love with language
2024-Dec-25
28 minutes
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Summer season: Music, taste and AI
2024-Dec-18
42 minutes
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Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
2024-Dec-11
27 minutes
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Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic
2024-Dec-04
36 minutes
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Sense, sensibility and the authentic self
2024-Nov-27
34 minutes
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Philosophy and mysticism
2024-Nov-21
38 minutes
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Health care ethics: otherness and belonging
2024-Nov-13
28 minutes
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Sentience
2024-Nov-07
30 minutes
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Nationalism and immigration
2024-Oct-30
33 minutes
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Philosophy, history and religion
2024-Oct-24
40 minutes
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The 2024 Alan Saunders Lecture: Krushil Watene
2024-Oct-17
42 minutes
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Is there purpose in the cosmos?
2024-Oct-10
36 minutes
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Feminism and freedom
2024-Oct-03
40 minutes
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Indigenous literature in Australia
2024-Sep-25
28 minutes
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Deep ecology
2024-Sep-18
28 minutes
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AI and reading
2024-Sep-11
28 minutes
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The philosophy of history in China
2024-Sep-04
34 minutes
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Extremism, gender and science
2024-Aug-28
28 minutes
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Orwellian equality: What can this philosophical outsider teach us about how to live
2024-Aug-23
28 minutes
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Can philosophy save us from the tyranny of toxic positivity?
2024-Aug-16
28 minutes
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Why liberalism needs fewer defenders, and more devotees
2024-Aug-09
28 minutes
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What is AI doing to our humanity?
2024-Aug-02
28 minutes
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De-extinction, pt 2
2024-Jul-24
28 minutes
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De-extinction, pt 1
2024-Jul-17
28 minutes
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What's your story? Life narrative and "main character" thinking
2024-Jul-09
28 minutes
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History and narrative
2024-Jul-02
33 minutes
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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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