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Philosophy For Our Times

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Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.

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1
Neighbours before strangers | Alain de Botton, Seyla Benhabib and Tommy Curry
50:22 Mar 10, 2026
2
The strange search for knowledge in the age of post-truth | Steve Fuller
28:55 Mar 3, 2026
3
The philosophy of performance | Michelle Terry
29:21 Feb 24, 2026
4
The end of materialism | Àlex Gómez-Marín
35:02 Feb 17, 2026
5
The relationship between mind and matter | Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Carlo Rovelli
50:50 Feb 10, 2026
6
Freedom and Fate
53:14 Jan 27, 2026
7
The search for higher states of consciousness | Philosopher Jessica Frazier
38:06 Jan 13, 2026
8
Should we be transgressive? The limits and potential of transgressiveness | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen
48:16 Jan 6, 2026
9
Perversity and the limits of rational | Psychologist Paul Bloom
22:55 Dec 30, 2025
10
Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress
36:18 Dec 16, 2025
11
Analytic or Continental philosophy | Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich
49:07 Dec 9, 2025
12
How Words Warp Reality | Nick Enfield
32:53 Dec 4, 2025
13
Consciousness and psychedelics: In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
31:33 Nov 28, 2025
14
The philosophy of religion and love with Alain de Botton and Alex O'Connor
26:11 Nov 25, 2025
15
Mazes of the mind: The philosophy of neuroscience | Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore, Bryan Appleyard
47:58 Nov 12, 2025
16
In search of nothing | David Deutsch, Amanda Gefter, Lee Smolin
1:00:17 Nov 6, 2025
17
Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of the apocalypse
44:25 Oct 31, 2025
18
The importance of giving up | Adam Phillips
27:14 Oct 28, 2025
19
Slavoj Žižek on philosophy today | The madness of reality
38:03 Oct 20, 2025
20
How to fathom timelessness | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
31:23 Oct 14, 2025
21
After postmodernism | Hilary Lawson, Robin van den Akker, Abby Innes, Sophie Scott-Brown
47:13 Oct 10, 2025
22
The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič
29:46 Oct 6, 2025
23
The Enlightenment is racist (and why) | Kehinde Andrews
20:38 Sep 29, 2025
24
The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era
29:29 Sep 16, 2025
25
Psychedelics and the structure of reality | Julian Baggini, Eileen Hall, and James Rucker
46:51 Sep 12, 2025
26
The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?
48:58 Sep 9, 2025
27
A landscape of consciousness | Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Hilary Lawson
41:19 Sep 2, 2025
28
Will psychedelics revolutionize mental health treatment? | Matthew Johnson, Shayla Love, and Kevin Sabet
49:34 Aug 29, 2025
29
The illusion of separation | Jessica Frazier on the Monism of Hindu philosophy
24:39 Aug 26, 2025
30
The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen
27:44 Aug 20, 2025
31
Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby
40:10 Aug 12, 2025
32
Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes
41:11 Aug 5, 2025
33
Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia
27:49 Jul 29, 2025
34
The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more
44:01 Jul 25, 2025
35
How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith
21:13 Jul 22, 2025
36
Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom
27:15 Jul 15, 2025
37
More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz
18:32 Jul 11, 2025
38
The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn
43:28 Jul 8, 2025
39
Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio
30:56 Jul 2, 2025
40
The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments
45:09 Jun 27, 2025
41
Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer
22:46 Jun 24, 2025
42
The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson
42:00 Jun 20, 2025
43
A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton
44:37 Jun 17, 2025
44
The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton
21:34 Jun 10, 2025
45
Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier
45:53 Jun 3, 2025
46
Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich
24:19 May 29, 2025
47
The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia
50:35 May 20, 2025
48
Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes
31:25 May 16, 2025
49
The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely
46:48 May 13, 2025
50
Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky
26:24 May 7, 2025
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