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Philosophy For Our Times

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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00:25:29

How important is rationality to humans? PART 1 |...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/12/10

Leading consciousness theorist Stuart Hameroff, evolutionary theory critic Subrena Smith, and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss the place of rationality in our thinking: if it is rightly or excessively emphasised.

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00:24:57

Challenging Peter Singer's Ethics

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/12/03

Philosopher Peter Singer discusses moral objectivity, the role of ethics without religion, resisting intuitions, and the future of Effective Altruism in a thought-provoking interview with IAI producer Charlie Barnett.

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00:30:46

The philosophy of extinction (or of the end of the...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/11/19

Philosopher Ben Ware charts the history and the possibilities offered by a philosophy of extinction, embracing the End of the World to see how it can help us.

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00:33:34

Halloween BONUS EPISODE | The philosophy of monsters,...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/11/01

Join the IAI team as we take you trick-or-treating through the philosophy of horror, the symbolic meaning of monsters, and the post-mortem value of corpses.

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00:27:34

Consciousness and the limits of science PART 2 | Sean...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/10/18

Sean Carroll, Ellen Langer, and Tamar Gendler continue their debate about science and the problem of consciousness

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00:26:57

The end is a new beginning | Philosopher Ben Ware

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/10/15

In an age of nihilism and existential angst, philosopher Ben Ware finds reasons to be hopeful.

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00:30:00

Consciousness and the limits of science PART 1 | Sean...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/10/08

Sean Carroll, Ellen Langer, and Tamar Gendler debate the possibility of science solving the problem of consciousness.

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00:26:26

Metaphysics and science: do we need both? PART 2

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/08/31

Physicists Eric Weinstein and Becky Parker, and philosopher Hilary Lawson debate whether metaphysics is still relevant in a science-dominated world.

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00:20:31

Metaphysics and science: do we need both? PART 1

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/08/28

Physicists Eric Weinstein and Becky Parker, and philosopher Hilary Lawson debate whether metaphysics is still relevant in a science-dominated world.

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00:14:28

Does life have meaning? PART 3: Nolen Gertz on...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/08/23

Philosopher Nolen Gertz on nihilism and the meaning of life.

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00:35:10

Summertime Soul Search PART 1: John VERVAEKE 'Solving...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/08/06

Award-winning psychologist and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke shares his years of research on the questions that haunt us: why are we devoid of meaning in the current moment, and what can we do about it?

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00:18:26

Epiphanies in philosophy PART 2 | Philosopher...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/07/19

Professor of Philosophy Sophie-Grace Chappell argues we should allow our epiphanies to guide our actions.

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00:17:15

Epiphanies in philosophy PART 1 | Philosopher...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/07/16

Professor of Philosophy Sophie-Grace Chappell argues we should allow our epiphanies to guide our actions.

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00:21:13

On the 'demons' of science | Jimena Canales interview

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/07/02

Jimena Canales interview on scientists and their 'demons'.

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00:41:27

Philosophy's linguistic turn: Was it a mistake? |...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/06/25

Join post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson, professor of logic Michael Potter and philosopher of language John Searle to learn more about the linguistic turn and its implications.

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00:58:13

Loving oneself and loving others | Carol Gilligan,...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/06/20

Carol Gilligan, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, and Richard Wrangham debate the dangers of altruism.

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00:35:04

Consciousness - a science or a philosophy? | Avshalom...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/06/11

Physicist and philosopher Avshalom Elitzur dissects science's limited understanding of consciousness and proposes a more philosophical, almost mystical, interpretation of it.

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00:59:44

The Perception Bias | Daniel Kahneman, Ellen Langer,...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/06/04

Cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman, psychologist Ellen Langer, and philosopher Hilary Lawson try to get to the bottom of how humans perceive, and if we can ever know truth or the world around us.

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00:28:34

Conspiracy and belief | Michael Shermer

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/05/21

American science writer Michael Shermer elucidates the reasons people tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories and what to do about it.

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00:49:11

The mystery of emergence | Suchitra Sebastian, Philip...

Philosophy For Our Times ·

2024/05/14

Suchitra Sebastian is a renowned scientist and a condensed matter physicist. She is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge where she is a Professor of Physics.Philip Goff is a leading philosopher of Consciousness in his field and a defender of panpsychism, the controversial proposal that everything contains consciousness, as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. Hilary Lawson is a philosopher and long-standing critic of realism, best known for his theory of

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