Philosophy For Our Times

524 Episodes

1. The Enlightenment is racist (and why) | Kehinde Andrews

   Published: 9/29/2025
2. The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era

   Published: 9/16/2025
3. Psychedelics and the structure of reality | Julian Baggini, Eileen Hall, and James Rucker

   Published: 9/12/2025
4. The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?

   Published: 9/9/2025
5. A landscape of consciousness | Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Hilary Lawson

   Published: 9/2/2025
6. Will psychedelics revolutionize mental health treatment? | Matthew Johnson, Shayla Love, and Kevin Sabet

   Published: 8/29/2025
7. The illusion of separation | Jessica Frazier on the Monism of Hindu philosophy

   Published: 8/26/2025
8. The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen

   Published: 8/20/2025
9. Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby

   Published: 8/12/2025
10. Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes

    Published: 8/5/2025
11. Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia

    Published: 7/29/2025
12. The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more

    Published: 7/25/2025
13. How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith

    Published: 7/22/2025
14. Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom

    Published: 7/15/2025
15. More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz

    Published: 7/11/2025
16. The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn

    Published: 7/8/2025
17. Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio

    Published: 7/2/2025
18. The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments

    Published: 6/27/2025
19. Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer

    Published: 6/24/2025
20. The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson

    Published: 6/20/2025