Philosophy For Our Times

511 Episodes

1. Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 6/20/2025
8. A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton

   Published: 6/17/2025
9. The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton

   Published: 6/10/2025
10. Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier

    Published: 6/3/2025
11. Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich

    Published: 5/29/2025
12. The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia

    Published: 5/20/2025
13. Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes

    Published: 5/16/2025
14. The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely

    Published: 5/13/2025
15. Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky

    Published: 5/7/2025
16. Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism

    Published: 5/2/2025
17. The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple

    Published: 4/29/2025
18. Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach

    Published: 4/22/2025
19. The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François

    Published: 4/16/2025
20. The price of everything, value of nothing | Politics series | Daniel Susskind, Abby Innes, Will Hutton, Richard Kibble

    Published: 4/11/2025