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Brain in a Vat — 295 episodes · page 1 of 3
Decoding Reactions: Signal and Noise in Personal Interactions | Mark Schroeder
The Truth About Honesty, Lies, and Deception | Christian Miller
The Costs of Open Borders | Lionel Shriver
The Man Who Exposed Jason Arday: Cancelled at Cambridge | Nathan Cofnas
Free Speech, Schools, and Children | Jimmy Mullen
Sexual Ethics on Campus: Consent and Power | Colin McGinn
The Philosophy of Pluribus | Spencer Case
The Time-Meaning Conundrum | Rivka Weinberg
Should You Need Permission to Take Medicine? | Jessica Flanigan
Can Torture Be Justified? | Stephen Kershnar
A World Without Scarcity | Steven Kotler
Living with Adversity | David Benatar
Risky Storytelling | Kevin Allison
Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Mental Health | Chloe Carmichael
The Bias against Conservatism in Higher Education | Amy Wax
The Nature of the Sexes | Tomás Bogardus (with Stephen Kershnar)
God Is Not Praiseworthy | Stephen Kershnar and Nathan Bray
Facial Distortions and Prosopometamorphopsia | Brad Duchaine (Rebroadcast)
Should We Stay or Should We Go | Lionel Shriver (Rebroadcast)
Parental Licensing | Connor Kianpour (Rebroadcast)
Can AI Bring Our Loved Ones Back? Inside Reflekta AI’s Digital Afterlife | Miles Spencer
Cultural Appropriation | Stephen Kershnar (Rebroadcast)
Aztec Philosophy: What the Aztecs Knew About Life | Sebastian Purcell
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Using AI to Fight Crime | David Boonin (Rebroadcast)
Are We Free at Work? Marx on Capitalism Today | Brian Leiter
The Possible Worlds of David Lewis | Barry Lam (Rebroadcast)
Procreative Ethics | Rivka Weinberg (Rebroadcast)
Imagine There’s No Gender | Holly Lawford-Smith [with Raja Halwani] (Rebroadcast)
The Moral Lives of Spies | Cécile Fabre
The Right to Sex | Raja Halwani (Rebroadcast)
Decriminalizing Sex Work | Jessica Flanigan
Disgust | Martha Nussbaum (Rebroadcast)
Patriotism Unpacked | Spencer Case (Rebroadcast)
Is Tarot a Tool for Thought? | Georgi Gardiner
Living The Philosophical Life | Agnes Callard
The Israel Palestine Conflict | David Benatar
The Ideal State: An AI Debate - Plato vs Nozick
Organ Markets | James Stacey Taylor (Rebroadcast)
Academic Freedom in Universities | Eric Sampson and Rebecca Tuvel
Children's Rights and Parenting | Connor Kianpour and Ella Coleman
Are Conspiracy Theories Right? | Jared Millson and Ella Coleman
Animal Liberation Now | Peter Singer (Rebroadcast)
End Taxes? | Jessica Flanigan
The Problem with Democracy | Jason Brennan (Rebroadcast)
Mass Shootings | Kurt Blankschaen
The Problems with Virtue Ethics | Travis Timmerman
The End Goal of Wokeness | Nathan Cofnas
Effective Altruism and Making a Difference | Jacob Bauer
Ultimate Meaning | Rivka Weinberg (Rebroadcast)
Affirmative Action and Medical School | Stephen Kershnar
Should Only Queer Actors Play Queer Roles? | Kurt Blankschaen & Travis Timmerman
The Moral Circle: Are AI and Animals Included? | Jeff Sebo
Don't Vote | Chris Freiman with Rebecca Tuvel
Alix Spiegel on Storytelling | Alix Spiegel
Why It's Okay to Eat Meat - Or Is It? | Dan Shahar (Rebroadcast)
Who was Derek Parfit? | David Edmonds (Rebroadcast)
The Philosophy of Severance | Travis Timmerman (Rebroadcast)
Anti-Semitism | Mark Oppenheimer (Rebroadcast)
What Is a Woman? | Alex Byrne (Rebroadcast)
Sex Work or Prostitution? | Lori Watson (Rebroadcast)
Is Monogamy Wrong? | Harry Chalmers (Rebroadcast)
The Privacy Paradox | David Boonin (Rebroadcast)
Benatar on Bullshit | With Rebecca Tuvel
Unravelling “White Privilege” | Spencer Case
Cultural Appropriation | Stephen Kershnar
Determinism, Free Will, and the Meaning of Life | Stephen Maitzen
Abortion: An AI Debate - Mill vs Kant
Will Machines Rule the World? | Barry Smith
Reimagining Democracy as Lottocracy | Alexander Guerrero (With Travis Timmerman)
Navigating Kinky Sex: Ethics, Safety, and Risk | Georgi Gardiner
Comedy, Satire, and Laughing at the Uncomfortable | John Vlismas
The Value of Bad Movies | Matt Strohl (with Travis Timmerman)
Refugees and Border Control | Bradley Hillier-Smith
Exploring Alien Civilizations | Isaac Arthur
Can Animals Create Art? | Yolandi Coetser
Population Decline and Pronatalism | Paul Morland
Love and Limerence | Georgi Gardiner
Aliens, Social Groups, and the Golden Record | Jason Werbeloff
Ayn Rand and the Ethics of Selfishness | Tara Smith
The Fine-Tuning Argument for God’s Existence | Aaron Zimmer (with Nathan Bray)
Fatphobia | Kate Manne (with Travis Timmerman)
Money, Institutions, and Social Groups | J. P. Smit
Left vs Right, Polarization, and Political Legitimacy | Oliver Traldi
The Ethics of Swearing | Rebecca Roache [with Travis Timmerman]
Patriotism Unpacked | Spencer Case
The Ethics of Dark Humor | David Shoemaker
Is Israel’s War Unjust? | Mark Oppenheimer vs Raja Halwani
Gaming and Friendship | Nicholas Baima
Gaming: Dangerous or Beneficial? | Sarah Malanowski
The Edges of Philosophy: Good, Bad, and the Controversial | Travis Timmerman
Helpful Abortion Restrictions? | Perry Hendricks
Race and IQ | Nathan Cofnas
Lionel Shriver on the Dangers of Manic Equality
Gun Control | Eric Sampson (Rebroadcast)
Ethical Quandaries of Autonomous Weapon Systems | Afonso Seixas-Nunes
Paediatric Gender Medicine | Moti Gorin and Holly Lawford-Smith
Peter Singer on Animal Liberation Now
We Should Want Immortality | John Martin Fischer
Against Immortality | Stephen Cave