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101

Peter Singer on Animal Liberation Now

102

We Should Want Immortality | John Martin Fischer

103

Against Immortality | Stephen Cave

104

Immigration and Borders | Stephen Kershnar

105

Cascading Catastrophic Risks | Trond Undheim

106

The Ethics of Political Commemoration | Hans Gutbrod

107

Facial Distortions and Prosopometamorphopsia | Brad Duchaine

108

Pornography and Free Speech | Nadine Strossen and Holly Lawford-Smith

109

Unravelling “White Privilege” | Spencer Case

110

The Privacy Paradox | David Boonin

111

Dissecting Morality: Error Theory | Matt Lutz

112

The Morality Maze | Spencer Case

113

Why Israel's Response to Hamas Was Justified | Natasha Hausdorff

114

The Trouble with Gender | Alex Byrne

115

John Rawls: Justice as Fairness | Paul Weithman (Rebroadcast)

116

Near-Death Experiences | John Martin Fischer (Rebroadcast)

117

How To End Global Poverty | Andy Kuper (Rebroadcast)

118

Evolutionary Psychology | Justin Garson (Rebroadcast)

119

Trans women in sport: Is it fair? | Stephen Kershnar (Rebroadcast)

120

David Chalmers on Virtual Reality and The Simulation Argument (Rebroadcast)

121

Freedom | Ernst Roets and Martin Van Staaden

122

The Philosophy of Black Mirror's White Bear | Rebecca Tuvel

123

Why you should stop eating meat | Mylan Engel

124

David Benatar on the Israel Palestine Conflict

125

The Ethics of Killing in War | Jeff McMahan (Rebroadcast)

126

Pornography and Exploitation | Holly Lawford-Smith

127

Organ Markets | James Stacey Taylor

128

Is Monogamy Wrong? | Harry Chalmers

129

The Philosophy of Infinity Pool | Travis Timmerman

130

Oppenheimers on Barbenheimer

131

Stephen Kershnar on Cultural Appropriation

132

Sex work or prostitution? | Lori Watson

133

The Islam-Atheism Debate: Behind the Curtain

134

Death | Travis Timmerman

135

Luck and Knowledge | Mylan Engel

136

Who was Derek Parfit? | David Edmonds

137

Is Islam more rational than Atheism? | Eron Fasser, Mohammed Hijab, Mark Oppenheimer, Hamza Tzortzis

138

Imagine There’s No Gender | Holly Lawford-Smith (with Raja Halwani)

139

Hate Speech | Mark Oppenheimer (Live at St Andrews)

140

What is a woman? | Alex Byrne

141

Is Grieving Good for You? | Michael Cholbi

142

The Supreme Court Ban on Affirmative Action | David Benatar

143

Self-driving Cars and the Apocalypse | Ryan Jenkins (with Stephen Kershnar)

144

Animal Ethics | Thad Metz

145

Will there be peace in the middle east? | Raja Halwani

146

Friendship is Magic | Samuel Kimbriel

147

Anonymous Publishing | Ivar Hardman

148

Thought Experiments | Spencer Case

149

Conserving Monuments | Dan Demetriou

150

Why Americans Don't Owe Veterans Gratitude | Stephen Kershnar (with Spencer Case)

151

Procreative Ethics | Rivka Weinberg

152

Anti-Semitism | Mark Oppenheimer

153

Ultimate Meaning | Rivka Weinberg

154

Dystopian Technology | Ryan Jenkins, guest host Stephen Kershnar

155

Dark humor and censorship | Connor Kianpour, guest host Stephen Kershnar

156

David Benatar on Affirmative Action

157

Holocaust Responsibility | Spencer Case

158

Parental Licensing | Connor Kianpour

159

Amnesia and Split Identity | Jacob Derin

160

Is AI art unfair to artists? | James Helps

161

The Ethics of Pet Ownership | Cheryl Abbate

162

Conversations about Philosophy | Brain in a Vat

163

Stephen Kershnar on the Impossibility of Responsibility

164

End of the Year Special: A Look Back

165

David Benatar: The Meaning of Life [Remastered]

166

The Right to Sex | Raja Halwani

167

Lionel Shriver on Abominations

168

We Should Be More Pragmatic about Ethics | Andrew Sepielli

169

Do the guilty deserve punishment? | John Martin Fischer

170

African Ethics: A Superior Moral Framework? | Thaddeus Metz

171

Putnam on the Brain in a Vat | David Macarthur

172

Hillary Putnam on Morality | Mario de Caro

173

Using AI to Fight Crime | David Boonin

174

Freedom of the Press | Toby Young

175

Why it's okay to eat meat - or is it? | Dan Shahar

176

Is Your Gender Up to You? | Shaun Stanley

177

The Supreme Court and Abortion | Brian Leiter

178

Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

179

Should we silence defectors? | Connor Kianpour

180

Trans Sports | Jon Pike

181

The Problem with Democracy | Jason Brennan

182

Immortality | John Martin Fischer

183

Is Hate Speech Free Speech? | Nadine Strossen

184

Science and The Big Questions | Alexander Arnold

185

Music and Philosophy | Mark Linsenmayer

186

Effective Altruism | Theron Pummer

187

The Philosophy of Apology | Jeff Helmreich

188

The Philosophy of Everything Everywhere All at Once | Taylor Cyr

189

Lionel Shriver on Should We Stay or Should We Go

190

The Philosophy of Severance | Travis Timmerman

191

The Ethics of Killing in War | Jeff McMahan

192

Eureka! Why epiphanies matter | Sophie Grace Chappell

193

David Chalmers on Virtual Reality and The Simulation Argument

194

The Value of Truth | Simon Blackburn

195

The Creative Life | Theresa Hardman

196

The Kalam Cosmological Argument | Majesty of Reason

197

Trans women in sport: Is it fair? | Stephen Kershnar

198

Evolutionary Psychology | Justin Garson

199

The Philosophy of Dune | Adam Taylor

200

How to discover TRUTH | Galen Barry