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03 | Unsteady State | What the Right gets wrong about Nietzsche
02 | Unsteady State | Who owns Antarctica?
01 | Unsteady State | Politics and the good life
Technology and the lure of ancient Athens
Sympathy, himpathy and feminism
Signal, noise and interpersonal conflict
Feminism, generosity and cross-cultural support
Getting angry at the system
Who's afraid of Cultural Marxism?
Habermas and the retreat of reason
Visual art as philosophy
How smart are machines, anyway?
Hegel: The philosopher with the (one) big idea
Eco-grief and environmental loss
Colonising space
Can pregnancy be a job? the ethics of commercial surrogacy
Belief, emotion and trust
Communication in an age of crisis
Can sport survive AI?
Purity, filth and 'promiscuous defecators': why we're weird about poo
Bad faith and 'just asking questions'
'Natural' disasters and climate justice
Where am I? Buddhist philosophy and the self
Common sense vs reason: when philosophy gets weird
Adam Smith, economics and moral philosophy
Can AIs be friends?
Kant and religion
Speech acts and AI
'Being a burden' and assisted dying
Sincerity, irony and metamodernism
Is it time to get rid of legal gender status?
Medieval Jewish philosophy and the lessons of history
The reluctant feminist: Clara Zetkin and International Women's Day
Move fast, break everything: Nick Land and accelerationism
Can 'planetary civics' save us from techno-catastrophe?
Racism and racial regimes
Do we still love art?
Who am I? Individual and collective identity
What's the point of education?
Albert Camus, fascism and America
How feminism changed primatology
What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'
Buddhism and nationalism
Innocence and 'child rescue' in the colonial imagination
Distributed intelligence and the problem with 'doing your own research'
Can atheists be virtuous? The moral philosophy of Catharine Trotter Cockburn
What are we doing when we read?
Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer
Poverty and punishment
Knowledge, culture and parenting apps
The contradictions of democracy
Environmental techno-utopias: building nature better
Slopaganda
Indigenous literature and the academy in Australia
Albert Camus, fascism and America
What beauty apps are doing to us
Are babies conscious?
How AI could transform reading
Is it time to get rid of legal gender status?
Who's responsible for extreme beliefs?
Is a blobfish beautiful or ugly? Science, aesthetics and the natural world
Who's responsible for solving the world's problems—me, or The System?
Disability, discrimination and disgust: why gut issues are a philosophical problem
Nature, gender and discomfort with 'woke' language
What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'
Is it time to bring back natural philosophy?
Judgement and remorse: a conversation with Raimond Gaita
Freud, Wittgenstein and the unconscious
Buddhism and nationalism
Philosophy's problem with its history
Authority and medical diagnosis
Nationalism and immigration
Speech acts and AI
Belief, emotion and trust
In defence of workism
How feminism changed primatology
History and the left
Henri Bergson, philosopher of past and future
Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
LIVE EVENT: What use is philosophy?
Queer theory and animal rights
AI, reliability and trust
Innocence and "child rescue" in the colonial imagination
What is a conspiracy theory?
Getting past post-truth
Expanding our moral circle
Knowing what things are like
How important is aesthetic education?
Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars
Auschwitz: experiencing what can't be experienced
Summer season: History and narrative
Summer season: Libertarianism and freedom
Summer season: What is swearing?
Summer season: How philosophy fell in love with language
Summer season: Music, taste and AI
Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic
Sense, sensibility and the authentic self
Philosophy and mysticism