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Philosopher's Zone — 247 episodes
'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
Health care ethics: otherness and belonging
Sentience
Nationalism and immigration
Philosophy, history and religion
The 2024 Alan Saunders Lecture: Krushil Watene
Is there purpose in the cosmos?
Feminism and freedom
Indigenous literature in Australia
Deep ecology
AI and reading
The philosophy of history in China
Extremism, gender and science
Orwellian equality: What can this philosophical outsider teach us about how to live
Can philosophy save us from the tyranny of toxic positivity?
Why liberalism needs fewer defenders, and more devotees
What is AI doing to our humanity?
De-extinction, pt 2
De-extinction, pt 1
What's your story? Life narrative and "main character" thinking
History and narrative
The ancient key to modern happiness
Fighting fatphobia with Kate Manne
The philosophy of emotions
Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee
Why time doesn't pass
Philosophy for tough times
Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
Obedience
Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
The predicament of existence
Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing
Intellectual humility
Freedom or liberty?
Philosophy, angst and hope
Music, taste and AI
The philosophy of twins
Philosophy, disability and the gut
Pornography and free speech
What are Australian philosophers thinking?
Queer vs the state
What is swearing?
Friendship
Transgender identity and experience
Gender, gaming and pop culture
Richard Rorty and America
Women philosophers in antiquity
Time in the time of COVID
Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
Libertarianism
The Cynics
The philosophy of biology
Banality, deception and evil
Defining Aboriginality
Race, biology and medicine
Is there purpose in the cosmos?
Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
Poverty and punishment
Free will, consciousness and AI: a conversation with Daniel Dennett
René Girard and victimhood
Beauty and AI
The pathology of ugliness
Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
Police abolition
Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
Friendship
Gaslighting
Why time doesn't pass
Exploring Tourette's
Philosophy and myth
Transgender identity and experience
How philosophy fell in love with language
Philosophy for tough times
Taking politics seriously
Gender, gaming and pop culture
Exploring the multiverse
Leadership
Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
Philosophy behind bars
Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
Richard Rorty and America
The anti-philosophers
De-extinction, pt 2
De-extinction, pt 1
Art and hate speech
Women and the canon
Data privacy and informed consent
Women philosophers in antiquity
Moral creativity
Tradition, modernity and crisis in Ukraine
The lessons of failure
A Buddhist perspective on the ethics of violence
On being a minority in philosophy
Skilled performance and cognition
China, Confucius and the courtyard
Values and goals
Pop, philosophy and politics
Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
Efficiency, productivity and excess
Philosophy and children
Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
Owning the public square
Philosophy behind bars
Causation and death
The prophetic vision of Günther Anders
How should we treat insects?
Philosophy and travel
Refugees and moral obligation
How Nietzsche extracts cheerfulness from suffering
Trust and scepticism in a post-truth world
Satanism
Housing part 3 - land rights
Housing part 2 - rent
Housing pt 1 - care ethics
Values and goals
What's new in death - part 2
What's new in death - part 1
Doctors and dualism
Art and hate speech
Simone de Beauvoir: becoming a woman
Ubuntu
Philosophy in a nutshell: The aphorism
The great and the good-enough
Pop, philosophy and politics
Edmund Burke, revolution and reform
Hegel, nature and the Anthropocene
The phenomenology of love
Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
Adoption and moral obligation
Identity politics
Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal?
Rupture and hope
Sex, death and chilli sauce
Philosophy and myth
The predicament of existence
Moral beauty and art
Philosophers in love
The ethics of uterus transplantation
Extremism
Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
Efficiency, productivity, excess
Consciousness and contemplation
Art and climate
China, Confucius and the courtyard
Stuff
What we talk about when we talk about race
The death of analytic philosophy?
Restlessness
Structural injustice and individual responsibility
Derrida and difficulty
The many worlds of David Lewis
Mathematics and the good life
Bad thinking and good people
The individual and the collective
Philosophy and psychedelic experience
Buddhist logic
Care ethics
Philosophy and children
Gender and gaming
What is dignity?
Yan Fu: China meets Western liberalism
The trouble with our moral evolution
RN Presents: This Much Is True
About time, part 4: The insect clock
About time, part 3: Time and perception
About time, part 2: Time in fiction