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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