All Episodes

Lani Watson on the Power of Questions

Peter Singer on Ending Innocent Lives

Jing Hu on Songzi on Insults and Shame

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Mattering

Monima Chadha on Responsibility Without Selves

Carissa Veliz on Prophecy

Chike Jeffers on Douglass and Du Bois

Alexander Guerrero on Lottocracy

Tarun Khaitan on Decolonising Institutions

Janet Radcliffe Richards on What is Philosophy?

Chike Jeffers on Africana Philosophy

Angie Hobbs on Plato on Power

Samuel Scheffler on Grief and Time

Edouard Machery on Variations in Responses to Thought Experiments

Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment

Carlos Alberto Sánchez on Mexican Philosophy

Ellie Robson on Mary Midgley on Animals

Sari Nusseibeh on Philosophy and Conflict

Robert Talisse on Civic Solitude

Hanno Sauer on The World History of Morality

Takeshi Morisato on Japanese Philosophy

Melissa Lane on Plato, Rule, and Office

Agnes Callard on Lessons from Socrates

Emily Herring on Henri Bergson

Lyndsey Stonebridge on the Life and Mind of Hannah Arendt

Ofra Magidor on Epistemicism and Moral Vagueness

Robert Williams on Decision Making Under Indeterminacy

Peter Godfrey Smith on Understanding Minds

Richard Bourke on Hegel's Philosophy of History

Jonathan Birch on the Edge of Sentience

Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey's Life and Thought

Elizabeth Harman on Moral Heroes

Walter Sinnott Armstrong on AI and Morality

David Edmonds on the Life and Philosophy of Derek Parfit

Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

Mark Rowe on J.L.Austin

James Klagge on Wittgenstein

David Chalmers on Technophiloosphy and the Extended Mind

Agnes Callard on Sex

Michael Lamb on Augustine on Hope

Seth Lazar on Political Philosophy in the Age of AI

Hannah Dawson on Mary Wollstonecraft

Scott Hershovitz on Law and Morality

Carissa Veliz on Digital Ethics

Theron Pummer on the Rules of Rescue

William MacAskill on Longtermism

Kieran Setiya on Loneliness

Edith Hall on Aristotle's Way

L.A. Paul on Transformative Experience

Josiah Ober on the Civic Bargain

Skye Cleary on Authenticity

Peter Railton on AI and Ethics

Clare Chambers on the Unmodified Body

Peter Singer on Consequentialism

Cecile Fabre on the Ethics of Spying

Ro Khanna on Digital Dignity

Benjamin Lipscomb on 4 Women Philosophers

Paul Bloom on Psychological Hedonism,

Myisha Cherry on Rage

Agnes Callard on Complaint

Arash Abizadeh on Thomas Hobbes' Ethics

Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech

Suki Finn on the Metaphysics of Nothing

Peter Salmon on Derrida on Deconstruction

David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer on Compassion

Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt on Pluralism

David Edmonds on Undercover Robot

Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Death

Kate Manne on Misogyny and Male Entitlement

Liam Bright on Verificationism

David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker

Nigel Warburton on A Little History of Philosophy

Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philip Goff on Galileo and Consciousness

Elizabeth Anderson on 'Let's Talk'

Christian List on Free Will

Emily Thomas on Wildly Implausible Metaphysics

James Wilson on Real World Ethics

Kate Kirkpatrick on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir

Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?

Christian Miller on the Character Gap

Philip Pettit on the Birth of Ethics

Helen Beebee on Possible Worlds

Paul Sagar on Scepticism about Philosophy

Katherine Hawley on Trustworthiness

Teresa Bejan on Civility

Robert B. Talisse on Overdoing Democracy

Robert Wright on Why Buddhism is True

Larry Temkin on Obligations to the Needy

Sarah Fine on the Right to Exclude

Eric Schwitzgebel on Scepticism

Philip Pettit on Robustly Demanding Goods

Katalin Farkas on Knowing a Person

Roger Scruton on Human Nature

Anil Seth on the Real Problem of Consciousness

Michael Puett on Ritual in Chinese Philosophy

Aaron Meskin on the Definition of Art

Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann on Disagreement About Taste

Andy Clark on The Extended Mind

Stephen Davies on Art and Evolution

Eileen John on Art and Morality

Chris Frith on The Point of Consciousness

Keith Frankish on Conscious Thought

Amia Srinivasan on What is a Woman?

Kate Jeffery on Concepts and Representation

Anthony Gottlieb on Pierre Bayle

Kathleen Stock on Fiction and the Emotions

David Miller on Immigration

Sophie Scott on the Meaning of Laughter

Peter Godfrey-Smith on Mental Representations

Noel Carroll on Criticism

Cecile Fabre on Remembrance

Jesse Prinz on Thinking with Pictures

Kieran Setiya on the Mid-Life Crisis

Catherine Wilson on Epicureanism

Gregg Caruso on Freewill and Punishment

Greg Currie on the Philosophy of Film

Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body

Michael Devitt on Experimental Semantics

Steven Hyman on Categorising Mental Disorders

Leif Wenar on Trade and Tyranny

Katrin Flikschuh on Philosophy in Africa

Carlo Rovelli on Philosophy and Physics

John Worrall on Evidence-Based Medicine

Joshua Greene on the Construction of Thought

Graham Priest on Buddhism and Philosophy

Jesse Prinz on Is Everything Socially Constructed?

Massimo Pigliucci on the Demarcation Problem

David Owens on Duty

Kimberley Brownlee on Social Deprivation

Shelly Kagan on Speciesism

Susan James on Foucault and Knowledge

Larry Temkin on Transitivity

William B. Irvine on Living Stoically

Steven Lukes on Power

Theodore Zeldin on Philosophy and History

Jesse Prinz on Art and Emotion

Cassim Quassam on Conspiracy Theories

Tim Williamson on the Appeal of Relativism

Shaun Nichols on Death and the Self

Rebecca Roache on Swearing

Lisa Bortolotti on Irrationality

Jonathan Webber on Deceiving With Words

Simon Critchley on Suicide

Christine Korsgaard on the Status of Animals

Meira Levinson on the Aims of Education

Lucy Allais on Forgiveness

Who is the most impressive philosopher you've met? A compilation.

Julia Annas on What is Virtue Ethics For?

Hugh Mellor on Probability

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Progress in Philosophy

Adam Swift on Parental Partiality

Keith Frankish on the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia

Ted Honderich on What It Is to be Conscious

John Dupre on Genomics

Peter Lamarque on Literature and Truth

Jennifer Nagel on Intuitions about Knoweldge

Tamar Gendler on Why Philosophers Use Examples

Amia Srinivasan on Genealogy

Seth Lazar on Sparing Civilians in War

Chris Betram on Rousseau's Moral Psychology

Roger Scruton on the Sacred

Regina Rini on the Moral Self and Psychology

Simon Blackburn on Narcissism

Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare

Tom Stoneham on George Berkeley's Immaterialism

Michael Ignatieff on Political Theory and Political Practice

Stephen Darwall on Moral Accountability

David Papineau on Philosophy and Sport

Roberto Mangabeira Unger on Deep Freedom

Nicola Lacey on H.L.A.Hart and Legal Positivism

John Skorupski on Normativity

Tim Scanlon on What's Wrong with Inequality?

Emma Borg on Language and Context

Patricia Churchland on Self Control

Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias

Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics

Rom Harre on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy

Robert Talisse on the Importance of Arguments in Politics

John Tasioulas on Human Rights

Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors

Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism

David Edmonds on Trolley Problems

Jessica Moss on Weakness of Will

Michael Martin on Hume on Taste

Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife

Noel Carroll on Humour and Morality

Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room

Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues

Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures

Leslie Green on Same Sex Marriage

John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

Noel Malcolm on Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

John Gardner on Constitutions

Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

Tom Sorell on Surveillance

John Campbell on Schizophrenia

Kendall Walton on Photography

Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History

Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?

Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man

Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consicousness

Liane Young on Mind and Morality

Gary Francione on Animal Abolitionism

Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

Tim Crane on Non-Existence

Michael Tye on Pain

Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting

Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Rae Langton on Hate Speech

Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Huw Price on Backward Causation

Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism

Tim Lewens on Selling Organs (originally on Bioethics Bites)

John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness

Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck

Onora O'Neill on Trust (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will

NIck Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias

Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Philip Pettit on Republicanism

Jeff McMahan on Moral Status (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History

Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies (originally on Bioethics Bites)

Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness

Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value

Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language

Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibilityhttp

Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0

Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?http

Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction

Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

Tim Crane on Animal Minds

Sean Kelly on Homer and Philosophy

Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttp://www.dan.sperber.fr/

Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew

Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV

Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

Victor Tadros on Punishment

Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain

Simon May on Love

Paul Russell on David Hume's Treatise

Pascal Bruckner on the Pursuit of Happiness

Noel Carroll on Humour

Catharine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

Sarah Bakewell on Montaigne

Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on Truth

Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality

Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War

Michael Sandel on Justice

Paul Russell on Fate

Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities

Philip Pettit on Group Agency

Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature

Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like

What is Philosophy?

Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility

Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality

Michael Dummett on Frege

Daniel Everett on the Nature of Languag

Cynthia Freeland on Portraits

Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

Hillel Steiner on Exploitation

Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation

Susan Wolf on Meaning in Life

Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism

Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

David Chalmers on the Singularity

Raymond Geuss on Realism in Political Philosophy

Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic

Ned Block on Consciousness

Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century

Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self

Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros

Robert B. Talisse on Pragmatism

Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

Tzvetan Todorov on the Englightenment Today

Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell on Descriptions

Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions

Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics

John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

John Armstrong on What You Can Do With Philosophy

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God

Sabine Doring on Emotion

Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold

Allen Buchanan on Enhancement

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology

Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics

Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying

Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor

Sebastian Gardner on Sartre on Bad Faith

Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy

David Papineau on Scientific Realism

Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

Chandran Kukathas on Genocide

M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry

Raymond Tallis on Parmenides

Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God

Wendy Brown on Tolerance

Anne Phillips on Political Representation

Anthony Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime

Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

Raymond Geuss on Real Politics

Roger Crisp on Virtue

Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics

Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

Peter Cave on Paradoxes

Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience

Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography

M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth

Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

Alex Neill - the Paradox of Tragedy

Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil

Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights

Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Modern Society

John Broome on Weighing Lives

Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness

John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency

Tim Scanlon on Free Speech

Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby

Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport

Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation

Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals

Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

David Miller on National Responsibility

Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures

Raimond Gaita on Torture

Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art

Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

Thomas Pink on Free Will

Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

Hugh Mellor on Time

Richard Tuck on Free Riding

Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy

Richard Norman on Humanism

Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

Mark Vernon on Friendship

G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth

Barry Stroud on Scepticism

Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments

Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness

Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy

Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent

Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy

Tim Crane on Mind and Body

Jonathan Ree on Philosophy as an Art

Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

Peter Adamson on Avicenna

Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism

Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage

Timothy Williamson on Vagueness

David Papineau on Physicalism

Anthony Grayling on Atheism

Adrian Moore on Infinity

Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism

Edward Craig - What is Philosophy?

Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

Barry Smith on Wine

Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life

Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave