All Episodes

Wittgenstein vs Socrates on Definitions and Explanations (James Klagge)

What Distinguishes a Person from a Word? The Thought of C. S. Peirce

Killing Civilians in War (Jeff McMahan)

The Truth is Terrible - Nietzsche's Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence

2 The Broader Philosophical Context - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

David Papineau on Consciousness

John Locke's Political Philosophy

Sidgwick's Ethics - Peter Singer (2017)

Robert Nozick on Karl Popper's Anti-Inductivism (2001)

Romanticism, Politics, and Ethics - Isaiah Berlin (1963)

Real Direct Realism

John Searle Interview on Perception and Philosophy of Mind

Ernest Nagel on the Philosophy of Science (1954)

The Problem of Self-Knowledge

Alasdair MacIntyre on the Fate of Theism/Atheism and Morals (1966)

Simone de Beauvoir on Existentialism and God (1959)

Identity and the Mind - Raymond Tallis (2007)

The Continuum of Personhood

Levinas on the Face

Debate of the Century: What it Means to be Human (2002)

Death by Thomas Nagel

The Hiddenness of God (Peter van Inwagen)

Wittgenstein - The Unsayable and Limits of Thought

1 Just What is Kant's "Project"? - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Political Liberalism and its End

Intro to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Ray Monk)

1 Romanticism - In Search of a Definition (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Wittgenstein's Contribution to Philosophy

The Problem of Free Will

The Worlds of Existentialism - Maurice S. Friedman (1966)

Aristotle's Ethics - Happiness, Pleasure, and Friendship (History of Philosophy)

Prerequisites of Language Acquisition - Noam Chomsky (1964)

Reasons, Rationality, and Heuristics - Emma Borg (2024)

4 The Restrained Romantics - Kant, Schiller and Fichte (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Gadamer on Schopenhauer (1991)

G. A. Cohen does Isaiah Berlin (1991)

Words and Philosophy - Hugh Mellor (1978)

The Eclipse of Reason - Sidney Morgenbesser (1967)

Justice for Hedgehogs - Ronald Dworkin (2011)

5 Unbridled Romanticism - Fichte, Schelling, and Symbols (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Personal Identity and the Self

Schopenhauer's Thought

Walter Kaufmann on Oedipus and the Death of Tragedy (1974)

Beginning of 'The Absurd' by Thomas Nagel

8 Reid on the Principle of Morals - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

John Locke - Antony Flew (1977)

Hannah Arendt on Ideology (1968)

The Guts of the Frankfurt School: Reexamining Marx and the Marriage with Freud (Marcuse and Bryan Magee)

Pragmatism and Truth - Rorty, Putnam, and Conant (2002)

Hannah Arendt on Power and Violence (1968)

Political Equality

Cavell and Skepticism - Hilary Putnam (2005)

Creativity in Science - Ernest Nagel (1968)

Nationhood - Kwame Anthony Appiah (2016)

Is God an Unnecessary Hypothesis?

What is Distinctive of Human Thought?

The Experience Machine

5 Idealisms and their Refutations - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Two Kinds of Freedom: Negative vs Positive

On Anger

2 Reid and Common Sense Realism - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Daniel Dennett Interview on Mind, Matter and Meaning

The Hallmark of a Philosophical Question (Isaiah Berlin and Bryan Magee)

Rawls vs Nozick (Ronald Dworkin)

Resurrection of the Body? Physicalism and the Possibility of Life After Death

6 Concepts, Judgment and Deduction of the Categories - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

3 David Hume on Causation - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Hegel and his Heirs

What Justifies the State?

Gadamer on Education and Tradition (1979)

5 David Hume on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

4 Synthetic A Priori Judgments - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Hilary Putnam on Science and Non-Science (1977)

Plato on Knowledge - The Meno and Theaetetus (History of Philosophy)

Philosophy and Our Mental Life - Hilary Putnam (1973)

3 Space, Time and the "Analogies of Experiences" - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Gadamer on Language and Thought (1973)

Can Machines Become Conscious? (2025)

Isaiah Berlin Interview on Freedom (1974)

Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God - Ken Gemes

Sidney Morgenbesser on Naturalism (1966)

The Virtual and The Real (David Chalmers)

Deep Blue's Victory: Dennett and Dreyfus on AI (1997)

The Afterlife: How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do

Ernest Nagel on Current Issues in Philosophy of Science (1962)

Frank Jackson on the Knowledge Argument

The Right to Death - Antony Flew (1980)

Iris Murdoch on the Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited (1959)

Language, Thought, and Politics

Animal Selves and the Good - Christine Korsgaard (2016)

Thomas Kuhn Speaking (1995)

What Is Rationality, Anyway?

Reason, Tone and Judgment - Raimond Gaita (2013)

The Supremacy of Method - Ernest Nagel (1973)

Same-Sex Marriage Arguments

Philosophy of Mathematics and Frege - Michael Dummett (1994)

Theories of Welfare - Ethics and Society Course

2 Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism - Cartesian and Kantian Skepticism

2 Romanticism - First Attack on Enlightenment (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Russell-Copleston Debate on God's Existence (1948)

Science and Free Will - Herbert Feigl (1963)

Evolution vs Ethics - Peter Singer

The Evolution of "Why" as the Key to Free Will - Daniel Dennett

What Is Probability? Difficulties Understanding Probability

Political Philosophy and John Rawls

The Legacy of John Rawls

Free Will Pessimism

The Thought of Philippa Foot

Foundations of Liberal Equality 1 - Ronald Dworkin (1988)

Metaphilosophy and Russell vs Wittgenstein on Judgment

Wittgenstein on the Mind - Norman Malcolm (1968)

6 Romanticism - The Lasting Effects (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

8 The Paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Western Culture - Kwame Anthony Appiah (2016)

6 Reid on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Revising Logic - Graham Priest

Reconciling Subjectivity and Substance: Hegel's Critique of Pure Personhood

Knowledge and Scepticism - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)

Perception, Abstraction and Idealism - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)

7 The "Self" and Synthetic Unity of Apperception - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)

Reasons for Action: Introducing Common-Sense Psychology - Emma Borg (2024)

1 The "Representational" Theory of Knowledge - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Free Will - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)

The Loss of Absolute Authority - Hannah Arendt (1972)

Wittgenstein's Notion of Family Resemblance

4 Reid on Causation and Active Powers - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

7 Hume’s “Sentimentalist” Theory of Morals - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

A Reasonable Structure for Animal Rights - Christine Korsgaard

Aldous Huxley on the Ultimate Revolution (1962)

The Romantic Revolution in Politics and Morals - Isaiah Berlin (1969)

Foundations of Liberal Equality 2 - Ronald Dworkin (1988)

Examining the Ethics of the Unthinkable: The Holocaust and Bioethics - Arthur Caplan (1989)

The Absurdity of Moral Relativism and Subjectivism - A Polemic

Karl Popper on the Open Society (1974)

Reason and Feeling in Ethics - Brand Blanshard (1966)

Jerry Fodor Interview on Philosophy of Mind

Karl Popper on Observation and Induction (1989)

What is an Emotion?

Marx and Morality (Minerva)

Fallibilism's Payoff - Catherine Elgin

Gadamer on Augustine on Time (1987)

3 The True Fathers of Romanticism (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Honderich vs Penrose on Consciousness (1999)

Concepts vs Percepts (Ray Monk)

Bas van Fraassen on Empiricism (1990)

Hume on the Argument from Design

Nietzsche on the Value of Truth - Ken Gemes

The Making of a Philosopher - What is Meant by 'Can't'? (Isaiah Berlin)

Hannah Arendt on Modernity (1964)

Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Objection