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Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.
In this panel, philosophy professors Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Babette Babich discuss the future of thought for Western philosophy and Europe, and if the division between these schools is obsolete.
This episode explores how language shapes perception and reasoning, revealing that while it powerfully persuades and reframes reality, it often distorts truth—highlighting the importance of understanding language’s limits in an era of misinformation.
Join well-known public speakers and writers Alain de Botton and Alex O'Connor as they talk through what philosophy can offer us, why we should study love, and what the role of religion is in philosophy and in our lives.
Join Iain McGilchrist, famous psychologist and researcher of the brain, the late neuroscientist and neurobiologist Colin Blakemore, and journalist Bryan Appleyard delve into the nitty-gritty of neuroscience and what it has to say on major philosophical questions.
What is nothing? Join leading theoretical physicists David Deutsch and Lee Smolin, alongside science writer Amanda Gefter, as they discuss this age-old question.
Slavoj Žižek is back in a new interview where he takes us through his thoughts on the role of philosophy, the future of sex, his fear and love of AI and, as always, so much more.
This episode explores the lasting impact of postmodernism on culture and academia, the challenges it poses to objective truth, and considers whether emerging alternatives like metamodernism or a revival of Enlightenment rationality offer viable paths forward.
Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič sees ChatGPT as a form of our collective unconscious that has absorbed all discourse at the expense of the subject, analysing especially the Right's use of it to clamp down on alternatives.
Is the unconscious real or just an invention? Join psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, psychologist Barbara Tversky, and philosopher Edward Harcourt as they discuss this question.
Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.
