The Philosopher's Zone - Program podcast
By ABC Radio National
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Description
The Philosopher's Zone looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy. The program addresses the big philosophical questions and arguments. It also explores what philosophical analysis can contribute to our understanding of some of the fundamental and perplexing issues that face the world today.
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CleanMartin Luther King: political philosopher | We don’t routinely think of political figures as philosophers, but when but comes to Martin Luther King maybe we should. King was a deep thinker with a remarkably coherent vision of the moral life and a bracing take on some of the fundamental question | 4/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThinking Out Loud | Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society aims to bring a leading international thinker to Western Sydney University annually to present a series of public lectures. This year Rosi Braidotti will present The Human in the Age of T | 4/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe shadow of eugenics | Eugenics is a science that seems to belong back in the darkest days of the 20th century. But today, 'newgenics' has people worried, as reproductive technologies make it increasingly possible to filter out certain genetic disorders. How does this colour | 4/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOh, the Humanities | We often hear that the academic Humanities and social sciences are in crisis—underfunded, out of touch with the job market, hamstrung by political correctness and moral relativism. So why study philosophy? And could a good dose of scientific method he | 4/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThinking small | Understanding the human condition has been the province of many disciplines, but you wouldn’t necessarily expect microbiology to be among them. Think again! | 3/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPhilosophy for children: the why and the how | Children are natural philosophers — so why don’t we routinely teach them how to do philosophy? Some issues around that debate were aired at a recent public panel hosted by the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. | 3/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Fuller on post-truth | For many of us, 'post-truth' means a culture where appeals to prejudice and emotion trump rational policy discussion. But for Steve Fuller, post-truth is just a by-product of the institutionalisation of knowledge—including scientific knowledge. | 3/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanExtended minds, predictive processes, and Andy Clark | Andy Clark is a big name in what’s known as embodied and extended cognition. The theory positions the mind beyond the brain. If accurate, his ideas will have radical practical consequences well beyond the philosophy of mind. | 3/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe philosophy of parenting—part 4 | An authentic life will risk heartbreak for the highs—sounds like parenting. Matt Beard presents his final foray into the bewildering modern world of children, parents and families. | 2/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe philosophy of parenting—part 3 | Every parent knows the guilt that comes from being a ‘bad parent’—after you’ve lost your temper, given in to a tantrum and spoiled your precious little angel! It might affect how the child grows up, but how to work that out? | 2/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe philosophy of parenting—part 2 | Brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, those weird second cousins you never talk to… how might we define family—and why it matters. | 2/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe philosophy of parenting—part 1 | Should you have kids? Don’t look for sage advice—part 1 of a 4-part series. | 2/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe value of thought experiments | Drop those test tubes, take off your lab coat, pull up a comfy chair and think your way to scientific truth. | 1/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFuelling free will | Alfred Mele has four years and four million dollars trying to get to the bottom of free will. He learnt that it was like petrol. | 1/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCarlo Rovelli and his quantum problem | Carlo Rovelli on the desperate need for some conceptual engineering to dig quantum thinking out of a deep black hole. | 1/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStones rolling and the joy of ordinary objects | The structure of the universe is written in stone—maybe. Dana Goswick talks metaphysics. | 1/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAwesome ethics and the art of mushroom blading | Forget the meaning of life; an ethical definition of awesome is far more important. | 12/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEnid Blyton—the moral of the story | She might not be in vogue these days, but for one Cambridge philosopher Enid Blyton is serious moral business. | 12/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobot dogs dream of consciousness | What makes the human mind so distinctive? Perhaps the answer is in your dreams. | 12/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParental guidance recommended | The nature of Family could be more than a Christmas puzzle. | 12/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEnvy has its reasons | When and why might it be ok to hate your colleague’s promotion? | 12/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA tale of two universes | Philosophy and modern physics: a case of the irrelevant versus the impractical? | 11/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAutonomy, self, and substances | Substance abuse lets you say ‘it wasn’t me’. Then who was it? | 11/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGetting stuck: The midlife mess | Your midlife crisis: it’s more than you think. | 11/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Reformation: What's not to like? | Is it just a coincidence that the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation falls on the same year that Britain is trying to 'Brexit'? | 11/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnimals and the philosophy of friendship | Some of our best friends are animals. So where does that leave some humans we know? | 10/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBots, bankers and big brother | Would you trust a killer robot more than a banker? This philosopher does, and has his reasons. | 10/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFacts and trust in a post-truth world | We’re told it’s a post-truth world—so what’s left of the philosophy of knowledge? | 10/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPersonal identity: a primer | Who am I? Glad you asked; now for two millennia of thinking. | 10/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnother concept of race | Race is the hot button term of our era. But perhaps the time has come to update it with a more accurate concept. | 9/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVirtue, vice, sex, and robots | The robots have given rise to a distinctly modern dilemma: is there such a thing as an immoral fantasy? | 9/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTell me one thing that's absolutely true | Truth: a simple word that’s spawned a cosmos of theories, and caused a world of trouble. | 9/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTranscendence and the moderns | People claim to find modern transcendence in sport, at raves, or on Amazonian hallucinogens. But is it the real thing? | 9/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTranscendence and the ancients | If there's one subject you could write 800 pages on it would be Transcendence. But is it philosophy? | 9/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThree things you should know about time | Confused about time? Let’s give presentism, eternalism, and the growing block a brisk work out. | 8/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRemembering wars, lest we forget | The rituals of remembrance can be powerful and moving, but what moral lesson lies beneath? | 8/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOn being vulnerable | It’s a promise as old as Buddha: make the right choices and you can put an end to your suffering. But is it the wrong end of the stick? | 8/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCauses, effects, and hidden powers | If there’s anything you can bank on it’s cause and effect; Stephen Mumford on an indispensable first principle. | 8/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWine: a matter of taste? | What a good quaffing can reveal about being objective about the subjective; raise a glass to the philosophy of wine. | 7/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFree speech, campus protests, and the right to silence | University students calling for deplatforming are making a curious claim about free speech. But what is it exactly? | 7/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRemembering Zygmunt Bauman and Hubert Dreyfus | Bauman and Dreyfus: remembering two greats who engaged deeply with powerful forces of our time. | 7/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEnid Blyton—the moral of the story | She might not be in vogue these days, but for one Cambridge philosopher Enid Blyton is serious moral business. | 7/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn answer for Carlo Rovelli and his quantum problem | Carlo Rovelli is a physicist in need of a philosopher, and we’ve found one who's happy to help. | 7/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe military, moral injury, and Nancy Sherman | This year’s Alan Saunders Memorial Lecturer—Nancy Sherman—has something to say about the military. | 6/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOn prison sentencing: what matters? | A philosopher receives a 12-year jail sentence for having sex with someone who can’t speak. Then things get interesting. Peter Singer and Marcia Baron on suffering as a guide to sentencing. | 6/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCarlo Rovelli and his quantum problem | Carlo Rovelli on the desperate need for some conceptual engineering to dig quantum thinking out of a deep black hole. | 6/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWilliam Godwin: rebel for love, happiness, and anarchy | The Utilitarians have given us a big idea to live by, transforming life in ways we take for granted today. One of their number challenges us to take it further. | 6/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMottainai: a philosophy of waste | Mottainai combines elements of Buddhism and Shinto to create a nuanced approach to the environment and wasteful practices. | 5/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAwesome ethics and the art of mushroom blading | Forget the meaning of life; an ethical definition of awesome is far more important. | 5/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStones rolling and the joy of ordinary objects | The structure of the universe is written in stone—maybe. Dana Goswick talks metaphysics. | 5/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA deathly conversation: Part 3 | When I die will I be dead? Sam Baron with a final look at the ultimate mystery | 5/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanConfucius says … | Roger Ames on what Confucius might say to the modern world. | 4/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe other L word | The topic that’s sure to crash a conversation; the existentialists had a crack at it, but it might not be the best approach. | 4/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLove has its reasons | Be careful with your intuitions about love; they might be all wrong. | 4/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA deathly conversation: part two | Philosopher of time Sam Baron is determined to lift the veil on the unknown. In the second of his conversations he turns to writer Brooke Davis, for whom life and death loom large. | 4/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA deathly conversation | Death: we don't like to talk about it much yet it' core to the human experience. Time specialist Sam Baron has decided to tackle the beast in three probing sessions. First up, two bedrock views: the epicurean and the existentialist. | 4/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA common humanity: but how? | The concept of a common humanity sounds like a good idea, but making it happen is complicated amidst 21st-century-style disruption. | 3/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA positive charge: electrons, love, and divine fine-tuning | How unconventional couplings at the sub-atomic level challenge the theory of an intelligent cosmic designer. | 3/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonating your organs | Organ transplantation is a giant leap forward. But the conversation lags miles behind. Julian Savulescu and Martin Wilkinson on the crucial things we need to consider. | 3/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Golden Age of female philosophy | Philosophy can be both pedantic and combative. But is this the reason women drop out in droves? Mary Midgely recalls a brief golden period when women ruled. | 3/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFuelling free will | Alfred Mele has spent four years and four million dollars to try to get to the bottom of free will. He learnt that it was like petrol. | 2/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFor all my Valentines | Two plus: Carrie Jenkins untangles the moral from the metaphysical in romantic love. | 2/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOn Parfit | Derek Parfit was known to brush his teeth whilst reading Kant. He wanted to solve big conundrums, and discover what ultimately matters in a morally diverse universe? Garrett Cullity recalls his brilliant doctoral supervisor. | 2/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobotics, AI and the power of slow | Take it slowly—a simple prescription that could lay the groundwork for the next stage in machine learning, if not philosophy itself. Angie Abdilla applies new thinking to old ways. | 2/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCompassion: caught or taught? | We all want our kids to grow into moral citizens, but getting there is complex. One way is to impart the notion of compassion, which seems like a good idea, but the path is not so certain. Laura D'Olimpio weighs it up. | 1/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat were they thinking? | Can we really know what other minds are up to—including your dog, cat or canary? With Charles Foster and Raymond Younis. | 1/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI’m just not myself | Buddhist thought holds that at core there is no real self—two philosophers at the junction of east and west, self and mind. | 1/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGender bending | Gender—time to revisit the basics. | 1/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNoam Chomsky on the hard stuff | What are words worth? Well they are worth thinking about, and that’s what Noam Chomsky has spent a lifetime doing. | 12/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRescuing the beautiful | Would you do something simply because it is the beautiful thing to do? | 12/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky action is closer than you think | Einstein didn't think much of it, but Jairus Grove thinks that spooky action at a distance might tell us more than we'd care to ask. | 12/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCome, come, Mr Bond | You could say that life is a gamble—but beneath the stats are some far-reaching questions about cause and effect. Darrell Rowbottom knows that in life—as in the casino—the stakes can be high. | 12/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe posthuman | In the 1960s Michel Foucault famously declared the end of man as we know him. So, how's the project going? Rosi Braidotti on how we got here, and what’s still to come. | 12/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPride and prudence | Smashed avocados are now at $22—so what of prudence, virtue, and frugality? Emrys Westacott has a veggie patch and has taught philosophy students how to be 'tight-wads'. | 11/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSeeing reason | Aristotle firmly held that reason sets humans apart from other animals—Julian Baggini explains the reasonable limits of reason. | 11/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSnookered: women and philosophy | Why so few women in philosophy? David Papineau talks with Eleanor Gordon Smith about his contentious article on the matter. | 11/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRace and gender in an age of transition | The trans moment: gender and race in an age of unsettled categories. | 11/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMemories, morals, and me | An essential part of personal identity may be our moral self. | 10/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe social contract in an age of terror: who can you trust? | Media, trust, and the politics of fear. | 10/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHappiness—it’s not personal | What does critical theory have to do with happiness? | 10/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSleep, sex, and fairy tales | For an activity that takes up 30% of our lives it’s a mystery that we don’t pay more attention to it. | 10/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDeath duties | It’s said that philosophy is a preparation for death—so try this simple question. | 10/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGender bending | Gender—time to revisit the basics. | 9/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Reason to Enlightenment | Some pivotal moments in philosophy—in plain language. | 9/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLogic: if + then = why? | Hold on to your modus ponens; we’re getting serious about precision. | 9/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe truth, beauty, and power of punk | 40 years of punk, but what's it got to do with philosophy? | 9/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat were they thinking? | Can we really know what other minds are up to—including your dog, cat or canary? | 8/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTalk about a revolution! | The rise of science was more mess than method; the untold story of a glorious revolution. | 8/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMartha Nussbaum on the limits of anger | Is anger a sign of moral seriousness or a dangerous slippery slope? | 8/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMartha Nussbaum on politics and emotions | Strong emotions can divide us, so best to banish them from the public square. Not so fast, says Martha Nussbaum. | 8/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Chalmers on Pokémon Go and the future of reality | How would you like your reality? David Chalmers has some suggestions. | 7/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI’m just not myself | Buddhist thought holds that at core there is no real self—two philosophers at the junction of east and west, self and mind. | 7/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHilary Putnam | We mark the passing of Hilary Putnam—and explore some of his key insights. | 7/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to love a less free will | Free will is on the run—so why not relax and enjoy a healthy dose of compatibilism. | 7/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCicero on growing old | Marcus Tullius Cicero on an undeniable fact of life—and how it fares in our modern utilitarian world? | 7/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan you trust your memory | What’s so wrong with the storehouse model of memory? | 6/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour right to be a foodie | Why do so many people find foodie-ism morally questionable? | 6/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHabit | So, you have good habits and bad habits. But what what are your habits of gender and race? | 6/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe pleasure-pain paradox | Pain is a puzzle; and so is pleasure. It’s even more confounding when one leads to the other. | 6/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCharles Taylor | Since its publication in 2007 Charles Taylor’s magnum opus A Secular Age has gathered great intellectual momentum. His analysis has never been more apt. | 5/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA public act | Doing it in public might seem like a good thing, but is the truth about philosophy hard to bear? | 5/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Liberalism and the end of the world as we know it | Political liberalism is a great achievement. But has it come at a heavy cost? | 5/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Democracy—not? | You may not have thought of democracy as essentially undemocratic, but this week’s guest is no fan of the least-worst system. | 5/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: A right to be angry | Political philosophy can turn coldly technical and miss the very basis of the original question: how can we best live together? | 5/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Universal norms | The human rights debate echoes an ancient quarrel that's been running since the time of Plato and Aristotle: how the world is, and how it ought to be. | 4/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Rights without borders | Few contemporary debates have proven more divisive than the treatment of asylum seekers—and the participants often speak different languages. But we're not the first to wrestle with this tension. | 4/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Global justice | Global justice necessarily relies on an expanded view of community—but how far can the social contract stretch? | 4/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical philosophy in the world: Human rights | Many would say that we have lived to see the twilight of political philosophy. The Philosopher’s Zone explores the widening gap between the world as it is and the world as some would like it. | 4/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMoral diversity | Why do we have disagreements? Not the garden variety types, but the heavier duty ones around moral questions—the stuff which divides families, neighbours, and even entire communities. | 3/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNoam Chomsky on the hard stuff | What are words worth? Well they are worth thinking about, and that’s what Noam Chomsky has spent a lifetime doing. | 3/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAwe and wonder | If gazing at the heavens stirs deep feelings within you, imagine what it’s like for astronauts. | 3/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpecial relationships | What’s so special about your friends? | 3/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky action is closer than you think | Einstein didn't think much of it, but spooky action at a distance might tell us more than we'd care to ask | 2/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRescuing the beautiful | Would you do something simply because it is the beautiful thing to do? | 2/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Enlightenment | How could such a formative epoch in human civilisation fall so low in intellectual standing? Time to rethink the Enlightenment. | 2/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Anatomy of Melancholy | What can a 400-year-old text can tell us about modern day depression and anxiety? | 2/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTalk to the hand | It seems that we owe a lot to the hand, and its grip—literal and metaphoric—on the world. | 1/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWho’s afraid of inequality? | Inequality might just be the defining challenge of our time. But is it a moral challenge as well? | 1/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is it to dream? | Dreams and dreaming really stirred up Rene Descartes. And so they should, because dreams bring up a bunch of conceptual matters that largely remain unresolved. | 1/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMottainai: a philosophy of waste | Mottainai combines elements of Buddhism and Shinto to create a nuanced approach to the environment and wasteful practices. | 1/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCrossing the threshold | When choosing to become a vampire isn't that far off from choosing to become a parent. | 1/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBattle of the time lords | It was the day a philosopher and a physicist slugged it out—in the red corner was Albert Einstein, in the blue was Henri Bergson—and their bone of contention was the true nature of time. | 12/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoing good better | 'Tis the season of love, goodwill, and honed calculations—the rise of the new altruist. | 12/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRace | We know from experience that talk of race can quickly lead to racism, yet we cling to it as something useful. So how should race be understood? | 12/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe existential MBA | Graduate business schools are not in the habit of teaching existentialism for fun and profit. But it’s possible that today’s captains of commerce are missing a big opportunity to better understand tomorrow’s economic environment. | 12/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe unconscious | Is it time for a better explanation of Freud’s concept of the unconscious? | 11/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOntology and all that | Ontology and metaphysics—what things are in the world and what might unify them—can set many philosophical traps. Simple questions can lead to strange places. | 11/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShame, desire, and Rene Girard | The sting of shame still hurts. Explaining its enduring hold takes some conceptual rigour. | 11/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is a disease? | It’s been said that philosophy can’t cure disease; but it might be able to tell you what one actually is. | 11/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSooo cute | What is it to be cute? Not quite the sublime or the beautiful, but this peculiar category might reveal more than we’d care to admit. | 10/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe young and the reasonable | Socrates copped a bad rap over corrupting the youth. What would his Athenian accusers make of the burgeoning philosophy for children movement? | 10/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeaning in life | So, what exactly are we asking when we talk of life’s meaning? | 10/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA new way to blame | Is it possible to hold someone responsible for a perceived wrong but not to blame them? | 10/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPhilosophy in a divided world | How to turn a cycle of violence into a culture of debate. | 10/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEvolution—a rather large leap | You could say that evolution was a pretty big leap. But can Darwin’s insight stretch as far as we’d like it to? | 9/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanQuantum worlds | What does American pragmatism tell us about the universe? | 9/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWho’s afraid of inequality? | Inequality might just be the defining challenge of our time. But is it a moral challenge as well? | 9/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWellbeing | What exactly is wellbeing? And what if someone else dictates what yours ought to be? | 9/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAkeel Bilgrami on Islam and identity | Akeel Bilgrami on Islam and identity in the Western world. | 8/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMottainai: a philosophy of waste | Mottainai combines elements of Buddhism and Shinto to create a nuanced approach to the environment and wasteful practices. | 8/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMind upload | Can you really upload your mind? Better get your theoretical assumptions right before you push that button. | 8/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is it to dream? | Dreams and dreaming really stirred up Rene Descartes. And so they should, because dreams bring up a bunch of conceptual matters that largely remain unresolved. | 8/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife as a matter of death | Socrates famously declared the philosopher’s life to be a preparation for death. Somehow, through the centuries, this urgent message has been lost. | 8/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOn consent: no means no, but does yes mean yes? | Everybody agrees that non-consensual sex is seriously wrong. But what exactly is it to be non-consensual? | 7/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRomantic love in the 21st century needs some attention | Romantic love in the 21st century needs some attention—and we’ll give it some. | 7/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Gray on the burden of freedom | Freedom—leave it to marionette puppets or God—John Gray on our hellish groundhog day. | 6/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Plato for modern times | So, if Plato could come back, what would he make of it all? | 10/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPhilosophy and film | Cinema and philosophy have not always been good friends. Here’s why they should be. | 7/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDo the right thing | Doing the right thing: will it be your own judgement or the big stick? | 6/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoger Scruton | What remains of mystery in the era of science? Roger Scruton on his struggle to set limits on a runaway world. | 5/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFreedom, old and new | Freedom isn't what it used to be. So, what can ancient Rome teach us? | 5/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe new iconomy | Our eyes are being called to account in a new marketplace. Welcome to the shock of the iconomy. | 5/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe trouble with sex | Sexuality is hardly a foreign concept; from Plato to Foucault questions have been posed. Though, getting a firm grip is another matter. | 4/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLove Potions | There is nothing new about a philosopher thinking about love. But it takes a slightly different hue in the era of neuroscience. | 1/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEveryone's Faust | Goethe was a big thinker who distrusted big ideas. One work in particular spells it out. | 1/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBut is it art? | Ok, so what is art, and what do comic books have to do with it? | 11/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDr Who | What a 900-year-old trans-temporal traveller can tell us about some timeless questions. | 11/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs that really you? | Plotinus advised that we should never stop sculpting our own statue; no truer word in the era of social media. | 11/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJust do it? | Should you switch off your mind to achieve your best? | 11/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWe need to talk about Hegel | A funny thing happened on the way to the federal election: someone mentioned Hegel. | 10/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlone and apart | It has posed a problem for psychiatry, human rights, and the law. Now, solitary confinement is a dilemma for philosophy. | 10/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe new great time war | Einstein insisted that time is something that clocks measure. Case closed? Not quite. Welcome to the new season of The Philosopher's Zone | 10/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSimon Blackburn | After science, where to for human nature? Simon Blackburn has some ideas. | 7/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAgnes Heller | Agnes Heller has had her share of 20th century travails. From the Holocaust to Stalinism she has sailed close to modernity’s darkest moments. | 6/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFriedrich Kittler | Some understand him as a Teutonic version of Marshall McLuhan. They both peered into the black box of modern, mediated life but Friedrich Kittler’s understandings of the machine were altogether different. | 6/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Heidegger Way | Why let the Cartesian mind-body split stand in the way of a successful business pitch? For better results, use Heidegger. | 5/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA rear view of Alfred Hitchcock | A rear view of Alfred Hitchcock is a view that takes in what lies behind and beneath. And what we find is a profoundly pessimistic, though not hopeless, view of the world and a keen interest in the way we see it. | 8/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe evil of the Daleks | They are among the most loved, or most feared, villains in science fiction. But what is it that makes Daleks such great baddies? What constitutes evil and why do the Daleks represent a very specific idea about rationality and morality? This week, we tal | 7/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Athens to Baghdad: Greek meets Arabic philosophy | This week, we follow the journey of the classics as they spread from Greece to the Arab world and beyond. At a time when Europe still hadn't got its act together philosophically speaking, Arabs were busily translating and debating the ideas of Aristotle | 7/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTribute to the philosophical Alan Saunders | To mark the sad passing of Alan Saunders we bring you tributes from key thinkers and highlights from Alan’s rich Philosopher's Zone archive. | 6/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShakespeare, Identity and Religion | What was Shakespeare’s religion and what did he think about personal identity? Did he believe that the personal identity we have is had because we are this living body rather than that? How does commitment to religious faith or to marriage affect | 5/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReflections on cultural identity | Ethnic groups across the planet are beginning to act like corporations that own a 'natural' copyright in their 'culture' and 'cultural products' which they protect, often by recourse to the law, and on which they capitalise in much the same way as do i | 5/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Problem of Evil | The Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik argues that he killed to do good for his country. Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, displayed neither guilt nor hatred, claiming he bore no responsibility because he was simpl | 4/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKafka and Philosophy | Franz Kafka—author of The Trial, in which a man is unjustly accused and tried, and Metamorphosis, in which a man becomes a giant insect—is perhaps the modernist author most often discussed by philosophers. What has been so alluring about Kafka that | 3/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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