Philosopher's Zone
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Subscribers: 1025
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 241
joel
May 24, 2020
A nice little podcast that makes me think. Sometimes I don't have the time to listen to a podcast that is about an hour long, so this podcast serves me well in those moments.
nick o
Mar 17, 2019
garbage. used to be much better 5 years ago. bad guests. boring. old stale and failed ideas eg critical theory
Description
The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.
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Environmental techno-utopias: building nature better
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Slopaganda
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Indigenous literature and the academy in Australia
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Albert Camus, fascism and America
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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What beauty apps are doing to us
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Are babies conscious?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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How AI could transform reading
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Is it time to get rid of legal gender status?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Who's responsible for extreme beliefs?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Is a blobfish beautiful or ugly? Science, aesthetics and the natural world
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Who's responsible for solving the world's problems—me, or The System?
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Disability, discrimination and disgust: why gut issues are a philosophical problem
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Nature, gender and discomfort with 'woke' language
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Is it time to bring back natural philosophy?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Judgement and remorse: a conversation with Raimond Gaita
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Freud, Wittgenstein and the unconscious
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Buddhism and nationalism
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Philosophy's problem with its history
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Authority and medical diagnosis
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Nationalism and immigration
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Speech acts and AI
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May 29, 2025 |
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Belief, emotion and trust
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May 22, 2025 |
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In defence of workism
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May 14, 2025 |
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How feminism changed primatology
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May 07, 2025 |
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History and the left
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May 01, 2025 |
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Henri Bergson, philosopher of past and future
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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LIVE EVENT: What use is philosophy?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Queer theory and animal rights
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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AI, reliability and trust
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Innocence and "child rescue" in the colonial imagination
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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What is a conspiracy theory?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Getting past post-truth
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Expanding our moral circle
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Knowing what things are like
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How important is aesthetic education?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Auschwitz: experiencing what can't be experienced
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Summer season: History and narrative
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Summer season: Libertarianism and freedom
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Summer season: What is swearing?
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Summer season: How philosophy fell in love with language
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Summer season: Music, taste and AI
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Hannah Arendt and the aesthetic
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Sense, sensibility and the authentic self
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Philosophy and mysticism
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Health care ethics: otherness and belonging
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Sentience
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Nationalism and immigration
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Philosophy, history and religion
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The 2024 Alan Saunders Lecture: Krushil Watene
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Is there purpose in the cosmos?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Feminism and freedom
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Indigenous literature in Australia
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Deep ecology
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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AI and reading
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The philosophy of history in China
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Extremism, gender and science
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Orwellian equality: What can this philosophical outsider teach us about how to live
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Can philosophy save us from the tyranny of toxic positivity?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Why liberalism needs fewer defenders, and more devotees
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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What is AI doing to our humanity?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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De-extinction, pt 2
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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De-extinction, pt 1
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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What's your story? Life narrative and "main character" thinking
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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History and narrative
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The ancient key to modern happiness
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Fighting fatphobia with Kate Manne
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The philosophy of emotions
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Why time doesn't pass
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May 30, 2024 |
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Philosophy for tough times
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May 24, 2024 |
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Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
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May 16, 2024 |
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Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
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May 08, 2024 |
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Obedience
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May 01, 2024 |
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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The predicament of existence
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Intellectual humility
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Freedom or liberty?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Philosophy, angst and hope
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Music, taste and AI
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The philosophy of twins
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Philosophy, disability and the gut
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Pornography and free speech
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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What are Australian philosophers thinking?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Queer vs the state
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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What is swearing?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Friendship
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Transgender identity and experience
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Gender, gaming and pop culture
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Richard Rorty and America
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Women philosophers in antiquity
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Time in the time of COVID
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Libertarianism
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The Cynics
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The philosophy of biology
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Banality, deception and evil
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Defining Aboriginality
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Race, biology and medicine
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Is there purpose in the cosmos?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Poverty and punishment
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Free will, consciousness and AI: a conversation with Daniel Dennett
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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René Girard and victimhood
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Beauty and AI
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The pathology of ugliness
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Police abolition
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Friendship
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Gaslighting
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why time doesn't pass
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Exploring Tourette's
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Philosophy and myth
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Transgender identity and experience
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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How philosophy fell in love with language
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Philosophy for tough times
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Taking politics seriously
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Gender, gaming and pop culture
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Exploring the multiverse
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Leadership
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May 25, 2023 |
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Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
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May 21, 2023 |
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Philosophy behind bars
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May 14, 2023 |
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Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
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May 03, 2023 |
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Richard Rorty and America
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The anti-philosophers
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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De-extinction, pt 2
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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De-extinction, pt 1
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Art and hate speech
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Women and the canon
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Data privacy and informed consent
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Women philosophers in antiquity
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Moral creativity
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Tradition, modernity and crisis in Ukraine
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The lessons of failure
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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A Buddhist perspective on the ethics of violence
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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On being a minority in philosophy
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Skilled performance and cognition
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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China, Confucius and the courtyard
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Values and goals
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Pop, philosophy and politics
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Efficiency, productivity and excess
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Philosophy and children
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Owning the public square
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Philosophy behind bars
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Causation and death
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The prophetic vision of Günther Anders
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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How should we treat insects?
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Philosophy and travel
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Refugees and moral obligation
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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How Nietzsche extracts cheerfulness from suffering
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Trust and scepticism in a post-truth world
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Satanism
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Housing part 3 - land rights
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Housing part 2 - rent
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Housing pt 1 - care ethics
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Values and goals
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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What's new in death - part 2
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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What's new in death - part 1
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Doctors and dualism
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Art and hate speech
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Simone de Beauvoir: becoming a woman
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Ubuntu
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Philosophy in a nutshell: The aphorism
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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The great and the good-enough
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Pop, philosophy and politics
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Edmund Burke, revolution and reform
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Hegel, nature and the Anthropocene
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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The phenomenology of love
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
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May 29, 2022 |
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Adoption and moral obligation
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May 22, 2022 |
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Identity politics
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May 15, 2022 |
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Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal?
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May 08, 2022 |
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Rupture and hope
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May 01, 2022 |
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Sex, death and chilli sauce
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Philosophy and myth
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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The predicament of existence
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Moral beauty and art
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Philosophers in love
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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The ethics of uterus transplantation
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Extremism
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Trans-national adoption and "blending in"
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Efficiency, productivity, excess
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Consciousness and contemplation
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Art and climate
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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China, Confucius and the courtyard
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Stuff
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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What we talk about when we talk about race
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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The death of analytic philosophy?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Restlessness
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Structural injustice and individual responsibility
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Derrida and difficulty
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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The many worlds of David Lewis
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Mathematics and the good life
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Bad thinking and good people
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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The individual and the collective
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Philosophy and psychedelic experience
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Buddhist logic
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Care ethics
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Philosophy and children
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Gender and gaming
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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What is dignity?
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Yan Fu: China meets Western liberalism
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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The trouble with our moral evolution
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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RN Presents: This Much Is True
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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About time, part 4: The insect clock
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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About time, part 3: Time and perception
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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About time, part 2: Time in fiction
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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About time, part 1: Newton's exploding clock
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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The abominable heretic
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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How should we treat insects?
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Was the market economy inevitable?
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Structural injustice and individual responsibility
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Women, the alt-right and the liberal centre
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Nietzsche and transfiguration
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Trust, risk and experts
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Mathematical objects
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Misogyny
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Analytic philosophy: the leading brand
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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The death of analytic philosophy?
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Marxism pt 2: Black Marxism
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Marxism pt 1: Marx the philosopher
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Ethics, philosophy and immigration
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May 30, 2021 |
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Women and the Dhamma
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May 23, 2021 |
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What can David Hume teach us?
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May 16, 2021 |
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Chronomobilities
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May 09, 2021 |
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Logic in Indian philosophy
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May 02, 2021 |
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Ecocultural identity
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Philosophy and ecology
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Restlessness
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Neurophenomenology and embodied sensemaking
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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The problem with "moral machines"
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Mar 28, 2021 |