The Social Contract Research Podcast
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Episodes: 46
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Featuring seminars and interviews about the contemporary social contract: what it is, how and why it breaks down, and how it can be strengthened.
Some episodes discuss academic and philosophical approaches to social contract theory; others discuss practical, social and political issues related to the social contract.
This podcast is made possible by funding from the Australian Resesarch Council Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism".
Project webpage: bit.ly/MonSCRN
YouTube: bit.ly/YouTubeSCRN
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Rethinking the Social Contract: A Ricœurian Perspective, with Dr Laure Gillot-Assayag
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Slaves to the Algorithms? Algocracy and republican liberty, with Robert Sparrow
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Inclusive Economics: How Could AI Technologies Shape a New Inclusive Economy?, with Simon Angus
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Emerging Questions in AI Welfare, with Geoff Keeling
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Simone de Beauvoir and the “Adventurer”—Navigating the Return to the Common Good, with Mary Townsend
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Thinking About the Age of Choice, with Sophia Rosenfeld
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Diverse relations to alterity: from relational physics to the transindividual, with Timothy Jackson
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Children’s Periodicals and the Common Good: The Charitable Child, with Kristine Moruzi
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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The Oceans as a Commons: everyone’s, no-one’s, or a public good? with Douglas Guilfoyle
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May 07, 2025 |
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Standing up to Beijing, with David McCourt
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May 03, 2025 |
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Cultures of Trust, with Thomas Simpson
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan, with Amy Chandran
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Of Contract and Covenant: Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and Augustine on Social Agreement and Power, with Boleslaw Z. Kabala
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Michel Serres, Porous Becomings, and the Social Contract Tradition, with Daniel M. Knight, Andreas Bandak and Chris Watkin
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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From Natural Politics to Social Contract in the History of Ideas, with Simon Kennedy
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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States of nature as theories of normativity: Kant and his predecessors, with Macarena Marey
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Civilization and its Others: American Imaginaries, State of Nature, and Civility in Hobbes, with Stéphanie Martens
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Significance of the Individual and the Concept of the Social in the work of Carl, with Timothy Howles
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Modern Capitalism as Colonialism: Rethinking CB Macpherson's Theory of Possessive Individualism, with John Holmwood
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Spinoza and the Social Contract, with Sandra Leonie Field
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Slavery and the Social Contract, with John Protevi
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Rhetoric of Science and the Science of Rhetoric in Hobbes's State of Nature, with Ioannis Evrigenis
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May 30, 2023 |
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The State of Nature and Colonialism: Empty vs Waste Land at Home and Abroad, with Barbara Arneil
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Hobbes's Distinctive State of Nature, with Philip Pettit
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Rousseau's States of Nature, with Christopher Kelly
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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From Natural Equality to Frankpledge: The State of Nature, Ancient Constitutionalism, and the Rupture of the Social Contract in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Writings, with Sarah Winter
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The state of nature: the meanings and promise of a legal fiction, with Mark Somos
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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"Hiding God in the State of Nature", with Alan Levinovitz
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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"How to do Things With a Social Contract", with Peter Gratton
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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"Freedom and the inevitability of the market: on consumers’ sovereignty", with Jessica Whyte
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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"States of Intoxication and the Limbic Capitalocene", with Gerald Moore
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Green design and the natural contract, with Andrew Lacenere
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Australia's Social Contract, with Wayne Swan
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Scott Morrison's Social Contract
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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"Surveillance Capitalism Meets the Pandemic: Challenges to the Social Contract", with David Lyon
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Crime fiction and the social contract symposium
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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"Badiou, Rousseau and the Social Contract", with Justin Clemens
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Rousseau's pure state of nature: A deep dive into the state of nature #2
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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"Restoring Catharine Macaulay's Enlightenment Republicanism?", with Karen Green.
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Is getting vaccinated really part of the social contract?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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The state of nature as social critique: A deep dive into the state of nature #1
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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The state of nature: an idea that shapes us
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Rousseau's Divided Legacy, with Peter Hallward
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Feminist Perspectives on Social Contract Theory, with Janice Richardson
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May 28, 2021 |
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The New Social Contract, with Tim Wilson MP
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May 21, 2021 |
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Michel Foucault and the Social Contract, with Stuart Elden and Mark Kelly
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Apr 15, 2021 |