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Philosopher's Zone

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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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Episodis

241 episodis

  1. What is pleasure? 37:42
  2. 05 | Unsteady State | Politics for the future and the past 41:56
  3. 04 | Unsteady State | Confucianism and crisis 43:57
  4. 03 | Unsteady State | What the Right gets wrong about Nietzsche 39:11
  5. 02 | Unsteady State | Who owns Antarctica? 34:49
  6. 01 | Unsteady State | Politics and the good life 1:10:05
  7. Technology and the lure of ancient Athens 45:10
  8. Sympathy, himpathy and feminism 38:02
  9. Signal, noise and interpersonal conflict 30:54
  10. Feminism, generosity and cross-cultural support 38:26
  11. Getting angry at the system 36:33
  12. Who's afraid of Cultural Marxism? 45:54
  13. Habermas and the retreat of reason 42:05
  14. Visual art as philosophy 32:49
  15. How smart are machines, anyway? 32:01
  16. Hegel: The philosopher with the (one) big idea 36:19
  17. Eco-grief and environmental loss 28:58
  18. Colonising space 32:37
  19. Can pregnancy be a job? the ethics of commercial surrogacy 32:57
  20. Belief, emotion and trust 35:30
  21. Communication in an age of crisis 34:02
  22. Can sport survive AI? 37:35
  23. Purity, filth and 'promiscuous defecators': why we're weird about poo 36:00
  24. Bad faith and 'just asking questions' 28:58
  25. 'Natural' disasters and climate justice 31:45
  26. Where am I? Buddhist philosophy and the self 39:05
  27. Common sense vs reason: when philosophy gets weird 35:24
  28. Adam Smith, economics and moral philosophy 32:15
  29. Can AIs be friends? 36:19
  30. Kant and religion 35:13
  31. Speech acts and AI 34:41
  32. 'Being a burden' and assisted dying 29:00
  33. Sincerity, irony and metamodernism 38:07
  34. Is it time to get rid of legal gender status? 35:19
  35. Medieval Jewish philosophy and the lessons of history 30:46
  36. The reluctant feminist: Clara Zetkin and International Women's Day 37:43
  37. Move fast, break everything: Nick Land and accelerationism 33:57
  38. Can 'planetary civics' save us from techno-catastrophe? 43:26
  39. Racism and racial regimes 48:12
  40. Do we still love art? 35:57
  41. Who am I? Individual and collective identity 40:29
  42. What's the point of education? 28:28
  43. Albert Camus, fascism and America 46:28
  44. How feminism changed primatology 34:47
  45. What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen' 29:57
  46. Buddhism and nationalism 32:42
  47. Innocence and 'child rescue' in the colonial imagination 37:08
  48. Distributed intelligence and the problem with 'doing your own research' 32:31
  49. Can atheists be virtuous? The moral philosophy of Catharine Trotter Cockburn 41:01
  50. What are we doing when we read? 28:58