Masters of the Universe | Natalie Kofler, Steve Fuller, Angela Saini
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesEver since the discovery of DNA, we have fanstasised about creating new species of animals, or even 'improved' humans...
1 Loka 201936min
The Right To Offend | David Aaronovitch, Joanna Williams, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesShould we seek to eradicate offence? Last year Ireland voted to get rid of its blasphemy laws, and most applauded the...
24 Syys 201937min
The Prejudice of Facts | Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna, John Ellis
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIn a world obsessed with Trump, alternative facts have not had a great press. But it is a century and more since Niet...
17 Syys 201937min
The Reality Illusion | Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian, Hilary Lawson
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSeeing is believing, yet cognitive scientists seem to have uncovered these views as incorrect. Evolution led us to pe...
10 Syys 201946min
Evolution After Darwin | Massimo Pigliucci, Zanna Clay, Tim Lewens
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe brutal mechanism of natural selection gave rise to all life on our planet. Or so the Darwinian story goes. But fr...
3 Syys 201941min
Bonus Episode: In Conversation with Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIn this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson discuss why language has come to domi...
29 Elo 201923min
The Necessity of Morality | Justin Smith, Jason Alexander McKenzie, Barry C. Smith
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMany philosophers have concluded that morality is a subjective human invention. Should we then simply encourage and a...
27 Elo 201943min
What's It All For? | Helen Lederer, Julian Baggini, Susan Neiman, Janne Teller
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe admire achievers, from James Watt to Mandela, Marie Curie to Emmeline Pankhurst. Yet many spend their lives waitin...
20 Elo 201935min
