Lost in Language | Saul Kripke, Hilary Lawson, Paul Boghossian, Silvia Jonas
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesLanguage is widely seen as the critical tool which has set our species apart. We assume that it is successful because...
6 Aug 201942min
The Problem with Love | Mark Salter, Helen-Ann Hartley, Phillip Blond
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes'Love conquers all' is a motto central to our culture and its Christian heritage. Yet Buddhists think love an obstacl...
30 Jul 201936min
Are You An Illusion? | Julian Baggini, Joanna Kavenna, Jan Westerhoff, Silvia Jonas
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe self is an illusion, our passions a by-product of the brain. Or so neuroscientists and philosophers would have us...
23 Jul 201943min
The End Of All Things | John Dupré, Subir Sarkar, Nancy Cartwright
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe tend to think of physical, material things as the ultimate stuff of the universe. Yet contemporary physics has lar...
16 Jul 201945min
The Fascination With Evil | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, Stephen de Wijze
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe may condemn tyrants and abhor serial killers, but we are obsessed with evil and violence. Are we fascinated by evi...
9 Jul 201935min
The Right Way to Think | Paul Boghossian, Mary Jane Rubenstein, Alister McGrath
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesReason was traditionally seen as the Enlightenment’s great legacy and the origin of our success. Yet reason is increa...
2 Jul 201938min
The Prejudice of Philosophy | Chakravarthi Ram Prasad, Nivi Manchanda, Timothy Williamson
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMany see the search for universal truths about the world as the noble aim of philosophy. Yet our universities largely...
25 Jun 201939min
The Illusion of Now | Julian Barbour, Tim Maudlin, Emily Thomas
Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesPast and future are worlds we can never inhabit. We live of necessity in the present. But physicists and philosophers...
18 Jun 201941min
