Philosophy For Our Times
Episodes
The Shame Game | Robin Ince, John Milbank, Helen Croydon
08 Aug 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe shaming exposes and social media scandals of today can see...
On Air with Annie Nightingale
04 Aug 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe first female to enter the Radio Hall of Fame, MBE recipien...
Dreamland | Oliver Burkeman, Helen Lederer, Erwin James
02 Aug 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFulfill your dreams and make the most of your life! So advocat...
A Goldilock's World | Chiara Marletto, Bernard Carr, Massimo Pigliucci
31 Jul 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesCopernicus and Darwin taught us to be skeptical of feeling we ...
Love Me Tinder| Christopher Hamilton, Steve Carter, Anders Sandberg
31 May 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAt 10 billion matches, Tinder has made more connections than t...
Blind Data | Steve Carter
09 May 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMathematics is rarely seen as a romantic discipline. But 30% o...
Space Hacks | Patricia Lewis
25 Apr 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesTerror attacks on satellites would cause mass destruction with...
After the Higgs Boson | John Ellis
18 Apr 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIn 2013 we found the Higgs boson. Then, in early 2016, we foun...
A Politics of Hope | Owen Jones
13 Apr 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWhere are the alternatives to injustice and uncertainty? Autho...
Gravity | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Erik Verlinde, Frank Wilczek
06 Apr 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe all think we know what gravity is. But where gravity comes ...
Beyond Experience | Tara Shears, Hilary Lawson, Alison Milbank
28 Mar 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe think we know what is real and what is not. Yet strangely w...
The Emperor's New Genes | Dennis Noble, Anne Bowcock, Rupert Sheldrake
21 Mar 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe $3bn Human Genome project to uncover the genetic cause of ...
The Limits of Freedom | Claire Fox, Julian Le Grand, Theodore Dalrymple
14 Mar 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFreedom is a goal we all endorse. Yes as neuroscience shows an...
The Illusion of Sense | Hilary Lawson, Rupert Read, Ophelia Deroy
07 Mar 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom bats to beetles, animals sense the world differently in o...
A Tribal World | Julie Bindel, Brendan O'Neill, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Glendinning
28 Feb 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe see community and society as good. Yet communities are also...
Madness and Wisdom | Richard Bentall, Patricia Casey, Robert-Rowland Smith
21 Feb 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMadness is understood as the opposite of reason. Yet as Van Go...
Love Story | Helen Croydon, Naomi Goulder and Anders Sandberg
14 Feb 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe want "I love you" to mean forever. But neuroscientists clai...
The Known, The Strange And The New | John Ellis, Robert Rowland-Smith, Janne Teller
07 Feb 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Aristotle to Einstein humans have tried to make sense of ...
Dreaming The Future | Natalie Bennett, Phillip Blond, Roger Scruton
24 Jan 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe all want a better world, and we seemingly make progress, wi...
Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently | Angie Hobbs, Adrian Moore, Mark Vernon
17 Jan 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesPhilosophy as therapy is an ancient idea. Endorsed by Wittgens...
Sisters and Sisterhood | Myriam Francois, Margaret Heffernan, Kimberlé Crenshaw
10 Jan 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMore women MPs, more women CEOs, women it would seem are on th...
The Future of Human Enhancement | Anders Sandberg, Richard Morgan, Nicky Ashwell
03 Jan 2017
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesDesigner babies and human enhancement were once confined to fi...
Owning our Bodies | Anne Phillips, John Harris, Brooke Magnanti
20 Dec 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIf we have rights and ownership of anything it is surely of ou...
When Time Stands Still | Lee Smolin, Michael Duff, Eleanor Knox
13 Dec 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe structure our lives on the flow of time. Yet physicists sin...
The Good, Bad, & Controversial | Naomi Goulder, Brendan O'Neill, Sameer Rahim, Sam Roddick
06 Dec 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe all want to do the right thing. But from suicide bombers to...
Dancing With The Devil | Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Roache, Peter Dews
29 Nov 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe think we've grown out of the belief in evil. It's not in ou...
Is objective news an illusion? | John Lloyd, Hilary Lawson, Jonathan Calvert
22 Nov 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe want news to accurately reflect the real world. But in an a...
Missing Evidence | Tara Shears, Rupert Sheldrake, Massimo Pigliucci
17 Nov 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe think science is based on facts and evidence. But from grav...
How Men And Women Think | Gina Rippon, Simon Baron-Cohen, Helena Cronin
10 Nov 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMany neuroscientists believe disorders of the mind will be sol...
March Of The Machines | Roger Penrose, Nigel Shadbolt, Warren Ellis
03 Nov 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesEvil artificial intelligences are luckily confined to fiction....
Love Incorporated | Catherine Hakim, Mark Salter, Richard Coles
27 Oct 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAs Romeo and Juliet showed, love is a wild and unpredictable f...
The Dark Side of the Universe | Erik Verlinde, Michael Duff, Massimo Pigliucci
20 Oct 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNearly twenty years have passed since scientists first propose...
Eternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry Smith
13 Oct 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWhile the world turns we think ideas, right or wrong, are eter...
Everything We Know Is Wrong | Lawrence Krauss, Kenneth Cukier, Steve Fuller
06 Oct 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAt a time of uncertainty and doubt, we often suppose that scie...
The Crisis of the West | Gita Sahgal, Philip Collins, Kwasi Kwarteng
29 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWestern values have been extraordinarily successful. Yet now w...
Doing Right And Feeling Good | Anders Sandberg, Simon Baron-Cohen, Peter Dews
22 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe think empathising with others is the route to a better worl...
Playing Dice With The Universe | Chiara Marletto, Michael Duff, Peter Cameron
15 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes'God does not play dice with the universe' Einstein famously a...
The Dance Of Life | David Chalmers, Susana Martinez-Conde, Peter Hacker
13 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesOur life is made up of experiences. But what experience is rem...
Capitalism And Anarchy | Aaron Bastani, Stephen King, Deirdre McCloskey
08 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFew take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government...
Unnatural Laws | Nancy Cartwright, John Ellis, Rupert Sheldrake
07 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Newton's laws to E=mc2, we think we have uncovered the se...
The People's Champion | Owen Jones, Michael Howard, Phillip Blond
07 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe believe democracy leads to a fairer world. Yet almost all g...
Rethinking Capital | Paul Krugman, Stephen Dorrell, Alex Callinicos
06 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAs China and Russia adopt their own variants, the reign of cap...
Time, Space And Being | Michela Massimi, Julian Barbour, Huw Price
05 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe think space and time are the structure of the universe. Yet...
The Word And The World | Paul Boghossian, Joanna Kavenna, Ray Monk
04 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our great...
In Search Of The Self | Simon Blackburn, Mary Midgley, Colin Blakemore
03 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThere is no self, no 'I', only a flickering illusion. So claim...
Mind, Myth And Madness | Richard Bentall, Simon Baron-Cohen, Dinesh Bhugra
02 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric dia...
Matter And Mind | Markus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva Jablonka
01 Sep 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNeuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects t...
After the End of Truth | John Searle, Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson
31 Aug 2016
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Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesA generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to dis...