Episodes
Join Slavoj Žižek for an exclusive interview as he turns his attention to the world of science, taking aim at current approaches to the study of quantum physics.
Published 09/17/24
Published 09/17/24
Join Slavoj Zizek as he explores the current state of the world, analyzing the effects of capitalism and corporations on our past, present, and future.
Published 09/13/24
Join Slavoj Zizek as he explores the current state of the world, using war and the pandemic as a lens to explore the social and political decay of nations.
Published 09/10/24
Philosopher Barry C. Smith defends the importance of the most ignored senses - smell, taste, touch - to the philosophical project.
Published 09/03/24
Physicists Eric Weinstein and Becky Parker, and philosopher Hilary Lawson debate whether metaphysics is still relevant in a science-dominated world.
Published 08/31/24
Physicists Eric Weinstein and Becky Parker, and philosopher Hilary Lawson debate whether metaphysics is still relevant in a science-dominated world.
Published 08/28/24
Philosopher Nolen Gertz on nihilism and the meaning of life.
Published 08/23/24
Philosopher Nolen Gertz on nihilism and the meaning of life.
Published 08/20/24
Writer and historian Rob Boddice unravels the complexities of the human condition and confronts the happiness crisis.
Published 08/14/24
Award-winning psychologist and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke shares his years of research on the questions that haunt us: why are we devoid of meaning in the current moment, and what can we do about it?
Published 08/06/24
Mike Figgis, Lyric Hammersmith, Robert Eaglestone, Joanna Kavenna debate the nature of evil.
Published 08/02/24
Mike Figgis, Lyric Hammersmith, Robert Eaglestone, Joanna Kavenna debate the nature of evil.
Published 07/30/24
Slavoj Žižek delves into the troubling nature of enjoyment and excess.
Published 07/25/24
Professor of Philosophy Sophie-Grace Chappell argues we should allow our epiphanies to guide our actions.
Published 07/19/24
Professor of Philosophy Sophie-Grace Chappell argues we should allow our epiphanies to guide our actions.
Published 07/16/24
Three of today's leading thinkers in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and continental philosophy debate radical metaphysics.
Published 07/09/24
Jimena Canales interview on scientists and their 'demons'.
Published 07/02/24
Join post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson, professor of logic Michael Potter and philosopher of language John Searle to learn more about the linguistic turn and its implications.
Published 06/25/24
Carol Gilligan, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, and Richard Wrangham debate the dangers of altruism.
Published 06/20/24
Physicist and philosopher Avshalom Elitzur dissects science's limited understanding of consciousness and proposes a more philosophical, almost mystical, interpretation of it.
Published 06/11/24
Cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman, psychologist Ellen Langer, and philosopher Hilary Lawson try to get to the bottom of how humans perceive, and if we can ever know truth or the world around us.
Published 06/04/24
American science writer Michael Shermer elucidates the reasons people tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories and what to do about it.
Published 05/21/24
Suchitra Sebastian is a renowned scientist and a condensed matter physicist. She is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge where she is a Professor of Physics. Philip Goff is a leading philosopher of Consciousness in his field and a defender of panpsychism, the controversial proposal that everything contains consciousness, as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. Hilary Lawson is a philosopher and long-standing critic of realism, best known for his...
Published 05/14/24
Join Myriam François as she hosts this panel of distinguished guests as they discuss the idea of universal moral principles. Taking part in this debate are Daniel Markovits is an American legal scholar and Professor of Law at the Yale Law School; Carol Gilligan, a celebrated feminist, ethicist and psychologist; and finally, Peter Singer, one of the world's foremost public philosophers and a prominent figure in contemporary ethics.
Published 05/07/24