Philosophy For Our Times

Mazes of the mind: The philosophy of neuroscience | Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore, Bryan Appleyard

In search of nothing | David Deutsch, Amanda Gefter, Lee Smolin

Halloween SPECIAL | The philosophy of the apocalypse

The importance of giving up | Adam Phillips

Slavoj Žižek on philosophy today | The madness of reality

How to fathom timelessness | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

After postmodernism | Hilary Lawson, Robin van den Akker, Abby Innes, Sophie Scott-Brown

The language of the unconscious: Pyschoanalysis and AI | Alenka Zupančič

The Enlightenment is racist (and why) | Kehinde Andrews

The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era

Psychedelics and the structure of reality | Julian Baggini, Eileen Hall, and James Rucker

The unconscious mind: Is the unconscious real?

A landscape of consciousness | Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Hilary Lawson

Will psychedelics revolutionize mental health treatment? | Matthew Johnson, Shayla Love, and Kevin Sabet

The illusion of separation | Jessica Frazier on the Monism of Hindu philosophy

The limits of nothingness | Peter van Inwagen

Is free will an illusion? The chemistry of freedom | Patrick Haggard, George Ellis, Jennifer Hornsby

Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes

Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia

The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more

How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith

Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom

More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz

The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn

Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio

The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments

Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer

The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson

A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton

The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton

Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier

Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich

The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia

Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes

The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely

Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky

Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism

The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple

Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach

The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François

The price of everything, value of nothing | Politics series | Daniel Susskind, Abby Innes, Will Hutton, Richard Kibble

The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner

Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg

The philosophy of geopolitics SPECIAL | Donald Trump, Homer's Odyssey, and Korean Web Novels

The philosophy of dehumanisation | David Livingstone Smith

Consciousness is quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff

Defending panpsychism | Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson

Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake

The consciousness test | Yoshua Bengio, Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, and Hilary Lawson

Longtermism SPECIAL: The next stage of effective altruism