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Philosopher's Zone

ABC

The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.

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241 episodes

  1. 05 | Unsteady State | Politics for the future and the past 41:56
  2. 04 | Unsteady State | Confucianism and crisis 43:57
  3. 03 | Unsteady State | What the Right gets wrong about Nietzsche 39:11
  4. 02 | Unsteady State | Who owns Antarctica? 34:49
  5. 01 | Unsteady State | Politics and the good life 1:10:05
  6. Technology and the lure of ancient Athens 45:10
  7. Sympathy, himpathy and feminism 38:02
  8. Signal, noise and interpersonal conflict 30:54
  9. Feminism, generosity and cross-cultural support 38:26
  10. Getting angry at the system 36:33
  11. Who's afraid of Cultural Marxism? 45:54
  12. Habermas and the retreat of reason 42:05
  13. Visual art as philosophy 32:49
  14. How smart are machines, anyway? 32:01
  15. Hegel: The philosopher with the (one) big idea 36:19
  16. Eco-grief and environmental loss 28:58
  17. Colonising space 32:37
  18. Can pregnancy be a job? the ethics of commercial surrogacy 32:57
  19. Belief, emotion and trust 35:30
  20. Communication in an age of crisis 34:02
  21. Can sport survive AI? 37:35
  22. Purity, filth and 'promiscuous defecators': why we're weird about poo 36:00
  23. Bad faith and 'just asking questions' 28:58
  24. 'Natural' disasters and climate justice 31:45
  25. Where am I? Buddhist philosophy and the self 39:05
  26. Common sense vs reason: when philosophy gets weird 35:24
  27. Adam Smith, economics and moral philosophy 32:15
  28. Can AIs be friends? 36:19
  29. Kant and religion 35:13
  30. Speech acts and AI 34:41
  31. 'Being a burden' and assisted dying 29:00
  32. Sincerity, irony and metamodernism 38:07
  33. Is it time to get rid of legal gender status? 35:19
  34. Medieval Jewish philosophy and the lessons of history 30:46
  35. The reluctant feminist: Clara Zetkin and International Women's Day 37:43
  36. Move fast, break everything: Nick Land and accelerationism 33:57
  37. Can 'planetary civics' save us from techno-catastrophe? 43:26
  38. Racism and racial regimes 48:12
  39. Do we still love art? 35:57
  40. Who am I? Individual and collective identity 40:29
  41. What's the point of education? 28:28
  42. Albert Camus, fascism and America 46:28
  43. How feminism changed primatology 34:47
  44. What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen' 29:57
  45. Buddhism and nationalism 32:42
  46. Innocence and 'child rescue' in the colonial imagination 37:08
  47. Distributed intelligence and the problem with 'doing your own research' 32:31
  48. Can atheists be virtuous? The moral philosophy of Catharine Trotter Cockburn 41:01
  49. What are we doing when we read? 28:58
  50. Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer 42:15