Philosophy For Our Times
Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.
Latest Episode
Consciousness and psychedelics: In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake (28.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The philosophy of religion and love with Alain de Botton and Alex O'Connor
- 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
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