Philosophy For Our Times

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• Has the world gone to Hell? | Slavoj Žižek on fascism, shame, and dirty jokes 05.08.2025
• Video games and the meaning of life | James Tartaglia 29.07.2025
• The philosophy of literature SPECIAL | George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, and more 25.07.2025
• How other species challenge our idea of consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith 22.07.2025
• Utopia and human nature | Paul Bloom 15.07.2025
• More choice means less freedom | Psychologist Barry Schwartz 11.07.2025
• The limits of logic: Should we embrace the irrational? |Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn 08.07.2025
• Consciousness begins in the body | Antonio Damasio 02.07.2025
• The Selfish and The Selfless SPECIAL | JD Vance, Pope Francis, and the 10 Commandments 27.06.2025
• Being mindful in a mindless world | Ellen Langer 24.06.2025
• The beautiful in philosophy | Babette Babich, Paul Ernest, Ankhi Mukherjee, Sarah Wilson 20.06.2025
• A world without values | Janne Teller, Dale Turner, Robin van den Akker, Isabel Hilton 17.06.2025
• The challenge to optimism | Angus Deaton 10.06.2025
• Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier 03.06.2025
• Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich 29.05.2025
• The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia 20.05.2025
• Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes 16.05.2025
• The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely 13.05.2025
• Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsky 07.05.2025
• Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism 02.05.2025