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
The search for higher states of consciousness | Philosopher Jessica Frazier (13.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- Should we be transgressive? The limits and potential of transgressiveness | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen
- Perversity and the limits of rational | Psychologist Paul Bloom
- Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress
- Analytic or Continental philosophy | Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich
- How Words Warp Reality | Nick Enfield
- Consciousness and psychedelics: In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
- 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
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