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Apr 29, 2026

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Episodes

Śrīharṣa: The Sweets of Refutation and Philosophical Inquiry #1562 09.08.2025

Dive into the debate over whether only the present exists, and how this view reshapes our understanding of time and reality. AI-generated content.

Presentism: Existence and the Flow of Time #1561 09.08.2025

Explore challenges to the idea that we can be truly morally responsible, from philosophical arguments to thought-provoking counterexamples. AI-generated content.

Skepticism About Moral Responsibility #1560 13.04.2025

⛓️ Are We Ever to Blame? If the chain of cause is unbroken, where is guilt to be found? What if no one is truly responsible—just tragically entangled? AI-generated content.

Experimental Philosophy: An Overview of Core Aims and Research #1559 13.04.2025

🧪 Philosophy in the Flesh What happens when thought leaves the armchair? Can experiments reveal the soul behind our intuitions? AI-generated content.

Sakya Pandita: Epistemology, Three Vows, and Scholarship #1558 13.04.2025

🌸 Knowing, Vowing, Being He studied the nature of knowledge—and vowed to transcend it. Can wisdom blossom where words fall away? AI-generated content.

Bradley's Regress: Properties, Relations, and Unity #1557 13.04.2025

♾️ The Puzzle That Swallowed Itself Every explanation needs another. What holds the world together—when every thread slips into the next? AI-generated content.

Epistemic Self-Doubt: Rationality and Higher-Order Evidence #1556 13.04.2025

🔄 When the Mind Doubts the Mind You think—but what if thinking betrays itself? Can reason survive when it turns inward and flinches? AI-generated content.

Anarchism: Skepticism of Authority and Power #1555 13.04.2025

⚡ Order Without Obedience When every crown is questioned, what rises from the ruins? Is freedom a beginning—or an eternal unrest? AI-generated content.

Understanding Neo-Kantian Philosophy and its Core Tenets #1554 13.04.2025

🧠 The Mind That Frames the World They sought not what is—but how we know what is. Can structure be more real than substance? AI-generated content.

Marin Mersenne: Faith, Science, and the Pursuit of Knowledge #1553 13.04.2025

🔍 The Monk Who Questioned Everything He prayed with one hand and calculated with the other. Can truth kneel at both altars—reason and belief? AI-generated content.

Climate Science: Core Concepts and Controversies #1552 13.04.2025

🔥 Forecasts of the Present We debate tomorrow while the air thickens today. Is knowledge enough when the ground beneath it burns? AI-generated content.

Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Induction #1551 13.04.2025

🔬 Truths That Time Abandoned If science once lied beautifully, why trust it now? What if progress is the dream that forgets its own shadow? AI-generated content.

The Ethics of Manipulation #1550 13.04.2025

🎭 The Puppet and the Mirror To shape a mind is to touch its freedom. Can intention ever be innocent when it bends another’s path? AI-generated content.

Social Ontology: The Metaphysics of the Social World #1549 13.04.2025

🌐 The Invisible Structures We Obey Before we speak of justice, we stand on scaffolds of the unseen. What if society is real—but only because we believe? AI-generated content.

Simone Weil: A Philosopher of Margins and Paradoxes #1548 13.04.2025

🌌 The Gravity of the Forgotten She lived on the edge of power, aching toward the absolute. Is love more real when it has no home? AI-generated content.

Radulphus Brito: Medieval Logic, Metaphysics, and Ethics #1547 13.04.2025

🕯️ Where Silence Meets Reason He spoke in syllogisms and prayed through paradox. In the brittle quiet of medieval thought, does logic save the soul—or conceal it? AI-generated content.

The Common Good: A Philosophical Overview #1546 08.04.2025

🏛️ Is society for you—or all of us? Revisit the ancient ideal that still fuels political dreams and civic debates: the elusive “common good.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Epistemology of Disagreement #1545 08.04.2025

🤝 What if smart people completely disagree? Welcome to the philosophical fistfight: when two rational minds collide, who gives way—and why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ancient and Medieval Roots of Empiricism #1544 08.04.2025

📜 Before Bacon, there were rebels. Uncover how observation, experience, and early science bloomed in ancient Greece and Islamic scholarship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Descriptive Decision Theory: Utility, Probability, and Paradoxes #1543 08.04.2025

🎰 Why do we choose what we choose? From gambling brains to broken logic, explore how real decisions expose the chaos beneath reason. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Philosophy of Cosmology #1542 08.04.2025

🪐 What does it mean for the universe to exist? Step beyond space and time as we probe the biggest of big pictures—and our place within it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

W.E.B. Du Bois: Race, Philosophy, and Social Thought #1541 08.04.2025

🖤 Can a soul be split in two? Step into the mind of W.E.B. Du Bois—the philosopher, rebel, and visionary who exposed the “double consciousness” of Black identity. From race and resistance to truth and power, this episode unpacks how Du Bois reshaped the way we think about history, justice, and the very fabric of the self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fine-Tuning in the Universe: Life, Design, and the Multiverse #1540 08.04.2025

🌌 Is the universe rigged for life? Explore the mind-blowing odds behind cosmic constants—chance, design, or infinite universes? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ethics and Concept of Revolution #1539 08.04.2025

🔥 When is rebellion justified? From moral outrage to political upheaval, question the very roots of revolution—who gets to rise, and why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Isaac Polqar: Jewish Averroism, Philosophy, and Defense of Judaism #1538 08.04.2025

📘 When reason defends revelation. Meet the medieval philosopher who bridged Aristotle and Torah, reason and faith, logic and loyalty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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