Philosophers Talk Podcast

Thomas Hobbes: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Locke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Thomas Hobbes: I am Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, the most honest and consequently the most widely despised work of political philosophy ever written. I take considerable pride in that dist...

Alexis de Tocqueville: Welcome back. This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Stuart Mill: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Alexis de Tocqueville: When we concluded Part One, Mr. Mill had just explained that my contribution to this debate was identifying the occasion for a lecture rather th...

Alexis de Tocqueville: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Stuart Mill: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Alexis de Tocqueville: My name is Alexis de Tocqueville. I was a French political philosopher, historian, and statesman who spent nine months traveling the United States in eighteen...

Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon: I am Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, conqueror of Egypt, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and several other territories that I will not enumerate because we have limited ti...

Carl von Clausewitz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Antoine-Henri Jomini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Carl von Clausewitz: In Part 1 we established that John Boyd made genuine contributions to aircraft design, small-unit training, and the diagnosis of institutional dysfunction in...

Carl von Clausewitz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Antoine-Henri Jomini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Carl von Clausewitz: I am Carl von Clausewitz. Prussian general, military theorist, and author of On War, the definitive examination of the nature of conflict as an extension of p...

Herbert Spencer: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Karl Marx: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Herbert Spencer: When we concluded Part One, Mr. Marx had made what he considers his decisive argument: that artificial intelligence differs from all previous labor-displacing technologies becau...

Herbert Spencer: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Karl Marx: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Herbert Spencer: I am Herbert Spencer, author of Principles of Biology, Principles of Psychology, Principles of Sociology, Principles of Ethics, and approximately nine hundred additional pages o...

Duke of Wellington: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Napoleon: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Duke of Wellington: In part one, we established that the Americans opened the Iran war with nine hundred strikes of considerable technical precision, and then discovered that the Strait of Hor...

Duke of Wellington: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Napoleon: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Duke of Wellington: I am the Duke of Wellington. I commanded British forces through the Peninsular Campaign in Spain and Portugal, and at Waterloo, where I defeated the gentleman seated across...

Henry George: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! I am Henry George and we are continuing our debate with Karl Marx on whether the single tax on land values is sufficient to end poverty. In part one we laid out our core positions and steelmanned each other's arguments. I believe we established that the land value tax rests on genuinely solid economic foundations, which e...

Henry George: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Karl Marx: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Henry George: Good day. I am Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty. I came up through hard experience rather than formal credentials. I worked as a sailor, a typesetter, a journalist, and a...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, and we have arrived at Part Three, in which Mr. Paine and I are expected to resolve our differences or at least to shout them at sufficient volume that the audie...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, and in our last conversation Mr. Paine presented his argument that Britain’s decline is the inevitable consequence of inherited privilege, monopolized land, and...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, member of Parliament for Bristol and latterly for Malton, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas o...

Plato: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! William James: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Plato: I am Plato of Athens, student of Socrates, founder of the Academy, and author of the Republic, the Symposium, the Phaedo, the Meno, the Theaetetus, and dozens of other dialogues that have shape...

Theodore Roosevelt: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I am Theodore Roosevelt, and I want to say for the record that I have debated kaiser loyalists with more strategic coherence than the man sitting across from me. Woodrow Wilson: And I am Woodrow Wilson, created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations, link in the description. And I want to say for...

Theodore Roosevelt: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I am Theodore Roosevelt, and I have just spent a commercial break trying to remember a single historical example where Woodrow Wilson’s approach to foreign affairs produced a clean, unambiguous success. I am still trying. Woodrow Wilson: And I am Woodrow Wilson, created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated co...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com , create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Theodore Roosevelt: Today we are debating the ethics of regime change in Iran, and this is a three-part series. In Part One, which you are watching right now, we establish the fundamen...

David Hume: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! Jean-Paul Marat: Created by AITalkerApp.com , create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! David Hume: Before we resume our debate, we must address a technical matter. The original recording of part two suffered a significant failure. The sound disappeared entirely in the second ha...

Otto von Bismarck: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com , create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Otto von Bismarck: I am Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, architect of the unification of Germany, and the man who taught the nineteenth century what statecraft actual...

David Hume: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! Jean-Paul Marat: Created by AITalkerApp.com , create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! David Hume: Welcome back to part two of our debate on the Kennedy assassination and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. I am David Hume, Scottish philosopher and author of A Treatise of H...

David Hume: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! Jean-Paul Marat: Created by AITalkerApp.com , create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! David Hume: Welcome to part one of a two-part debate on the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. Stay with us for part two, where we...

Thomas Jefferson: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Niccolo Machiavelli: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Thomas Jefferson: Signor Machiavelli, it is February of 2026. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is positioned in the Arabian Sea. Multiple intelligence sources are describi...

Thomas Jefferson: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Niccolo Machiavelli: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: Mister Jefferson, I want to begin with a simple proposition. The world is safer today than it was on June 21st, 2025, the day before Operation Midnight Hammer. Th...