In this issue

Philosophy & Literature

"Stand Out Of My Light"

Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.

7 mins

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.

10 mins

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

8 mins

Towards Love

George Mason on love as shared identity.

7 mins

Hume's Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.

5 mins

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

10+ mins

How to Have a Good Life

Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca's account of the good life is really practical.

7 mins

Horseplay in Hibernia

Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.

7 mins

Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing

Stiofán Ó Murchadha knowing how we know.

10+ mins

Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

6 mins

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.

9 mins

Irish Philosophy & Me

Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.

6 mins

Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy

Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.

9 mins

The How & Why Of Consciousness

Raymond Tallis says the mysteries haven't been solved.

8 mins

Film - DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

Jason Friend hacks your identity algorithm.

7 mins

The Discipline of Action

Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to practice forebearance.

4 mins

Terry Pinkard

Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC, talks to AmirAli Maleki about how Hegel can help us make sense of modern social, cultural and political hot topics.

10+ mins

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Warren Ward looks at the history of a man who looked at the history of the world.

8 mins

Parrhesia & Doing Philosophy with Children

Maria daVenza Tillmanns considers the need for freedom of speech for children.

10+ mins

Torture & Ticking Bombs

Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example's usefulness.

6 mins

Saying, Keeping Silent & Showing

Slavoj Žižek on Wittgenstein and Cancel Culture.

8 mins

The Will Is Not Free: You Have To Earn It

Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.

10 mins

Materialism, Freedom & Ethics

Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.

10+ mins

Criticising Strawson's Compatibilism

Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.

10+ mins

What Is Free Will?

Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.

10+ mins

Spinoza & Other Determinists

Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.

7 mins

Prince Shōtoku (574-622)

B.V.E. Hyde looks at the statesman who fathered Japanese philosophy.

10 mins

Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt's explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

10+ mins

Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving

Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.

4 mins

Russell's Moral Quandary

David Berman holds key oppositions in tension, including concerning morality.

10 mins

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