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11 May 2025
The Power of Prediction
You’re standing at the top of a mountain, surveying the vast landscape below. The information your senses take in flows to your brain, which processes it to create a representation of the scene. Or does it? What if instead of directly perceiving the...
Recent Episodes
04 May 2025 
Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
The works of Derek Parfit (1942-2017) have had a profound influence on how philosophers understand rational decision-making, ethics, and personal...
27 April 2025 
Are Rules Meant to Be Broken?
Rules exist for a reason: they tell us what to expect, they help us coordinate our actions, and they stop us from exploiting one another. But isn't...
20 April 2025 
Changing Minds on Climate Change
There is consensus among scientists that global warming is real and that it’s caused by human activity. Despite the overwhelming evidence and the...
Upcoming Episodes
18 May 2025
Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley became one of the best known public intellectuals in the UK, and was one of the first philosophers to talk about climate change. Though...
25 May 2025
True Contradictions
If you want to tell the truth, you shouldn’t contradict yourself—that’s just common sense. A suspect who was home on the night of the crime can’t...
01 June 2025
Philippa Foot
Philippa Foot invented the thought experiment that famously became known as the Trolley Problem. Despite the vast industry of “trolleyology” it...
