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Latest episodes
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Talk about a revolution!
The rise of science was more mess than method; the untold story of a glorious revolution.
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Free speech
Should there be limits to freedom of speech?
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RN subject podcasts are closing
We really love having you listen to RN but we need to let you know that we’ll be closing our subject podcasts (don’t worry—we aren’t cancelling any shows). To keep hearing stories…
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Martha Nussbaum on the limits of anger
Is anger a sign of moral seriousness or a dangerous slippery slope?
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Is love an illusion?
Love and the philosophy of modern relationships
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David Chalmers on Pokémon Go and the future of reality
How would you like your reality? David Chalmers has some suggestions.
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24 min ↗
Lesson Plans: Resting on the Ocean Floor
Lesson two of this radio instructional focuses on the nervous system and guides you to your 'vegetable body' to recuperate, rest and digest.
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I’m just not myself
Buddhist thought holds that at core there is no real self—two philosophers at the junction of east and west, self and mind.
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Hilary Putnam
We mark the passing of Hilary Putnam—and explore some of his key insights.
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Justification, not recognition
As we lurch towards a possible referendum on constitutional recognition, at least one political theorist is asking some deep philosophical questions about what that actually means.…
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In defence of the foodie
Susan Wolf counters the criticisms and fends off the antipathy directed towards the foodie.
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How to love a less free will
Free will is on the run—so why not relax and enjoy a healthy dose of compatibilism.
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Tracking in the dark: the sovereign will of Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Aileen Moreton-Robinson has spent her intellectual life exploring racism and power. But it all begins in the bush on Stradbroke Island when her grandfather taught her the skill of…
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Ethics of being a foodie
Why do we love to deride foodies?
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Cicero on growing old
Marcus Tullius Cicero on an undeniable fact of life—and how it fares in our modern utilitarian world?
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Can you trust your memory
What’s so wrong with the storehouse model of memory?
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Plants, philosophy and sentient beings
What can the plant world teach us about our attitudes towards sentient life?
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Charles Taylor
Since its publication in 2007 Charles Taylor’s magnum opus A Secular Age has gathered great intellectual momentum. His analysis has never been more apt.
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A public act
Doing it in public might seem like a good thing, but is the truth about philosophy hard to bear?
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Political philosophy in the world: Liberalism and the end of the world as we know it
Political liberalism is a great achievement. But has it come at a heavy cost?