A podcast about the philosophy of everything, from a philosopher of time
Latest episodes
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1 h 21
We experience real time when watching films- the only real time we care about anyway
Watching a film. Listening to a story. Counting bug numbers. Powers and the roman number system. Theories of number definition and use. Emotional time. The baptism watch. Real time…
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48 min
On storytelling and its necessity
From a philosophical perspective, I talk about storytelling, our want for it, its dangers, the nonsense around it, its role in art, and whether we need it, can ignore it, or if it…
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26 min
25 December
Ritual holidays as moments out of time
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54 min
Remembering it well, because we want to, because we must
Can we trust our memory? Or can we doubt it? It might seem that, for at least what we recall and don't forget, our memory shows us our lives. But psychological evidence suggests it…
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40 min
Sensitivity and Time
A discourse on feelings, their role in reasoning. The beginning of thinking about our experience of time. Voles in derelict sites. What you ought to feel. Walking mountains
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25 min
Frozen on the edge of sleep
My experiences of sleep paralysis: lights, voices, possession. What it means and why it might occur. How to make sense of it. And one experience that might not fit
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57 min
The experience of shapeshifting and time: werewolves, selkies, and bats
I analyse the possibility of changing into a completely different creature, as found in folklore and fantasy - werewolves, selkies ('were-seals') - and even transformers. If you co…
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35 min
A Grain of Time
Living in the city and thinking about the meaning of noise, the long long long time to come, the death of the sun, the imagined chain of others' experience, and the difference betw…
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35 min
A Walk in the Woods
The most unnatural thing about humans is we like to take a walk in the woods.