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Recent Episodes

From the Vaults: Frantz Fanon and Political Activism

Michael Burns/ Madhu Krishnan/ John Narayan
From the vaults: On Free Speech

Lisa Appignanesi/ Rae Langton/ Stephen Law/ Peter McDonald
From the vaults: Is Political Violence Ever Justified?

Maeve Cooke/ Kimberley Hutchings
From the vaults: The Open Society as an Enemy

Jason McKenzie Alexander
From the vaults: The Ethics of ‘Nudge’

George Loewenstein/ Samuel Nguyen/ Drazen Prelec/ Luc Bovens
From the vaults: The Worst Form of Government?

Beatrix Campbell/ Peter Hallward/ Edward Kanterian
From the vaults: The Social Lives of Microbes

Kevin Foster/ Sara Mitri/ Maureen O’Malley

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Essays

Thought-provoking, philosophically informed essays from contemporary philosophers

Just Leisure?

Blain Neufeld argues that adults and children have a right to free time
The Problem of Trust

Paul Faulkner explains why trusting strangers can be the rational thing to do
Mental Conflict

Hili Razinsky on what ambivalence means for the person and for rationality
A History of Human Dignity

Remy Debes on the tangled, contradictory origins of our concept of dignity
Does the Future Exist?

Emily Thomas on C. D. Broad’s theory of time
Can Manipulative Health Campaigns Be Justified?

T. M. Wilkinson on the ethics of manipulation in health and advertising
How to Express Your Emotions in Writing

Trip Glazer offers a philosophical defence of the exclamation mark
What Is Pain?

Grant Duncan on the complexity of pain
Thinking Small about the Ideal Society

Brian Kogelmann on living better by living more apart
Do Electrons Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip Goff on panpsychism and the nature of matter

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