Themed collections from the Forum’s podcast

 

 

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LIVING WITH ANIMALS

Hunted, farmed, domesticated; our relationship with non-human animals spans millennia. And humans have often understood themselves in contrast to the rest of the animal world. What do current attitudes to non-human animals tell us about how we see ourselves today? What do we owe other species? We explore the nature and meaning of our relationship with non-human animals

 

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PROTEST, PREJUDICE, AND JUSTICE

If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men

— Frantz Fanon

 

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THE STATE, BORDERS, AND PEOPLE

Refugee crises, independence movements, Brexit: so many political problems in recent times stem from the how we envisage the proper relationship between states and people. In this collection, we probe the historical, philosophical, and political ideas behind the headlines.

 

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LIFE AS WE KNOW IT

What is it like to be a human?

 

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MAKING A STATEMENT

Language, speech, and being understood

 

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STRANGER THAN FICTION

There may be more things in Heaven and Earth than dreamt of in science fiction…

 

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STATES OF MIND

The things we think and feel, why we think and feel them, and what it tells us about being human

 

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LINES OF THOUGHT

From Aristotelianism and Darwinism to empiricism and existentialism, we’re looking at some of the big philosophical traditions

 

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MENTAL HEALTH

From philosophical foundations and political consequences to suffering as learning and philosophy as therapy, we focus on mental health, mental illness, and getting by

 

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THINKERS

The life and work of some remarkable thinkers

 

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DEMOCRACY

Democracy, its institutions, and its challenges and limitations

 

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ANIMAL MINDS

From whales to microbes, philosophers, scientists, and writers discuss animal intelligence