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Philosophy

Timeless questions for the examined life, drawn from the great thinkers of the ages.

25 episodes · tap a title to listen

01

Socratic Method: The Art of Knowing What You Do Not Know

7:29

02

The Problem of Induction: Can We Trust Experience?

7:30

03

Free Will and Determinism: The Ancient Puzzle Persists

8:01

04

The Ship of Theseus: Identity Through Change

7:33

05

The Trolley Problem: When Good Intentions Lead to Difficult Choices

7:43

06

Meaning and Purpose: The Question That Refuses to Stay Answered

7:36

07

The Examined Life: Self Knowledge and Its Limits

7:41

08

Ethical Relativism: When in Rome, or Not?

7:27

09

The Nature of Consciousness: The Hard Problem

7:48

10

Truth and Its Discontents: What Does It Mean for Something to Be True?

7:22

11

Personal Identity: What Makes You the Same Person Over Time?

7:37

12

The Fact Value Distinction: Can We Derive Ought from Is?

7:14

13

Epistemic Humility: The Wisdom of Uncertainty

7:43

14

The Paradox of Choice: When More Options Make Us Worse Off

7:28

15

Thought Experiments: Philosophy Laboratory

8:52

16

The Problem of Other Minds: How Do We Know Anyone Else Is Conscious?

7:10

17

Moral Luck: When Ethics Depends on What We Cannot Control

7:15

18

The Veil of Ignorance: Designing Justice Without Knowing Your Place

7:25

19

Time and Experience: Does the Past Exist?

7:29

20

Living with Uncertainty: Philosophy as a Way of Life

7:44

21

Wu Wei: The Wisdom of Effortless Action

7:06

22

The Middle Way: The Buddha and the Refusal of Extremes

7:13

23

Mono no Aware: The Gentle Sadness of Impermanence

7:06

24

Anatta: The Self That Cannot Be Found

7:04

25

The Dao That Cannot Be Named: Language at the Edge of Meaning

7:00