Philosophy Podcasts

Adrian Moore journeys through philosophical thought on infinity over the last two and a half thousand years.

The Famine of Knowledge is a conversation in the form of a podcast, we talk about art, culture, music and superficially about philosophy

Transmissions and Archival Clips of a Cosmic Anthropologist. Exploring and documenting the nature of living in the science-fictional condition of the early twenty-first century. Examining topics like: hyperreality and metafictionality. Diving deep into the science of annd issues surrounding DeExtinction & ReWilding. Broadcasting live to the centre of the Galaxy, simulcast on Cosmic TV. “The […]

Podcast by M Twist

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A collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “Defences” of things at best less appreciated than they ought to be. “… It becomes increasingly apparent, therefore, that the world is in a permanent danger of being misjudged. That this is no fanciful or mystical idea may be tested by simple examples. The two absolutely basic […]

10 December 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s unbuilt mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. The Symposium is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting new discoveries for the Oxford […]

A weekly show about philosophy, science and the history of ideas from the Allen Brothers and Mark Sanders (best known to listeners as “America’s Sweetheart”). If you can imagine what would happen if Plato and Carl Sagan were guests on The Daily Show, then you have a pretty good idea of what’s going on here. […]

The Skeptic Wire is a show about looking at the world using what Carl Sagan called The Baloney Detector Kit. The weeks panelists will discuss local Texas politics, National politics, separation of Church and State, science, pseudo-science, social matters, and the promotion of critical thinking.

An aggregation of skeptical podcasts

We are living in some pretty interesting times. There seem to be technological and scientific progress all around us but have we evolved as humans? Moral and political issues seem to rule the day and it might help if we take the time to think through the issues. Modern Mayhem serves to shed some light […]

The New York Times Magazine’s Amy Bloom, Jack Shafer and Kenji Yoshino debate readers’ quandaries and classic ethical conundrums.

SuchThatCast is dedicated to getting to know some of the most influential philosophers (broadly speaking) of today. It seeks to provide an alternative to most other philosophy podcasts (many of which are excellent), by taking the form of a face-to-face conversation (I will never do a phone/skype interview) where the guest is free (and encouraged) […]

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.

New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology, a series of workshops held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March and 12th-13th June 2013. The aim of this project is to make a bold and lasting impact on religious epistemology. This project aims to bring recent developments in epistemology to bear on topics in the philosophy of […]

Practical Ethics Bites is a series of audio podcasts on practical ethics targeted specifically at pupils studying philosophy in UK schools. It is produced by the team behind the popular podcast Philosophy Bites, David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. Philosophy Bites has had over 21 million downloads. David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s […]

Podcast by James Richman

Escape Velocity Radio was a monthly podcast hosted by Chris Hannah and Derek Hogue which journeyed into the depths of ethics, politics, culture, music, science, philosophy, professional hockey and the very nature of reality itself.

Congress of Forms is a podcast consisting of recorded essays, philosophical reflections, and conversations about various aspects of being human.

In this series of podcasts Marianne Talbot uses some famous arguments in the history of philosophy to examine philosophy as a discipline. By harnessing participants’ intuitions on both sides of the various arguments she encourages her audience actually to do philosophy. In listening to these podcasts you can yourself learn how to do philosophy, not […]

RMPSuccess – revision podcast for Higher RMPS and Higher Philosophy. More information available at www.RMPSuccess.com

Is normality – or conformity to certain parameters of behaviour and appearance – a necessary condition of all advanced societies or a tyranny which constrains individual aspiration and social evolution? Do conceptions of normality have any objective basis or are they merely social constructions, inexorably tied to the exercise of political and economic power? These […]

René Descartes, the ‘father of modern philosophy’ wrote his essay Meditations (published 1641) not long after Shakespeare published the Sonnets (1609). The change from Shakespeare to Descartes represents the shift from the Renaissance to the era of Modernism. The humanism of the Renaissance gives way to rationalism and a faith in the emerging sciences.

Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important philosopher ever to write in English”. His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. The most significant features of Hume’s work, as understood by Reid, are the representive theory of […]

Problems in the past have relevance in today’s society. Learn philosophy and learn Spanish.

With host Stefan Molyneux, podcast topics range from philosophy to economics to art to how to achieve real freedom in the modern world. Passionate, articulate, funny and irreverent, Freedomain Radio shines a bold light on old topics – and invents a few new ones to boot!

In Pint-Sized Philosophy, Ed & Rob apply a philosophical eye to a range of contemporary issues.

If Descartes is the father of modern philosophy, Hume is the person who gave shape to the contemporary philosophical world. First by querying Descartes’ theories about knowledge, and then developing his own modest account of knowledge, and later his theories of ethics and aesthetics.

Many people and countries are now beginning to evaluate the success of their lives or society not purely in terms of money or gross domestic product. The currency of traditional economics – preference satisfaction – has fallen into question as an ethical value. The global financial crisis is seen by many as a failure of […]

This Podcast is a casual conversation between friends about the role philosophy has in everyday life and how an individual’s everyday life can benefit from a well-defined, integrated philosophy. This show isn’t about advocating or endorsing any particular philosophy, but instead about giving the listeners a chance to reach their own conclusions.

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) is a leading research centre, combining expertise in economics, geography and law. Our objective is to study the intersection between the public and private sectors of the economy, and in particular to understand the right way to organise and deliver public services. The Centre aims to develop […]

Stephan Hartmann is regarded as one of the leading scholars in the fields of formal epistemology and philosophy of science, and he became a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at LMU last October. In 2012, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Germany’s most generously endowed prize for distinguished contributions to research, that brought […]

Talks recorded at the Limits of Duty workshop at Newnham College Cambridge on 14th June 2013. The purpose of the workshop is primarily to foster engagement with issues of supererogation, (over) demandingness, and the value and foundation of duty, and other issues surrounding the limits of duty broadly construed. (Photograph copyright Ad Meskens)

In this subject we examine some of the central problems that have captivated philosophers throughout millennia, as well as those that scientific advances and cultural changes have only recently brought to our attention. These might include: where did the universe come from? Might a machine think? Is time travel possible? Is it morally acceptable to […]

Armchair Philosophy is a podcast about philosophical conversations. We try to make ordinary things sound more philosophical, all the while making philosophical things sound interesting to everyone. We explore the limits of the human mind all from the comfort of what can only be described as very nice armchairs.

Into the Ether is an internet radio show primarily centered around philosophy, where we take nothing with a grain of salt. With a clear and open mind, we explore the infinite recesses of thought. Into the Ether delves into the spiritual, mystical, supernatural, metaphysical and bizarre. If it’s uncommon, absurd, obscure or hidden, we have […]

William Godwin (1756-1836), philosophical anarchist, novelist and intellectual, kept a diary from 1788 until a few weeks before his death. The diary has recently been transcribed and edited and is available on the web at: http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. It offers a hugely detailed if deeply cryptic window on Godwin’s literary life, his familial life (as the lover […]

A podcast based on logical thought, with a particular focus on economics, statistics, government, philosophy and morality.

Second Series on David Hume and his Philosophy. Focusing on his central principles in philosophy including Hume’s theory on Ideas, Psychology, Logic, Relations, Induction and Causal Necessity First lecture on David Hume’s Central Principles; focusing on the historical background and Hume’s Chief Argument.

Immanuel Kant wrote extensively on all major topics of intellectual interest. In terms of the publication of major texts his most prolific period was 1781 to 1790. In the domains of epistemology and metaphysics he published the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. In the domain of ethics he published the Groundwork of the Metaphysics […]

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy. Envisioned by him as an introductory text, Russell also used the work to propose a number of novel theses which left an indelible mark on the development of analytic philosophy. This graduate conference at the University of Glasgow aimed to promote fresh engagement […]

Cambridge Pragmatism: a Research Workshop 31 May — 1 June, 2012 :: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Themes Pragmatists approach philosophical problems by enquiring about the practical role of disputed notions — truth, causation, value, or necessity, for example — in human life. Over the past century, many distinguished Cambridge philosophers have been pragmatists […]

Religious, Phenomenological and Existential Perspectives on Faith and the Search for Certitude (conference March 2012). Keynote speaker Professor Jean-Luc Marion de l’Academie franҫaise.

Podcasting transhumanist perspectives on science, philosophy, ethics, and the future of intelligent life: George Dvorsky’s Podcast Blog.

Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate […]

The mind is a fascinating entity. Where, after all, would we be without it? But what exactly is it? These days many people believe the mind simply is the brain. Descartes would have disagreed profoundly. He recommended a dualism of substance. Modern philosophers are again finding various forms of dualism attractive because the problems with […]

In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical thought. We shall consider, for example, what it is for an action to be right or wrong, whether we can have moral knowledge and whether freewill is essential to morality. We shall reflect on four key ethical theories (virtue ethics, deontology, non-cognitivism […]

Powerful ideas for all lovers of personal and political freedom – Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web, and was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Podcast Awards. Topics range from politics to philosophy to science to economics to relationships to atheism – and how […]

In this series of talks and events we seek to further our understanding of what makes us ‘human’ and the meaning of life. This series is presented by Sophia Europa Oxford and the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford.

This mini-series is intended to introduce George Eliot to undergraduates. The first lecture ranges widely across her works, including her atypical novella ‘The Lifted Veil’. It notes the power and range of Eliot’s intellect, and her changing attitudes to the proper function and remit of the intellect and consciousness. The second lecture considers how narrative […]

The Hall of Philosophers brings you regular discussion and debate on spirituality, religion, science, metaphysics, skepticism, stoicism, technology, law, morality, politics, cyber-freedom, and philosophy. Join the pillars as the critically analyze the most important questions of our time.

Can a cat be both alive and dead? Can a computer think? How does a tortoise beat Achilles in a race? Voiced by comedian David Mitchell, these fast-paced animations explain six famous thought experiments, from the ancient Greeks to Albert Einstein, that have changed the way we see the world. Subjects as vast as time […]

These lectures are about the moral obligations that well-off people have toward poor people living in other countries. Poverty kills about one-third of humankind. Many philosophers argue that the average person in a rich country has a moral obligation to do something about this. These lectures introduce those arguments, as well as the objections that […]

The John Locke Lectures are among the world’s most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.

Lecture series introducing some of the main debates about metaphor in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of language. No background in either philosophy of language or aesthetics is required. Questions considered include: Are there some thoughts that can only be expressed in metaphor? Why do we speak metaphorically, especially in describing how things look, sound, taste […]

Have you ever considered what being conscious actually means? By choosing to live in a particular state are you consenting to be subject to all its laws? For some there’s an assumption that philosophy might not be relevant to modern life but Dr. Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University argues that […]

Although what constitutes justice may vary depending on culture or historical context, all forms of justice are built on a foundation of moral assumptions that include ideas about ethics, fairness and the law. Philosophers have often debated the nature of both morality and justice and their relationship with each other and in this collection we […]

Ever wondered what it would be like to study philosophy? This unit will introduce you to the teaching methods employed and the types of activities and assignments you would be asked to undertake should you wish to study the OU module A211 Philosophy and the human situation. This study unit is just one of many […]

What defines individual freedom in a civilised society? Philosophers have argued over such questions for centuries. This unit looks at various concepts of freedom, asking you to think carefully about how freedom is restricted by our place in society and how it can vary from state to state. This study unit is just one of […]

What is a person? This unit examines this philosophical question concerning the nature of personhood. You will examine whether a ‘person’ is the same as a ‘human being’, and look at whether it is our free will that in the end defines us as a ‘person’. This study unit is just one of many that […]