A philosophy podcast · 44 series · 363 episodes
The shared work of thinking for ourselves.
44 questions, from what you owe a stranger to the limit of argument itself — 363 episodes, designed end to end. Start with whichever question matters most to you.
Written by AI under human direction. Every series lists the reading it was built from. How it's made.
Part One
The assumptions you didn't know you had
the easiest place to start
The Inner Life
- 01 What You Owe a Stranger (Singer)start here I scrolled past the dying kid and bought the shoes. 7 episodes
- 02 The Self Across Time Am I even the same person I was — and who am I saving for? 8 episodes
- 03 Loneliness, Friendship & Solitude Four hundred friends and I've never felt more alone. 8 episodes
- 04 Grief & the Good Death They've stopped asking, and I don't want to be done. 8 episodes
First Questions
- 05 Mind & Machinestart here There's nobody home in there — and I can't say how I know. 8 episodes
- 06 Taste & Beauty Why do I keep arguing about a song if it's just taste? 9 episodes
- 07 How to Be Good We argue, both of us right, and never get one inch closer. 8 episodes
- 08 Choice & Blame (Free Will) He swears he couldn't help it. I'm furious anyway. 8 episodes
Part Two
Working out what you think
harder questions
The Demands of Life
- 09 Weakness of Will & the Engineered Selfstart here I knew better, and my thumb kept going anyway. 8 episodes
- 10 Do You Deserve What You Have? I did everything right and I'm still drowning — whose fault is that? 8 episodes
- 11 Money & What It Can't Measure Some things being for sale just feels wrong, and I can't say why. 8 episodes
- 12 The Trust Recession It could be her voice — or it could be a fake. 8 episodes
- 13 The Stoicism Question I keep telling myself to let it go — and I'm not sure I should. 8 episodes
The Moral Emotions
How Should I Live?
- 17 Loyalty & Betrayalstart here They did the unforgivable thing, and they're still mine. 9 episodes
- 18 Honesty, Tact & Self-Deception Did I spare her, or did I just spare myself? 8 episodes
- 19 Should I Have Kids? Should I have a child — and who exactly is it for? 9 episodes
- 20 Do You Owe Your Family Anything? After everything they did for me — what do I actually owe? 9 episodes
- 21 Reasons to Love My friend's in love with an app, and I can't say why that's wrong. 9 episodes
- 22 What's a Life For? I chose the smaller life, and I can't tell if it was brave or a quiet giving-up. 8 episodes
Across Time, Death & Meaning
- 23 Climate & Future Generationsstart here I'm sacrificing for people who don't exist yet and can't be harmed. 9 episodes
- 24 Should You Want to Live Forever? Of course I'd take the pill — and then what? And then again? 8 episodes
- 25 Hope, Despair & the Future My kid asked if it'll be okay, and I couldn't answer. 9 episodes
- 26 Is There Anyone There? (the God arguments) Show me something — and I'll believe there's anyone there. 8 episodes
- 27 Meaning Without God There's no one keeping score — so what was any of it for? 8 episodes
The Shared World & Technology
- 28 Knowledge & Power I'm deciding how much of you to believe before you finish. 9 episodes
- 29 Are You Responsible for What You Believe? He says he did his own research, and I can't find the line between us. 8 episodes
- 30 Language, LLMs & Machine Understanding It explained my own problem back to me — but does it mean a word of it? 9 episodes
- 31 AI Governance The computer said no, and there's no one to ask why. 8 episodes
- 32 Disability & Personhood She's looking right at me, and she doesn't know who I am. 8 episodes
- 33 Is Something Wrong With Me? (therapy culture) Am I broken, or is this just what being a person feels like? 8 episodes
- 34 Race & the Contract I don't see race, just the person — isn't that the fair answer? 8 episodes
- 35 Roles, Roots & the Unchosen Tie I made myself — so why did that old street do that to my chest? 8 episodes
- 36 Who Should Rule (Confucian democracy) The voters are hopeless — but no one rules me without my say. 8 episodes
- 37 Work, Meaning & Automation A machine does my job now — what were the eleven years for? 8 episodes
Part Three
Questions about the questions
the hardest of all
- 38 Is Morality Even Real?start here I know some things are just wrong — but where is the wrongness? 8 episodes
- 39 Moral Inheritance (MacIntyre) I keep seeing the same trick, and I think I've been doing it too. 8 episodes
- 40 Conceptual Engineering We're not fighting about the thing — we're fighting about the word. 8 episodes
- 41 Standpoint-Genealogy I question everyone's angle — why never my own? 8 episodes
- 42 Buddhist Philosophy of Mind What's the last thing left that's really me? 8 episodes
- 43 What Is Wisdom? I can look up anything, and I still don't know what to do. 8 episodes
- 44 Acknowledgement & the Limits of Method (Cavell) I argued it perfectly and we're still on opposite sides. 8 episodes