13 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
A sceptic's guide to meditation and mindfulness—interviews with meditation teachers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers, grounded in honest self-questioning.
Wide-ranging conversations on intellectual and cultural history—literature, philosophy, music, myth—conducted with unusual depth, eccentricity, and genuine erudition.
Harvard's most famous undergraduate course in political philosophy—working through Rawls, Kant, Aristotle, Bentham, and Mill using real contemporary dilemmas as testing grounds.
Weekly panel debate on the ethical dimensions of current events—four commentators interrogate expert witnesses and each other with rigour, interruption, and genuine disagreement.
Philosophers from Oxford's Uehiro Centre discuss real ethical dilemmas—AI, bioethics, climate, global poverty, reproductive ethics—with rigorous argument and analytical precision.
Applies tools of rationality—Bayesian reasoning, calibration, motivated cognition—to questions in science, philosophy, and everyday life; intellectually honest and self-critical.
A unified philosophical project on how to live and think under radical uncertainty—covering randomness, black swan events, antifragility, and the ethics of having skin in the game.
A philosophical dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and Krishna on the eve of battle—covering duty (dharma), selfless action (karma yoga), devotion, knowledge, and the nature of the self.
Long-form interviews with scientists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists—covering evolutionary biology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the science of human cognition.
A chronological walk through the entire history of philosophy—from Thales to the present—including Islamicate, African, and Indian traditions typically omitted from survey courses.
Four former philosophy PhD students read and debate primary philosophical texts—Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Kant—with genuine argument, humour, and no grade pressure.
A moral philosopher and a moral psychologist argue about ethics, science, rationality, and culture—irreverent, erudite, genuinely funny, and substantively rigorous.
Conservative intellectual political commentary—ideas-first discussion of conservatism, American political theory, the decline of institutions, and the crisis of liberal democracy.