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The Philosopher & The News | Listen Now | Podcast In this new podcast, Alexis Papazoglou will be interviewing some of the world's most interesting philosophers. Together, they will bring to the surface the philosophy hidden behind the biggest news st...

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"Trump vs Musk: A rift in the MAGA alliance"
Alexis Papazoglou talks with Yascha Mounk about the two galaxy-sized egos who tried to work together as well as a deeper ideological tension between Silicon Valley and Steve Bannon.
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Peter Singer and Fifty Years of Animal Liberation In 1975, Australian philosopher Peter Singer asked a deceptively simple question of animals: ‘Can they suffer?’ The implications launched a revolution in our thinking about animal rights and food ethi...

Sunday read:
"Peter Singer and 50 Years of Animal Liberation"

Daan Stoop explores the WWII origin of veganism to stop "that other holocaust" and the influence of Peter Singer, who asked "Can animals suffer?" instead of 'Can they think?' to argue speciesism is as indefensible as racism.

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YouTube video by The Philosopher "Are Progressives to Blame for Trump’s Attack on Universities?": Sasha Mudd with Alexis Papazoglou

ICYMI: "Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?"

Sasha Mudd & Alexis Papazoglou on how universities struggle under authoritarian regimes, classism, and the role of values, government, and politics in academic research.
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"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan Calls for regime change in Iran have surged once again following the June 2025 aerial bombardments by Israel, encouraged by hawkish factions in Washington and Tel Aviv. These military actions, ostensi...

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"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran"

Dabbagh & Hassan argue that external efforts to bring about regime change risk reanimating the imperialist dynamics that the Islamic Republic long exploited to justify its rule.
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YouTube video by The Philosopher "How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking": Shannon Vallor with Audrey Borowski

ICYMI: "How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking"
Shannon Vallor with Audrey Borowski

On the Turing test, self-knowledge, the good life in the digital age, uses for AI, regulating AI, and post-humanism.
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What was Marx’s Concept of Ideology? Sandro Brito Rojas argues that, for Marx, ideology is a false consciousness that obscures the true nature of social relations, particularly the alienation caused by the division between mental and mat...

Sunday read:
"What was Marx's Concept of Ideology?"

Sandro Brito Rojas contrasts neutral and negative interpretations of the word, takes us through Napoleon's pejorative use, then to Marx urging us to remain on the "real ground of history."
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TODAY - Tues. July 1 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?"

Sasha Mudd in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou

Did universities allow political ideology to contaminate their project of open inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge and truth?

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How to Reclaim Our Humanity

TODAY - Mon. June 30 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking"
Shannon Vallor in conversation with Audrey Borowski

How can we rethink AI to help us repair a broken world?

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How to Reclaim Our Humanity

Shannon Vallor, author of "The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" will join us to discuss AI as a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, calling us to rethink what AI can be.

Mon. June 30th - 2pm ET / 7pm UK
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It Takes All Kinds: On Friendship John Lysaker explores the many forms and values of friendship. He explores friendship as a lived interaction and examines the various goods it provides, such as recognition, growth, and care. Rather t...

Sunday read:
"It Takes All Kinds: On Friendship"

John Lysaker argues for diversity in friendship, that even imperfect or partial bonds enrich our lives and shape who we become as they "check our limits and metabolise our varied potentials".

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Progressives and the Attack on Universities

Sasha Mudd, Philosopher-at-Large for Prospect Magazine, will join us to discuss Trump's ban on foreign students, cut to federal funding, and use of other authoritarian tactics to undermine universities.

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Progressives and the Attack on Universities

Join us Tues. July 1 - 2pm ET/ 7pm UK for

"Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?"

Richard Rorty warned of resentment towards higher ed. Are unis too removed from society to engage?

Sasha Mudd with Alexis Papazoglou
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How to Reclaim Our Humanity

Join us Mon. June 30 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK for the finale to our "AI and the Digital" series:

"How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking"
Shannon Vallor with Audrey Borowski

Can AI be a way to relaim our human potential for growth?

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Rituals of Disappearance Roddy Brett explores the haunting legacy of enforced disappearance as a tool of political violence, particularly in Latin America. He examines the psychological and societal impacts on the families of...

Sunday read:
Roddy Brent explores the psychological and societal impacts of disappearance as a tool of political violence, delving into daily rituals of hope and despair, and calls for critical engagement with this crime against humanity.
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YouTube video by The Philosopher "Black Stories of Freedom": James B. Haile III in conversation with Alessandra Raengo

ICYMI: "Black Stories of Freedom"
James B. Haile III with Alessandro Raengo

On Black speculative fiction, freedom as a practice, constructing origin stories, freedom, knowledge and peace, and temporality and time travel.
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YouTube video by The Philosopher "AI and Human Creativity": Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski

ICYMI: "AI and Human Creativity"
Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski on AI's impact on the brain, how human creativity differs from AI, creativity as a core human need, and creativity as a process or product.

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Registration is open for this month's "Ask the Philosopher" on Tues. June 24, 1pm ET / 6pm UK with Anthony Morgan (his final appearance), Johanna Fisher, Michael Bavidge, and Tara Needham. Submit questions to thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, and register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

TODAY! Tues. June 17 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"AI and Human Creativity"

Join us for a discussion on the the effects of AI on artistic creation and on what it means to be an author. Where do we go from here with our newest technologies??
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YouTube video by The Young Idealist Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (Book Series) With Dr. Audrey Borowski (Oxford).

The Following video is a special presentation of @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social ‘s Book series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought.

Leibniz in His World: The Making Of A Savant, with Dr. Audrey Borowski (Oxford). youtu.be/2WutcgbYe2k?... #Leibniz #philosophy #PhilSky

Black Stories of Freedom

TODAY! Mon. June 16 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Black Stories of Freedom"
James B. Haile III offers new ways to grasp the implications of Black freedom, and invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and and space, our identities and ourselves.
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"Violence and Disappearance: Knowing and Seeing" By Terrell Carver In this evocative essay, Terrell Carver explores the disturbing power of political violence, memory, and absence. He examines how violence typically communicates through visibility and how disappearan...

Sunday read:
"Violence and Disappearance: Knowing and Seeing"

Terrell Carver examines how violence communicates through visibility and how disappearance as a strategy upends this logic. How can we relate to violence created through erasure?

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AI and Human Creativity

Join Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and Audrey Borowski discussing the impacts and ramifications of AI on human creativity.

Tues. June 17 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

Should we revisit the concept of author? Resist, capitulate, or cooperate?
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Black Stories of Freedom

Meet James B. Haile III, author of "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" on

Mon. June 16 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

Looking at Black life through the lens of speculative fiction to help explore alternative worlds and spaces.
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YouTube video by The Philosopher "The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois": Robert Gooding-Williams with Brandon Terry

ICYMI - "The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois"

Robert Gooding-William with Brandon Terry on what beauty means to Du Bois and why it matters in the struggle against white supremacy. Beauty can ward off despair by showing the oppressed they can alter their social world.
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AI and Human Creativity

Join us Tues. June 17, 2pm ET / 7pm UK for
"AI and Human Creativity"
Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski

Is AI opening up new avenues of perception and exploration or diminishing them? Is co-creation the future?
#Philosophy #philtech #aesthetics

Black Stories of Freedom

Join us Mon. June 16, 2pm ET / 7pm UK for
"Black Stories of Freedom"

James B. Haile III will be in conversation with Alessandra Raengo to explore how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism.

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The Political Aesthetics of W E B Dubois

TODAY! Mon. June 9 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

Robert Gooding-Williams, Yale philosophy professor, will reconstruct WEB Du Bois' defence of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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"The Abolitionism-Reformism Spectrum": A Conversation with Jason Warr The debate between prison reformists and prison abolitionists is raw and heavily politicised. This increases the risk of each side in the debate speaking past each other or criticising straw man versi...

Sunday read:
"The Abolitionism-Reformism Spectrum"

Criminologist Jason Warr, in conversation with Andy West, offers an even-handed assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of both positions regarding prisons, along with some reflections on the morality of punishment.

#Philosophy #moralphil