Philosopher's Zone podcast

Philosopher's Zone

·

  ABC  

The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.

The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.

 

#239

How feminism changed primatology

For decades, primatologists believed that primate societies were structured around aggress... more

Yesterday

34 MINS

34:47

Yesterday


#238

What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the 'Everywhen'

We tend to think of time as a universal experience, something that carries us all along in... more

31 Dec 2025

29 MINS

29:57

31 Dec 2025


#237

Buddhism and nationalism

Buddhism in the West is often thought of as an ethical or philosophical system first and f... more

24 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:42

24 Dec 2025


#236

Innocence and 'child rescue' in the colonial imagination

The forced removal of First Nations children from their families was active government pol... more

17 Dec 2025

37 MINS

37:08

17 Dec 2025


#235

Distributed intelligence and the problem with 'doing your own research'

Conspiracy theorists are turning out to be a resilient bunch, and no amount of refutation ... more

10 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:31

10 Dec 2025


#234

Can atheists be virtuous? The moral philosophy of Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) is best known as a contemporary and defender of Joh... more

04 Dec 2025

41 MINS

41:01

04 Dec 2025


#233

What are we doing when we read?

Reading seems like a simple, uncomplicated activity that most of us enjoy without thinking... more

26 Nov 2025

28 MINS

28:58

26 Nov 2025


#232

Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer

It's been said that the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer sh... more

19 Nov 2025

42 MINS

42:15

19 Nov 2025


#231

Poverty and punishment

The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme exposed a system that unfairly (and ill... more

13 Nov 2025

37 MINS

37:18

13 Nov 2025


#230

Knowledge, culture and parenting apps

There's an app for everything these days, including parenting and childrearing - but at wh... more

06 Nov 2025

28 MINS

28:58

06 Nov 2025


#229

The contradictions of democracy

Democracy is a powerful force for progress, but it's also vulnerable and beset by its own ... more

27 Oct 2025

35 MINS

35:08

27 Oct 2025


#228

Environmental techno-utopias: building nature better

Conservation is the name of the game in most ecological thinking - but in the eyes of some... more

22 Oct 2025

56 MINS

56:10

22 Oct 2025


#227

Slopaganda

Are you troubled by the way that social media has enabled the spread of propaganda? Well, ... more

14 Oct 2025

35 MINS

35:55

14 Oct 2025


#226

Indigenous literature and the academy in Australia

As an academic discipline, Australian literature has been a largely white affair, with the... more

09 Oct 2025

28 MINS

28:28

09 Oct 2025


#225

Albert Camus, fascism and America

Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French... more

02 Oct 2025

46 MINS

46:40

02 Oct 2025


#224

What beauty apps are doing to us

Beauty apps are becoming more and more miraculously high-tech, but also more and more inva... more

25 Sep 2025

33 MINS

33:22

25 Sep 2025


#223

Are babies conscious?

Babies cry, smile, laugh and react to their environment - so it seems odd to look at a bab... more

18 Sep 2025

41 MINS

41:31

18 Sep 2025


#222

How AI could transform reading

If there's one thing AI has in common with all new technology, it's that a lot of people a... more

10 Sep 2025

28 MINS

28:52

10 Sep 2025


#221

Is it time to get rid of legal gender status?

Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this c... more

04 Sep 2025

35 MINS

35:51

04 Sep 2025