Philosophy Everyday

Masud Gaziyev
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  1. 13 hr ago

    Does God Exist? Wrong Question | Simon Critchley

    Simon Critchley is a British philosopher, author, and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary philosophy and continental philosophy, his work spans ethics, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, religion, tragedy, death, football (soccer), and the role of philosophy in everyday life. He has written more than twenty books, including The Book of Dead Philosophers, What We Think About When We Think About Soccer, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us, Mysticism, and Heidegger Thinking: Being and Time Explained. Critchley is known for making complex philosophical ideas accessible, playful, provocative, and relevant beyond academic philosophy. In this conversation, Simon Critchley explores what mysticism actually means, why modern philosophy has become too serious, and whether mystical experience can exist outside organized religion. We discuss Christian mysticism, incarnation, religious belief, miracles, Martin Luther and the Reformation, Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity, the Übermensch, Kierkegaard, Spinoza’s pantheism, free will, determinism, and why philosophy can offer comfort without providing simple answers. We also examine football (soccer) as a modern religion filled with rituals, gods, collective ecstasy, corruption, tragedy, comedy, suffering, and hope. Finally, we discuss the fear of death, whether philosophy can teach us how to die, technological immortality and the longevity movement, David Hume, professional philosophers, Heidegger’s Being and Time, and why philosophy should remain playful, open, and connected to life.

  2. 22 Jun

    600 Years Before Descartes: Ibn Sina’s Flying Man | Peter Adamson

    Peter Adamson is Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich and the host of the widely respected podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. He is one of the leading scholars working on the history of philosophy across the Islamic world, late antiquity, medieval philosophy, Greek philosophy, Arabic philosophy, and the broader global history of ideas. In this episode, we discuss Ibn Sina’s Flying Man thought experiment, the mind-body problem, the soul, the self, and whether the mind can exist without the body. We also explore Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, Ibn Rushd, also known as Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Aristotle, Plato, falsafa, kalam, Islamic philosophy, philosophy in the Islamic world, Arabic philosophy, the Greek-Arabic translation movement, the Latin translation movement, Maimonides, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Descartes, the Islamic Golden Age, the Abbasid world, Byzantium, Syriac translators, madrasas, commentary traditions, the Mongol invasions, the myth that Al-Ghazali killed philosophy, and why philosophy in the Islamic world was far more original, diverse, and influential than many standard histories suggest.

  3. 15 Jun

    Mind May Be Older Than the Brain | Michael Levin on Life and Intelligence

    Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University whose work sits at the intersection of biology, bioelectricity, artificial life, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. He is known for his research on how cells communicate, make decisions, build bodies, repair tissues, and form collective intelligence through bioelectric signals. His work on Xenobots and Anthrobots has opened new questions about living robots, synthetic life forms, biological machines, morphogenesis, basal cognition, cellular intelligence, regeneration, cancer, aging, and the nature of mind beyond the brain. In this conversation, Michael Levin and I explore whether mind and intelligence are binary or exist on a continuum, why cognition may be much older than brains, and how systems from cells to humans can pursue goals in different ways. We discuss the TAME framework, the spectrum of persuadability, cognitive light cones, bioelectricity, gap junctions, multicellular intelligence, Xenobots, Anthrobots, kinematic self-replication, neural wound healing, emergence, physicalism, mathematics, Platonic space, algorithms, bubble sort, Turing machines, evolution, human creativity, artificial intelligence, regenerative medicine, and the future of biology. This episode is for anyone interested in philosophy, consciousness, mind, intelligence, synthetic biology, developmental biology, AI, complex systems, evolution, and the deeper question of what it means for matter to become alive, intelligent, or aware.

  4. 19 May

    Your Best Values Are Status Games in Disguise | David Pinsof on Human Nature

    David Pinsof is an evolutionary psychologist, writer, and co-creator of Cards Against Humanity. He is the author of the substack "Everything Is Bullsh*t", where he examines self-deception, social status, morality, humor, and the hidden motives behind human behavior through the lens of evolutionary psychology. In this conversation, we discuss how self-deception stabilizes status games, why people pretend not to care about status, whether happiness is really the goal of life, why utilitarianism may misunderstand human nature, how charisma works, why deception can sometimes benefit the deceived, what ancient Cynicism reveals about status, and why laughter may have evolved as a way to signal that a social “mix-up” should not be taken seriously.

  5. 29 Apr

    Will AI Make You Smarter or Dumber? | William B. Irvine on Thinking in the Age of AI

    William B. Irvine is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Wright State University, best known for his work on Stoicism and practical philosophy. His books include A Guide to the Good Life, which helped popularize modern Stoicism, and his most recent work, How to Think More and Better: Being Reasonable in an Unreasonable World (2024), where he explores evidence-based reasoning, cognitive biases, and the challenges of thinking clearly in the modern information environment. In this conversation, we discuss why many people choose the “easy way” of thinking by relying on others instead of engaging in effortful reasoning, and how this tendency is amplified by social media and AI. We explore concepts such as evidence-based reasoning, confirmation bias, and the distinction between “feelers” and “thinkers.” The discussion also covers the erosion of trust in evidence in the age of AI-generated content, and how emerging technologies may both improve and distort our ability to think clearly.

  6. 10 Apr

    Why Happiness Is Not Enough | Rebecca Goldstein on Mattering

    Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher/novelist who brings serious philosophical ideas to the world of popular discussion. A trained analytic philosopher, with an interest in philosophers such as Spinoza, Plato, and Aristotle; her writing takes up many of the most ancient of questions about human existence from a contemporary perspective. She recently developed the concept of "the mattering instinct" (which represents the core impulse or drive of humans to believe their lives have importance). Here, we talk about why being happy isn't the most important thing in the world and how people are actually motivated by the desire to be meaningful. Here we also examine how we create our own sense of meaning through what Goldstein refers to as 'mattering projects', why modern life makes creating this kind of meaning difficult and how the loss of traditional forms of meaning (such as religious systems) has moved responsibility for developing a sense of personal meaning to the individual. Along the way we will reference Aristotle's concept of flourishing, Spinoza's view of living with purpose, the distinction between information and knowledge and what does it mean to lead a life worthy of consideration.

  7. 2 Apr

    The Big Bang May Not Be the Beginning | Dr. Niayesh Afshordi on Time and Nothingness

    Dr. Niayesh Afshordi is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Waterloo, known for his work on cosmology, quantum gravity, and the fundamental nature of the universe. His research explores some of the deepest questions in physics, including the origin of the Big Bang, the nature of time, and the limits of our current theories. He is also the co-author of The Battle of the Big Bang, where he examines competing models of the early universe and what they reveal about reality. In this episode, we explore whether the Big Bang truly marks the beginning of the universe or simply the point where our current equations break down. We discuss the meaning of singularities, the possibility of something existing before the Big Bang, and whether the universe could emerge from “nothing.” The conversation also dives into quantum mechanics, the challenge of unifying it with gravity, the role of inflationary models, and why time itself may not be fundamental.

  8. 26 Mar

    What Happens When Death Loses Meaning? | Robert P. Harrison on Modern Life & Mortality

    Robert Pogue Harrison is a Professor of Italian and French Literature at Stanford University and a leading scholar in Philosophy, Literature, Intellectual History. He has written many important books on topics such as Death and Youth, which include: The Dominion of the Dead; Juvenescence. Additionally, he hosts the popular podcast "Entitled Opinions" in which he discusses big picture issues of Human Existence, Culture and Meaning. In this conversation, we examine the reason for the rising discomfort in modern society regarding Death and what that may say about how we perceive meaningfulness. We compare the concepts of Dying vs. Perishing; and examine the concept of a "Secular After Life." We also look at how other cultures in the past developed their social structures based upon common mortality. The conversation also moves into technology, examining whether AI is reshaping our relationship with thinking, memory, and human connection, and what might be lost when thinking is outsourced. Throughout, we return to a central question: what happens to life when death is no longer understood as something that gives it structure and meaning?

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  • Creator
    Masud Gaziyev
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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