politics

Episode 162: Matter and Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (with Tuhin Bhattacharjee)

What can the Indian dualist philosophy Sāṃkhya teach us about matter and consciousness?

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Episode 161: Ethics, Democracy, and Phronesis (with Dimitris Vardoulakis)

The HBS hosts discuss what is lost in the critique of instrumental thinking with Dimitris Vardoulakis.

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Episode 160: Posthumanism

What are the limits of the “human”? And what comes after us?

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Episode 159: Nature

What do we mean when we say “Nature”? And what, if anything, is “natural”?

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Episode158: Does God Exist?

Are you there God? It’s us, Hotel Bar Sessions.

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Episode 157: The Ethics of Refusal (with Devonya Havis)

When is it right, or even necessary, to say “no”?

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Episode 156: Meat

Should we eat meat?

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Episode 155: Zionist ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian Question (with Zahi Zalloua)

What can Fanon and Nietzsche teach us about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis?

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Episode 154: Aristotle and Feminist Materialism, Troubled (with Emanuela Bianchi)

Philosophy has traditionally associated the feminine with matter, implying passivity. Why? And to what ends?

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Episode 152: Evidence

What counts as evidence? What makes it good or bad? How do we know?

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