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Lou Marinoff
Philosopher, bestselling author, Plato Not Prozac, and Canadian table hockey champion.
Philosopher, bestselling author of Plato Not Prozac and Canadian table hockey champion, Marinoff is founder of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association.

Philosopher, bestselling author of Plato Not Prozac and Canadian table hockey champion, Marinoff is founder of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association.
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Brave New Horizon
Where will technology lead the human race?

The Immortal Now
Can philosophy teach us how to die?

Emperor's New Genes
Are genes not the blueprint for life we imagined?

What happens to our bodies when we die?
Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay

The Evolution of Desire
Do genetics explain all of human nature?

Defeating Aging
Do you want to live forever?

The New Bodies
Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs

Orgasmatron
What can MRI scans of brains in orgasm tell us?

After Darwin
Is the age of selfish gene theory over?

Are Doctors Bad For Us?
Medicine, trust, and power

The Illusion of Race
How do we move on from race?

After Evolution
Is culture beyond genetics?

Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?

The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history

Doctors and the Danger Industry
Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?

Life On The Edge
How can we halt society's existential crises?

Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?

Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution

Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?

The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?

Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry

A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?

The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?

Cyborg Future
Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body

Inside the Mind’s Eye

The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?

Documenting Death
Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti

Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?

Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science

Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism

Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men

How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture

Designing Life

How to Live Forever
A future without morality

Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?

Meat, Metal, Code

Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?

Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?

The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?

Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?

Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age

Extra-terrestrial life
Are we the sharpest cookie in the jar?

The virus vs lockdown
Will we be on the right side of history?

The origin of life
The mystery of life's beginning

The pattern seekers
Why can humans alone invent?

Gene Editing in the Wild
The ethics of CRISPR technology

Why Dawkins is wrong
An interview with the renowned biologist

Our saviour or our downfall
Does reliance on science doom us to a grisly fate?
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The morality of animals

The two ideas that divide us

Nature loves a hypocrite

Who is to blame for migrant deaths?

In defence of pessimism

Christmas traditions don't need religion

The Epicurean's guide to Christmas

How four women revolutionised ethics

Are mandatory vaccines justified?

Groundhog Day vs Nietzsche: Reliving Your Life

The Return of Meaning

The power of anxiety

Humour is no joke

Change Thyself: your personality is a moral issue

The rules of war are absurd, but necesssary

What Hobbes really thought about war

Why getting what you want won't make you happy

Moderating Twitter's Moderators

Truth is questionable, and so is honesty

Nietzsche: your conscience is no saint

5 philosophers on how to face death

Happiness as an act of resistance

The present is all there is to happiness

Paul Bloom: The Pleasure of Suffering

Pandemic prediction from Lucretius

Mapping morality: Peter Singer vs his critics

The danger of ethics without empathy

Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live

How effective altruism lost the plot

Pursuing happiness is a mistake