The Agony & the Ecstasy

Is pain a necessary part of human experience?

The Problem of Evil

Does 'evil' exist?

Morality of the Tribe

Should and can we treat all people equally?

The Lure of Lucifer

Why do we love Evil?

Our Sins and Our Selves

Should we embrace our inconsistency?

The Mystery of the Good

Is morality relative or absolute?

The Really Real

Is absolute right and wrong a fantasy?

The Good, The Bad, and the Controversial

Is morality simply prejudice?

Rethinking Feminism

Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

Being Human and Being Good

Is morality relative?

Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Rebecca Goldstein | Plato in the Age of Google

Is Religion Dangerous?

Faith - The Problem or The Solution

After Buddhism

What could secular Buddhism bring the West?

The Last Taboo

Paedophilia, innocence and morality

Doing Right and Feeling Good

Is morality about thinking or feeling?

Thinking Good and Doing Evil

Is belief in any morality dangerous?

Trouble with Heaven

Why does the dark and the dangerous attract us?

On Humans and Animals

Peter Singer and Mary Midgley on what's next for animal rights

Dancing with the Devil

Can and should art be moral? Our controversial panel confront the darkness.

Rethinking Science and Spirituality

Rupert Sheldrake | They complement each other

Can Animals Be Moral?

Reason and the Gods

What do secular and religious worldviews share?

New Gods

Do we need religion? And if so, why?

The Fountain

Morality and Mindfulness

Vishvapani Blomfield | Can meditation fix ethics?

How to See Things Clearly

Overcoming Wilful Blindness | Margaret Heffernan

The Death of God and the War On Terror

Secularism versus religious fundamentalism

Ethics, Darwin and Dante

The assumptions behind moral beliefs

Good and Evil Around the Globe

Is morality rooted in culture? | Joel Robbins

Belief and the Gods

Is the divine a fantasy?

The Myth of Being Happy

We should give up on the obsession with happiness

Science and Religion

Can science and religion coexist?

In Place of Prejudice

Can rationality provide a basis for morality?

Death and the Human Animal

Is the quest for immortality a fool's errand?

God is an Orgasm

Of Lies and Necessity

Is honesty a fantasy?

Return of the Pagans

Does paganism offer a new haven for spirituality?

Moral Animals and Our Place in the Universe

Are good and evil unique to humans?

The Point of It All

Where should we turn to find meaning?

The Age of Nothing

The consequences of the decline of faith

The Banality of Evil

Nature versus nurture

Life's Secret

Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness

Beyond Good and Evil II

Is morality instinctual?

True to Myself

Morality, virtues & consequences

A Tale of Love and Hate

Are love and hate inextricably linked?

Competition versus Cooperation

Can we survive and succed without competition?

Morality, Cruelty and Freedom

Attitudes towards animal suffering

In the Beginning was Nature

Spirtuality and the environment

Purity and Dirt

Uncovering the significance of cleanliness

How to be Agnostic

The Nature of Evil

Can art vanquish evil?

Critical Islam

Beyond Fundamentalist and Apologist Islams

Enhancing Morality

Awake in the Universe

Art's ability to raise us from slumbers

Happiness

Your Life in Your Hands

Is the sanctity of life an illusion?

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Morality in a globalised world

The Self and the Selfless

Does true altruism exist?

Pagan Gods

Is environmentalism a superstitious belief?

Ways to Truth

Is knowledge founded on tradition or creativity?

Rescuing Morality

A post-faith survival guide

Escaping The Moral Maze

Is morality a figleaf for prejudice?

A Touch of Evil

Is it good to be bad?

The Exceptional Species

From our earliest myths humankind has clung to the view that we are special: but are we?

Beyond Good and Evil

Do we live in a Nietzschean world?

The Good, the Bad and the Powerful

Manipulating Morality

Freedom, Victims, and Heroes

Taking ownership of the world

Buddhists in Suburbia

Bad to the Bone

Awake in the Universe (HTLGI 2010)

Keynote debate. What role do art and creativity play in making us alive?

Cycles of Wonder

Science and Religion

Love: All that matters

For the self, the other and life itself

Four Ways to Live Forever

Humanity Unbound

How science changes our nature and rights

How to Play God

What kind of deity do you want to be?

Mary-Jane Rubenstein | In-depth Interview

On the multiverse, pantheism, and beyond

Modern Crises and Ancient Gods

Will science or spirituality resolve the climate crisis?

Kate Kirkpatrick | In-depth Interview

On Simone de Beauvoir, existentialism, and beyond

The Hidden Science of Spirituality

Why meditation and prayer is good for you

Do we still need morality?

Is there an objective morality to guide us?

Susan Neiman | In-depth Interview

On Evil and its allure

Steven Pinker | In-depth Interview

On Human Nature, the Enlightenment and Beyond

Bart Streumer | In-depth Interview

On metaethics, error theory and beyond.

Being Bad To Do Good

Draconian measures the new moral norm

The Morality of Pandemic

What duty do we have to others during COVID-19?

Evil acts, good people

The problem of dirty hands

Moments of Discovery

How do we decide on a moral system?

Church, State and Nietzsche

Is the church inescapably political?

Ideas to live and die by

Which do we take seriously?

Living in the now

Spiritual practices and panpsychism

In Conversation with Michael Sandel

The Tyranny of Merit

Arc of life: Peter Singer

The biography of a world leading moral philosopher

In love with animals?

Can we care about animals if we eat them?

The empathy trap

Is empathy our best base for morality?

Preparing for Utopia

An interview with transhumanist Anders Sandberg

Beyond Us: Competition

Episode 2: Did we evolve to compete or cooperate?

The Church's decline

An Interview with Linda Woodhead

The corruption of science

An interview with Peter Atkins

The truth about lies

Does telling the truth still matter?

Ways to go beyond

Why spiritual journeys draw non-religious people

Nature's memory

The theory of Morphic Resonance

The precarious case for being good

Are we living in the long shadow of a dead God?

Humanity beyond nature

An interview with Raymond Tallis

Is morality a fashion statement?

Is morality fashionable?

Being seen to be good

Probing the moral maze of public morality

The hypocrisy of the good

Do strict moral codes prevent immoral acts?

Moral truths and moral tyrannies

Can we claim there exists a universal moral code?

The search for meaning

Does philosophy give meaning to our life?

Virtue and vice

Is our belief in morality a dangerous fantasy?

New gods and lost rituals

Should religion play a role in modern life?

Atheism revisited

Changing beliefs in the Western world

Fantasy and the void

Will science ever replace religion?

If it doesn't kill you

Do we need suffering to lead a meaningful life?

The oldest gods

Should we return to the gods of nature?

Gods, worlds and monsters

The threats of pantheism

Beyond innocence and guilt

Is moral responsibility a mere illusion?

Science, religion and the quest for reason

An interview with Alister McGrath

The knowledge delusion

Should we give up on the idea of certainty?

Should we care for ants?

Moral limits in the contemporary world

The civilisation trap

Did hunter-gatherers have a better life?

Kafka vs Camus

Can we change the world?

How to use philosophy for a better life

The path towards more enlightened societies

Moral facts and moral fantasy

Is our search for an objective morality misguided?

The good and the evil

Can we make ultimate moral judgements?

Humans are not morally superior

Veganism for Philosophers

The dream of progress

Why do we need technological progress?

Finding transcendence in a secular world

Spirituality amid secularism

The evolution of war

Are we made to go to war?

How to see the world through Kafka's eyes

Unmasking the human condition

The good, the bad, and the ignored

The fantasy of agency

Virtue ethics and the mob

Can morality matter and be private?

Surplus happiness

The false joy of excess

Necessity and lies

Is it ever right to lie? Is honesty ever wrong?

The end of good and evil

Can humans ever be inherently good or evil?

Narcissism and self-love

Simon Blackburn on the dangers of self-love

The shadow of spirituality

Is New Age spirituality leading us into a dark age?