How many philosophy podcasts are there?
At least 60
Over 80
Over 100 and they take a variety of forms.
Andrew Lavin (CSU Chico, Butte College, Feather River College), himself the host of the podcast Reductio, compiled a list of them, below:
- 5 Questions (interviews about philosophers themselves w/ Kieran Setiya)
- 80,000 Hours (interviews & conversations w/ Rob Wiblin, Arden Kohler & Ben Todd)
- After Dinner Conversation (philosophical stories & discussion w/ Kolby Granville)
- Alan White’s Podcast (excerpts from Alan White’s work on a philosophical theory of everything & other topics)
- Always Already (discussions & interviews w/ B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, & James Padilioni, Jr.)
- Annares Project for Alternative Futures (interviews & conversations w/Joseph Orosco)
- Armchair Opinions (interviews w/ James Brown, Carl Messenger, & Alex Impey)
- Bad Philosophy (conversations w/ Stephen Torrence & Kevin Saunders)
- The Big Idea (interviews w/ David Edmonds)
- Black Mirror Reflections (conversations w/ Leigh M. Johnson & guests)
- Brain in a Vat (interviews w/ Jason Werbeloff & Mark Oppenheimer)
- Can You Phil It? (interdisciplinary philosophical explorations w/ Jeanne Proust)
- Common Room Philosophy (conversations w/ Warwick Philosophy Department)
- Condensed Matter (monologues on research in metaphysics & philosophy of science w/ Sam Kimpton-Nye)
- Consciousness Live! (interviews w/ Richard Brown)
- Conversations from the Center (conversations hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh)
- Cows in the Field (discussions w/Justin Khoo)
- Les Chemins de la philosophie (interviews, discussions w/ Adèle Van Reeth (in French))
- The Dawdler’s Philosophy (discussions w/ Harland Grant & RTP McKenna)
- Dialexicon (guest philosophers discuss their work and current issues with Saurish Srivastava)
- Dilemma (interviews, discussions w/ Jay Shapiro)
- The Dissenter (interviews w/ Ricardo Lopes)
- Doing Philosophy (conversations between junior & senior philosophers, hosted by Tom Kaspers)
- El barril de Diógenes (conversation about great philosophical works w/ different professors of the Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
- Elucidations (interviews w/ Matt Teichman et al.)
- Embrace the Void (conversations w/ Aaron Rabinowitz)
- Ethical Theory Review (interviews w/ Bradford Cokelet)
- Ethics and Education (interviews w/ Center for Ethics and Education, Carrie Welsh)
- Ethics in Action (conversations w/ Nir Eisikovits)
- Examining Ethics (interviews w/ Christiane Wisehart & Eleanor Price)
- Filosofisk (conversations w/ Stina Björkholm, Olle Risberg, Nils Sylvan & guests — in Swedish)
- Five Minute Philosophy (monologues w/Lottie Pike)
- For The Love of Sophia! (conversations with Giuseppe Rotolo & Anthony Celi)
- Forum for Philosophy Podcast (monologues)
- Free Will Matters (edited interlaced interviews w/ Santiago Amaya)
- The Free Will Show (interviews w/ Taylor Cyr & Matt Flummer)
- Futuremakers (conversations w/ Peter Millican)
- Generous Questions (interviews w/ Joe Morrison)
- Getting Ethics to Work (interviews & discussion w/ Andy Cullison & Kate Berry
- Hi-Phi Nation (edited narratives w/ Barry Lam)
- The History of Indian and Africana Philosophy (mix of monologues & interviews w/ Peter Adamson)
- The History of Philosophy without any Gaps (mix of monologues & interviews w/ Peter Adamson)
- Hotel Bar Podcast (conversations w/ Leigh Johnson, Richard Lee, Charles Peterson, & others)
- Ideas Matter (conversations w/ Louis Devine and Alex B)
- In Our Time (conversations & interviews w/ Melvyn Bragg)
- I Think Therefore I Fan (conversation & interviews w/ Rachel Robison-Greene & Richard Greene)
- Journal Entries (interviews w/ Wesley Buckwalter)
- Larger, Freer, More Loving (interviews & conversations w/ Matt LaVine & Dwight K. Lewis Jr.)
- Little Bad Thing (narrative & discussion w/ Eleanor Gordon-Smith)
- London Philosophy Talk (interviews w/ Florian Steinberger)
- The Meaning of… (conversations w/ Tim Dean & Monty Badami)
- Micro-Digressions: A Philosophy Podcast (conversations w/ Spencer Case)
- Mind Chat (interviews by Philip Goff & Keith Frankish)
- The Morality of Everyday Things (discussion w/ Anthony Collias & Jacob Wedderburn-Day)
- Natural Philosophers (interview w/ Siddharth Krishnan)
- New Books in Philosophy (interviews w/ Carrie Figdor, Alexus McLeod, Marshall Poe, & Robert Talisse)
- New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (interviews w/ various interviewers)
- The New Thinkery (conversations w/ Gregory McBrayer, Alex Priou, & David Bahr)
- Non sequitur (monologues w/ Diego Castro)
- Nous (interviews w/ Ilan Goodman)
- Open Questions (interviews w/ Jeremy Davis)
- Out of the Tower (interviews w/ Peter O’Meara)
- Out of the Vat (interviews w/ LSE Philosophy department)
- Overthink (conversations, interviews w/ Ellie Anderson & David M. Peña-Guzmán)
- Pandemic Ethics (interview w/ Joshua Preiss)
- The Panpsycast (conversations w/ Jack Symes, Gregory Miller, Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, et al.)
- Partially Examined Life (“reading group” discussions w/ Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, & Dylan Casey)
- The Philosopher and the News (interviews w/ Alexis Papazoglou)
- The Philosopher’s Guide to Conspiracy (conversations & interviews w/ M R. X. Dentith & Josh Addison)
- Philosophers in Space (conversations about philosophy & movies/TV w/ Aaron Rabinowitz & Thomas Smith)
- Philosopher’s Nest (interviews w/ philosophy PhD students by Kyle van Oosterum and Lewis Williams)
- Philosophers On Medicine (interviews w/ Jonathan Fuller)
- The Philosopher’s Zone (interviews w/ David Rutledge (ABC Radio))
- Philosophical Disquisitions (interviews w/ John Danaher)
- Philosophical Trials (interviews w/ Tedy Nenu)
- The Philosophists (conversations and interviews w/ Declan McGrath and Simon Robertson)
- Philosophize This (monologues w/ Stephen West)
- Philosophy 24/7 (interviews w/ David Edmonds)
- Philosophy and Film (interview/discussion with Joe Saunders, Hyde Park Picture House)
- Philosophy Bakes Bread (interviews w/ Eric Thomas Weber & Anthony Cashio)
- Philosophy Bites (short interviews w/ David Edmonds & Nigel Warburton)
- Philosophy for Our Times (conversations w/ iai Podcasts)
- Philosophy In Film (conversations w/ Chris McTavish & Alain Beauclair)
- Philosophy Takes on the News (conversations w/Simon Kirchin and a few different philosophers each episode)
- Philosophy Talk (conversations w/ Stanford Faculty incl. John Perry, formerly Ken Taylor, Ray Briggs, Debra Satz, Josh Landy, et al.)
- Philosophy? WTF?? (conversations w/ Danny O’Donnell & Michael Alsford)
- Plato’s Cave (interviews w/ Jordan Myers)
- Plato’s Pod (discussions of works by Plato w/ James Myers)
- A Pod Called Quest (conversation with Derrick Darby & Christian Davenport)
- Political Philosophy Podcast (interviews w/ Tobias Buckle)
- Premise (interviews w/ Angelos Sofocleous)
- Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (lectures)
- Reductio (edited narratives w/ Andrew Lavin)
- Sacred and Profane Love (interviews w/ Jennifer Frey)
- SCI PHI (interviews w/ Nick Zautra)
- Searching for It (Monologue & Interview w/ Lewis Williams)
- She Speaks (interviews w/ Saba Fatima)
- Short and Curly (ethics podcast for kids w/ ABC Radio)
- Sophia (interviews w/ Dan Kaufman)
- The Stoa (interviews & discussions w/ Peter Limberg)
- Stoic Meditations (monologues w/ Massimo Pigliucci)
- Sutras and Stuff (monologues & interviews w/ Malcolm Keating)
- Thinking Hard & Slow (conversations, talks, etc. from the Royal Institute for Philosophy)
- Thinking Out Loud (interviews w/ Katrien Devolder)
- This Is the Way (w/ Richard Kim and Justin Tiwald)
- Unbound (interviews w/ and by NSSR Philosophy Department)
- Unmute (interviews w/ Myisha Cherry)
- Upon Reflection (monologues w/ Nick Byrd)
- Very Bad Wizards (conversations w/ Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro)
- What’s Left of Philosophy? (discussion w/ Gil Morejón, Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, & William Paris
- Why? Philosophical Discussions about Everyday Life (discussions w/ Jack Russell Weinsstein)
- Why Theory (conversations w/ Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley)
- Wisdom at Work (interviews w/ David E. Storey)
Dr. Lavin knows that he may have missed some, so podcasters are encouraged to e-mail him at [email protected] to join the list, and we’ll update it. Feel free, as well, to mention any additions to the list in the comments, including hosts’ names and the kind of podcast it is.
(Revisions will be made to the list on an ongoing basis, typically without a major announcement of an update.)
See also Kelly Truelove’s list of philosophy and ideas podcasts, philosophy podcasters on Twitter and his TrueSciPhi radio (an internet radio station streaming participating philosophy & ideas podcasts).
There’s the Always Already podcast: https://alwaysalreadypodcast.wordpress.com
Feeling quite philosophical here, but what counts as a “podcast”? Do youtube channels count?
Podcasts are what appear on podcasting platforms or what are played through podcasting players and apps. How’s that for a definition?
Podcasts initially tended to be audio only, but now there are podcasts that are just the audio part of video programs (some of which are called, oh no, “video podcasts”) that appear on YouTube (I believe that some apps and podcast platforms will automatically extract the audio part for you if you want to make it available on podcast players and apps).
Unless there are objections, I think for the purposes of this list we should reserve “podcast” for programs that are available as audio content off of YouTube (they may also have video content on YouTube, but the audio side should be available off of YouTube). The reason for this is that unless one pays for YouTube, on a mobile device, the YouTube app must be open and in the foreground for the content to play. This is not only annoying, but seems to me to go against the spirit of podcasting in a way I am having trouble articulating at the moment, perhaps because I haven’t yet had enough coffee today.
Not strictly speaking a philosophy podcast but Sean Carroll’s _Mindscape_ has featured conversations with many philosophers and regularly touch on philosophical questions even with non-philosophers.
I’d like to draw attention to the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy podcast. The podcasts are student driven and the interviews by graduate students with experts on women philosophers in the history of philosophy promote further inquiry. https://www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html or https://soundcloud.com/user-312950500-596028810. There are another set of episodes currently in the works that will move beyond Europe and the early modern period.
Another addition: The 80,000 hours podcast with Rob Wiblin (and Arden Kohler and Ben Todd):
https://80000hours.org/podcast/?gclid=CjwKCAiA2O39BRBjEiwApB2IkphkGs-3URBGcltinqTGqpfFkIDyL9CfOxzMBHNlGiJkLyjq5K8ZqBoCVYgQAvD_BwE
In addition to the excellent New Books in Philosophy, other hosts on the New Books network interview authors about philosophy books. I don’t know how many other hosts on other channels are philosophers, apart from myself, but you can find interviews with philosophers about their work on a range of channels there, including New Books in Language, South Asian Studies, Hindu Studies, Buddhist Studies, East Asian Studies, Intellectual History… and more. Sometimes they’re cross-listed to Philosophy, sometimes not, so it’s worth keeping an eye out. Just use the “search” function: https://newbooksnetwork.com/search?q=philosophy
BBC’s In Our Time also regularly has episodes on philosophy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr
I know that the list is meant to be for English speakers but it’s worth noting that the most downloaded/listened to philosophy podcast in the world is very probably the podcastable version of the French daily radio show « Les Chemins de la philosophie » which is extremely popular in France including with non academics.
There’s also the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures podcast (interviews and conversations with Joseph Orosco): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5te1Ae3kvJ7lhaOKcHO7kQ?view_as=subscriber
Philosophy in Film (conversation w/ Alain Beauclair & Chris McTavish)
https://open.spotify.com/show/0xMgPSeoPySg0NmdMgCPd2
Philosophy Podcasters should join our Facebook group “Philosocasters”, where we’ve got a bit of a network going. Reserved for podcast producers, though.
Another good source of philosophy audio used to be courses on iTunes U.
iTunes U is apparently now dead, along with the searchability it provided. However, some of the courses are still up there (for now?). The search terms that one would assume to use don’t help much. “Oxford philosophy” is probably the most useful search. The course on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson) is still there and is enjoyable.
Anyone know if all that audio went somewhere searchable?
I have about 50 philosophy courses from old downloads. If anyone is interested, I can compile a list and would be happy to dump them in a dropbox somewhere.
I also recently started a philosophy podcast called ‘Five Minute Philosophy’! https://anchor.fm/lottie-pike0
Why Theory? is another.
Another great philosophy podcast is “I Think Therefore I Fan” by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene.
Natural Philosophers with Siddharth Krishnan
https://open.spotify.com/show/1BUSFwGYmgDNwLdc8ywOPa
SCI PHI with Nick Zautra
https://open.spotify.com/show/7MlhBDBTz4yPaEkU9bi5XU
Katrien Devolder also has a podcast: Thinking Out Loud https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/id1509190881 which features interviews with other philosophers
Spencer Case has a podcast. https://www.google.com/search?q=spencer+case+micro-digressions
Matthew Yglesias is not a philosopher, but he has a philosophy degree and it sometimes shows, and hosts a podcast called The Weeds. https://www.vox.com/the-weeds
Very cool to see consciousness live on the list! The url seems to go to Nick Byrd’s podcast though…here is the one for consciousness live: https://onemorebrown.com/consciousness-live/
@ Richard Brown: whatever happened to ‘Space Time Mind’??
Slice of Phi is a podcast contending with the philosophy we find in our daily lives, specifically with pop culture and current events. It tries to highlight to people who aren’t in the field that philosophy is accessible and can be found everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2FRnnpxvvVxXsXTpClMU3A
Dan Kaufman’s Sophia Podcast
https://meaningoflife.tv/programs/sophia
Sam Harris’s Making Sense (formerly Waking Up) podcast can get pretty philosophical depending on who the guest is.
Wanted to share my own Podcast, launched just two days ago, called Pandemic Ethics. On the podcast I discuss the defining ethical challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic with experts in philosophy, health, law, economics, public policy, and beyond. On the first episode, Jonathan Wolff and I talk about how ethics can inform public policy (and how it often fails to do so) and what we owe to those who take on additional risk to provide essential services during the pandemic. More at https://pandemic-ethics.com
Derrick Darby and Christian Davenport have an excellent podcast (with an excellent name): A Pod Called Quest. Available here: https://doingtheknowledge.weebly.com/
There is also I think Therefore I fan that brings together philosophy and popular culture. https://ithinkthereforeifan.com/
London Philosophy Talk with Florian Steinberger
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/london-philosophy-talk/id1530404932
Students from Glasgow started one over the summer: https://www.thoughtsuofg.com/episodes/
I also love ‘Making Sense of Chaos’ – the only podcast I know on death. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/making-sense-of-chaos/id1509171865
This is a wonderful list, loads of great things to listen to here, but you missed us! After Dinner Conversation http://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/podcastlinks
Thanks, Kolby. I’ve added After Dinner Conversation to the list.
Another addition: The Ethicist’s Corner Podcast. Available at: https://www.cs.csubak.edu/~kie/the-ethicists-corner/
An interesting new one is “Pronoia Philosophy”
https://open.spotify.com/show/3ssqlJEq0RKObWJ5cWMFEY