The Gray Area with host Sean Illing is a philosophical take on culture, politics, and everything in between. We don’t pretend to have the answers, but we do offer a space for real dialogue. Resist certainty, embrace ambiguity, and get some cool takes on a very hot world. Formerly the Vox Conversations podcast. New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 30 days 13 hours 26 minutes
Peter Singer on his ethical legacy
The world's most famous utilitarian talks about the state of animal liberation and effective altruism — two movements he helped found
Why the poor in America stay poor
We’ve built a society that shields us from a lot of the cruelties we participate in. Here’s what we can do to change that.
The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
Revisiting the German thinker whose narrative of the origin of capitalism explains some of the weird ways we think about jobs
Being human in the age of AI
As machines start to get more intelligent, do we need to rethink what it means to be human?
A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
Justin Smith-Ruiu's experimentation with psychedelic drugs led him to fundamentally reevaluate his understanding of time, death, his job — and the nature of reality.
The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
Philosopher Agnes Callard on the benefits of making your personal life public
The chemistry of connection
Sean talks with a psychiatrist about how our brain chemistry — and psychedelics — can help take on the "loneliness epidemic"