The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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.

https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 1h8m. Bisher sind 614 Folge(n) erschienen. Alle 4 Tage erscheint eine Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 30 days 13 hours 26 minutes

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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


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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.


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   54m
 
 

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


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   53m
 
 

Mysteries of the mind


Do you understand your own mind? Does anybody?


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   53m
 
 

Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything


Exploring the big divide on the American left


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   49m
 
 

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?


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   53m
 
 

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.


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   51m
 
 

The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard


Philosopher Agnes Callard on the benefits of making your personal life public


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   52m
 
 

The chemistry of connection


Sean talks with a psychiatrist about how our brain chemistry — and psychedelics — can help take on the "loneliness epidemic"


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 2023-04-27  53m
 
 

What a slow civil war looks like


What if January 6th was only the beginning?


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 2023-04-24  56m