The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 32 days 9 hours 36 minutes
Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
How 20th-century philosopher Simone Weil built a legacy of caring for others.
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"