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An 'informal and informative' philosophy podcast inspiring and supporting students, teachers, academics and free-thinkers worldwide. All episodes are available at www.thepanpsycast.com.
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April 20, 2025
<p class="">Food is one of the most universal and essential parts of human life. From gourmet steaks to the everyday, humble, packet of crisps, food consumption is everywhere. But what do we actually know about how our food is grown? How is it processed? And how does it ends up on our supermarket shelves or in our restaurants and takeaways? While we may look back and think traditional food customs are more often in harmony with the natural environment, most of us today rely on a complex global food web of production, distribution, consumption and disposal. But how does it work, and what can philosophy say about food?</p> <p class="">Joining our discussion on food philosophy today is philosopher Julian Baggini. Baggini is an expert in popular philosophy with Sunday Times best-selling books such as How the World Thinks, How to Think Like a Philosopher and The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. He has served as the academic director of the Royal Institute of philosophy and is a member of the Food Ethics Council. He has written for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, and Prospect Magazine, as well as a plethora of academic journals and think tanks.</p> <p class="">In his wide-ranging and definitive new book, How the World Eats, Baggini argues that the need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. Baggini delves into the best and worst food practises around the world in a huge array of different societies, past and present-exploring cutting edge technologies, the ethics and health of ultra processed food and the effectiveness of our food governance. His goal: to extract a food philosophy of essential principles, on which to build a food system fit for the 21st century and beyond. What is that food philosophy? Let's tuck in, and find out.</p> <p class=""><strong>Links</strong></p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.julianbaggini.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Julian Baggini, Website</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Eats-Global-Philosophy/dp/1783788569/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julian Baggini, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy</a></p>
April 6, 2025
<p class="">Much of ethics is relational: it’s about how we treat other people, the world around us, and how those relationships shape who we become. In philosophy, this often gets formalised as a set of virtues to cultivate, duties to obey, or harms to avoid. But today, we rarely talk about sins – let alone the seven deadly sins.</p> <p class="">Historically rooted in the Christian tradition – pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth – have been understood not just as personal failings. They were taken seriously because they obscured what it meant to flourish: that is, to be fully alive. They are, fundamentally, habits of being that corrode our ability to love. So, what might we learn today from the seven deadly sins? How can these ancient categories illuminate our lives, in a world marked by disconnection and distraction?</p> <p class="">In this episode, we’ll be speaking about the seven sins with Elizabeth Oldfield. Elizabeth is a writer, speaker, host of The Sacred podcast, and the former director of Theos Think Tank. In her recent book Fully Alive, she revives the seven deadly sins – not as a tool for moral condemnation, but as a lens through which to examine our practices and principles.</p> <p class="">We’ll be talking with Elizabeth about how sin, properly understood, can help us confront the crisis of meaning and the collapse of community. We’ll also explore her Christian vision of moral transformation and why it’s vital to believers and non-believers alike.</p> <p class=""><strong>Links</strong></p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Oldfield, Website</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fully-Alive-searching-twenty-first-Turbulent/dp/1399810766" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Oldfield, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Evans on Psychedelics</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dont-talk-about-politics-9781399413923/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Stein Lubrano, Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds</a></p>
March 23, 2025
<p class="">Much of ethics is relational: it’s about how we treat other people, the world around us, and how those relationships shape who we become. In philosophy, this often gets formalised as a set of virtues to cultivate, duties to obey, or harms to avoid. But today, we rarely talk about sins – let alone the seven deadly sins.</p> <p class="">Historically rooted in the Christian tradition – pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth – have been understood not just as personal failings. They were taken seriously because they obscured what it meant to flourish: that is, to be fully alive. They are, fundamentally, habits of being that corrode our ability to love. So, what might we learn today from the seven deadly sins? How can these ancient categories illuminate our lives, in a world marked by disconnection and distraction?</p> <p class="">In this episode, we’ll be speaking about the seven sins with Elizabeth Oldfield. Elizabeth is a writer, speaker, host of The Sacred podcast, and the former director of Theos Think Tank. In her recent book Fully Alive, she revives the seven deadly sins – not as a tool for moral condemnation, but as a lens through which to examine our practices and principles.</p> <p class="">We’ll be talking with Elizabeth about how sin, properly understood, can help us confront the crisis of meaning and the collapse of community. We’ll also explore her Christian vision of moral transformation and why it’s vital to believers and non-believers alike.</p> <p class=""><strong>Links</strong></p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Oldfield, Website</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fully-Alive-searching-twenty-first-Turbulent/dp/1399810766" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Oldfield, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Evans on Psychedelics</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dont-talk-about-politics-9781399413923/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Stein Lubrano, Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds</a></p>
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