You have not always had a sense of self and other: you had to develop it during childhood. It is not a given, but a construct.

This also means you can see beyond it and realise it is not the whole story.

This is an extract from my episode on Wednesday 18th, "Do Other People Exist?"

We tend to assume that other people are separate from us and have their own, independent experiences.

Except these are highly questionable assumptions that we will begin to see through in this snippet from my last full episode "Do Other People Exist?

We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end all?

Do other people exist? My conclusion: well... kind of.

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I propose that the materialistic paradigm is deeply flawed.

While it is extremely useful and explanatory, it is underpinned by some highly questionable assumptions.

In this snippet from last week's episode Is The World Physical?, we address those assumptions.

There are very good reasons why materialism is the standard philosophical paradigm in the modern world, and here I outline them in a practical way.

There are three simple, essential critiques of materialism that seriously jeopardise its legitimacy.

This is a snippet from yesterday's episode, Is The World Physical?

There's no shortage of big questions this month, and today we discuss whether the world is physical or not.

This is part of my February philosophy series in which I aim not to promote a creed or doctrine but to honestly explore and inquire into these questions and encourage this in you.

This is a snippet from last week's episode on Does An External World Exist?

In this part, we cover naive realism, assumption v reality, and why naive realism is an assumption.