Topics

Each week, Real Talk Philosophy selects a new topic that is contentious, topical, and meaningful to explore with discussions, talks, games, music, art, panelist Q&As, and more.

  • The 1%

  • Abortion

  • Absurdism

  • Adoption

  • Alchemy

  • Alcohol

  • The Alt Right

  • Ancient Yogic Philosophy

  • Animal Testing

  • Antinatalism

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Aztec Philosophy

  • The Bhagavad Gita

  • Birth Control

  • Black Holes

  • Buddhism

  • Cancel Culture

  • Cannibalism

  • Capital Punishment

  • The Chakras

  • Circumcision and Genital Mutilation

  • Consciousness

  • Conspiracy Theories

  • Coronavirus

  • Corporal Punishment

  • Cryptocurrency

  • Cults

  • Cultural Appropriation

  • Death

  • Does God Exist?

  • Drag Performance

  • Dreams

  • Effective Altruism

  • The Ethics of Comedy

  • The Ethics of Pornography

  • The Ethics of Sex Work

  • The Ethics of Teaching English

  • Eugenics

  • Euthanasia

  • Existentialism

  • Facebook and Social Media

  • Feminism

  • Festival Culture

  • Fetishes

  • Free Will

  • Globalization

  • Greek Mythology

  • Gun Control

  • Hard Drugs: Criminalization vs. Legalization

  • Homelessness

  • Human Gene Editing

  • Hunting, Zoos, and Aquariums

  • Indigenous American Philosophy

  • Is Life a Computer Simulation?

  • Is Life a Game?

  • Islam

  • Masturbation

  • Menstruation

  • Meritocracy

  • Modern Debates in Yoga

  • Neuralink

  • Nihilism

  • Norse Mythology

  • The Patriarchy

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Political Correctness

  • Polyamory

  • Prisons

  • Psychedelics

  • The Psychological Differences Between Easterners and Westerners

  • The Psychological Differences Between Left and Right

  • The Rules of Dating, Sex, and Consent

  • Sexual Orientation: Nature or Nurture?

  • String Theory

  • Suicide

  • Time

  • Toxic Masculinity

  • Trans

  • Universal Basic Income

  • Vaccines

  • Veganism

  • Video Games

  • War

  • White Privilege