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Podcasts on Critical Thinking

  • Here are a few podcasts on language, critical thinking and philosophy.
  • We keep adding new ones.

Critical Thinking​

  • 🇩🇪 kritisches-denken-podcast.de
    • Over 100 episodes on critical thinking and science, and how it creates knowledge.
  • 🇬🇧 The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (Steven Novella)
    • A weekly "reality check" against pseudoscience and disinformation.
  • 🇬🇧 Rationally Speaking (Julia Galef)
    • Conversations at the border between reason and nonsense, science and pseudoscience.
  • 🇫🇷 Méta de Choc (Élisabeth Feytit)
    • Critical thinking applied to oneself: belief, knowledge and the mechanisms of persuasion.
  • 🇫🇷 Scepticisme scientifique (Jean-Michel Abrassart)
    • A long-running French podcast on zététique, pseudosciences and critical thinking.

Philosophy of Language​

  • 🇬🇧 Philosophy Bites (Nigel Warburton & David Edmonds)
    • Short interviews with leading philosophers, including on meaning, language and logic.
  • 🇫🇷 Les Chemins de la philosophie — France Culture
    • A daily, well-researched programme on philosophical topics, including the philosophy of language.

Language and Society​

  • 🇩🇪 Wortcast — der Podcast der GfdS — Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache
    • Current topics around language: language change, words of the year, the formal vs. informal "you".
  • 🇬🇧 Lingthusiasm (Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne)
    • "A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics" — well-grounded and entertaining on everyday language.
  • 🇫🇷 Parler comme jamais (Laélia Véron) — Binge Audio
    • Linguist Laélia Véron on language, power and societal debates around speech.