Possibility Tagged Episodes

Impossible Worlds

November 2, 2025

Philosophers often speculate about possible worlds: ways that things could be. Some of them also…

Penrose stairs impossible world lithograph; surreal architecture with figures.

Regulating Bodies

February 8, 2015

Most countries allow their citizens to smoke cigarettes, get intoxicated, and eat unhealthy food –…

Four backscatter X-ray scans showing different body postures. Regulating bodies.

What Might Have Been

August 24, 2014

When we make claims about things that could have been—what philosophers call counterfactual statements—we are,…

Astronaut on moon with Nazi flag; "What Might Have Been

Predicting the Future

August 23, 2009

People who predict the future well are sometimes said to be psychic. But we all…

Man in turban holding a blank card, predicting the future

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