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Lectures

  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Ricoeurs “Memory, History, Forgetfullness” Collected podcasts. February 25, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative Collected Volume Three episodes February 20, 2026
  • https://pathways-with-joseph-campbell.simplecast.com/episodes/bonus-maya-and-the-mask-of-the-divine?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQCJxhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeOPKEAc9nuBogTZVU5yI0HGHzRRD33zHbtlNjooO455vlDRDxYWRi7zJ3uo4_aem_6Mxx0mZe0B1mcXzc5cZetA February 18, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative Collected Vol 2 February 16, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts Collected: Ricoeurs Time and Narrative Volume 1 February 14, 2026
  • The Dephic Podcasts Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth, Collected podcasts February 13, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts on Youtube February 8, 2026
  • Icarus, hubris and Transcendental Analogies February 2, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 10 Conclusion January 18, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology” Season 9 Episode 9 January 15, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 8 January 12, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 7 January 9, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology” Season 9 Episode 6 January 6, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 5 January 2, 2026
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 4 December 26, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James: Review of Campbells Occidental Mythology, Season 9 Episode 3 December 22, 2025
  • Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre December 12, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology”, Season 9 Episode 2 December 11, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R DJames, Review of Campbells “Occidental Mythology, Season 9 Episode 1 December 7, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Hero” writings: Conclusion season 8 episode 6 November 24, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James: Review of Campbells “Hero” writings Season 8 episode5 November 20, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Hero” writings:Season 8 Episode 4 November 17, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells “Hero” writings, Season 8 Episode 3 November 14, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells Hero Writings, Season 8 Episode 2 October 24, 2025
  • The Delphic podcasts Review of Campbells “Hero” writings, Season 8, Episode 1 October 18, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Philosophy and AI Season 7 Episode 4 October 17, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Philosophy and AI, Season 7 Episode 3 October 12, 2025
  • The Delphi Podcasts by Michael R D James Philosophy and AI: Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents, Season 7, Episode 2 October 10, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Philosophy and AI: Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents, Season 7 Episode 1 October 10, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts Freud and Philosophy, Season 6 Episode 4 October 8, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts Philosophy and Freud Sample Introduction October 7, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts: Philosophy and Freud: The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis: An Aristotelian and Kantan Critique: Extracts from Chapter One October 6, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells Inner Reaches of Outer Speech: Four Podcasts October 3, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Power of Myth” Concluding Episode 14 September 30, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbell’s “Power of Myth”: Episode 13 September 26, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James: Review of Campbells “Power of Myth” Episode 12 Birth of Civilisation, Mother of God, Eros and Amour September 23, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts Review of Campbells “Power of Myth” Episode 11 Mother Earth, Goddesses, The Quest and Logos September 21, 2025
  • Shakespeare and Philosophy (Forthcoming publication) Book Cover Suggestion September 20, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells “Power of myth”: Episode 10: Constellating images and The truth and rational orientation of Consciousness September 18, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Review of Campbells Power of Myth, Episode 9 September 15, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts Review of “The Power of Myth”, Episode 8 Silence, Sound, Matriarchial and Patriarchial Myths September 13, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts: Review of Campbells “Power of Myth”, Episode 7 Art, Cave paintings, Cathedrals, and the Shaman September 11, 2025
  • The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Campbells “Power of Myth”, Episode 6: Self Knowledge, black moments and the light of salvation September 8, 2025
  • Delphic Podcasts. Review of Joseph Campbells Power of Myth”. Episode 5 AI assisted Julian Hale September 5, 2025
  • Delphic podcast Episode 4 Review of Joseph Campbell’s “Power of Myth” August 26, 2025
  • Delphic Podcasts Review of Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth”: Episode 3: Consciousness, Perception and Merleau-Ponty. August 19, 2025
  • Delphic Podcasts Episode 2 : Review of Joseph Campbells “Power of myth” August 16, 2025
  • Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Episode 1 August 11, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbells’s “inner Reaches of Outer Space: Part Two August 5, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbells “Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as myth and as Religion: Part 1 July 24, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbells “Myth of Light: Eastern metaphors of the Eternal. Part 2 Pages 42-end July 13, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbell’s “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Up to Page 42) July 6, 2025
  • Martin on Guilt July 6, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbell’s “The Occult in Myth and Literature” June 26, 2025
  • Journal article: Academicus International Scientific Journal June 13, 2025
  • Storytel link for audio and e-books June 13, 2025
  • Freud and Philosophy: The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis (An Aristotleian and Kantian Critique) May 31, 2025
  • Feedspot number 9 Political Philosophy blogg May 30, 2025
  • Martin on Religion and Science May 29, 2025
  • Review of Joseph Campbell’s  Recorded Interviews: Philosophical Introduction May 16, 2025
  • Blog Statistics May 10 2025 May 10, 2025
  • Time is the a priori Form of internal intuition April 30, 2025
  • The Logos of Muthos April 8, 2025
  • On Taking Responsibility for a Life (Psuché) March 28, 2025
  • Spinoza and viewing existence sub specie aeternitatis March 23, 2025
  • Excerpt from my Forthcoming book on Shakespeare March 9, 2025
  • Philosophy and Shakespeare February 18, 2025
  • Feedspot award February 11, 2025
  • AI and the Teaching of History February 9, 2025
  • The Exeter Lectures Audiobook February 1, 2025
  • Brilliant Philosophical Analysis of why Tump won two elections. January 30, 2025
  • Freud-Book Poster January 30, 2025
  • Chatgpt versus Deepseek January 28, 2025
  • The Plight of the Poor: A Comparative Analysis from Socratic Athens, the Time of Christ, the Elizabethan Era, and the Kantian Enlightenment:–AN AI generated Essay Chat GPT January 26, 2025
  • AI generated image January 25, 2025
  • The World Explored the World Suffered January 17, 2025
  • Philosophical Modernism January 15, 2025
  • Moved up to number 48 of the best 90 academic Philosophy blogs. January 12, 2025
  • The World Explored, the World Suffered series 5. Audio book cover for the work “The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis: An Aristotelian and Kantian Critique” November 24, 2024
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  • Finished the first chapter of Shakespeare: An Aristotelian and Kantian reevaluation August 1, 2024
  • Commentary on Platos’ “The Laws”: Book 4 July 22, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s “The Laws”: Book 3(Part Two) July 9, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s dialogue, “The Laws” Book Three(Part one) June 29, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s “The Laws” Book 2 June 25, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s Dialogue “The Laws” Book 1 June 18, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Critical reevaluation: Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks May 7, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Critical reevaluation:Chapter 6 Freud and Political Philosophy (Analysis of Woodrow Wilson) March 24, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Critical Reevaluation: Chapter 5: Kant and Freud February 6, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Critical Reevaluation: Chapter 4: Freud and Aristotle…”…health is the logos and knowledge in the soul (psuché) January 20, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: a Hylomorphic and Kantian critical reevaluation: Chapter 3 Platonic Themes January 14, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Reevaluation: Chapter Two January 5, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian reevaluation: Chapter I October 31, 2023
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian reevaluation: Introduction October 10, 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents”: A Philosophical Essay : Introduction. July 29, 2023
  • The Philosophy of Death: Socrates, Aristotle, Fingarette, Kant, Wittgenstein July 11, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part 7: Why cant a computer act or Hunt: O Shaughnessy. July 3, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI: Part 6: “Machina”, The “new men” and the Age of Totalitarian Discontent. July 1, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI: Review of Weizenbaums “Computer Power and Human Reason” Part 5: Kant, Science, and the fallacy of anthromorphization June 27, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part 4: Review of Weizenbaum’s “Computer Power and Human Reason”: Power and Language June 25, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part Three: Review of “Weizenbaum’s “Computer Power…”(On Tools) June 24, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part Two: Review of “Computer Power and Human Reason” by J Weizenbaum(1976) June 21, 2023
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  • Review of Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception” Part 3 May 16, 2023
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  • Review of Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”–Part 2 April 27, 2023
  • Review of Merleau Ponty’s “Phenomeology of Perception”. Part 1 April 26, 2023
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  • Chatbot GBT: Benefit or Burden March 11, 2023
  • Chomsky and universal grammar March 5, 2023
  • Jordan Peterson and Philosophy:Review of a Youtube Interview. December 11, 2022
  • Mathematical Investigations: Kant and Wittgenstein December 5, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture: Unity of European Culture November 28, 2022
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  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” :”Regionalisation” and Satellite Cultures November 13, 2022
  • Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” –Class and the Elite: The Aristocrat and Cosmopolitan man November 12, 2022
  • Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture”: Part Two Culture and its Meaning November 10, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes towards the definition of Culture” Part 1 November 8, 2022
  • A review of Thomas Howards Youtube lecture on T S Eliots “Four Quartets”: Part 4– A Wittgensteinian commentary November 4, 2022
  • If music be the food of poetry, play on. November 2, 2022
  • A Review of the youtube lecture on Eliot’s “Four Quartets by Thomas Howard: Part Three –A Freudian Commentary November 1, 2022
  • Youtube review of Thomas Howards “Reader’s Guide to the Four Quartets”: Part Two: A Kantian commentary. October 30, 2022
  • A review of the Youtube lecture : “Readers Guide to Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: 1. Aristotelian interpretation of Eliot October 26, 2022
  • Du Chatelet and Kant: abstract for conference “Dynamics and Reason”, in honour of the work of Du Chatelet. October 19, 2022
  • Absent minded Philosophy October 16, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and narrative” Vol 3: Conclusion Essay 21 October 2, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 20 Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness. September 29, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3 : Essay 19 The Spirit of the Times and World History September 25, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 18 History and Fiction September 23, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 17 The Author, the Reader, and the Text. September 20, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 16 Historiography and the reality of the past. September 18, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 15–Fictional Time September 15, 2022
  • A Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative Vol 3: Essay 14 Historical Time September 11, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay no 13–Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger. August 28, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”:Vol 3: Essay no 12 Husserl and Kant. August 19, 2022
  • Essay 11: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol3: Time of the Soul vs Time of the World. August 9, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Volume 2: Tales about Time–Essay no 10 August 6, 2022
  • Review of Ricouer’s Volume 2 “Time and Narrative”: Essay 9 Games with Time. August 2, 2022
  • Essay 8 Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Linguistics and analytical structuralism July 28, 2022
  • Review of Vol 2 of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: The fate of narrative. July 26, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Essay 6 Historical intentionality July 22, 2022
  • Essay 5 Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” :Narrative and Causality July 17, 2022
  • Essay 4: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Explanations and Misunderstandings July 13, 2022
  • Essay 3: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Metaphorical action and Metaphorical Time. July 10, 2022
  • Essay 2 on Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol.1: Aristotle’s Poetics and Muthos June 29, 2022
  • Essay 1 on Ricoeur’s “Three volume series on “Time and Narrative” June 26, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part 8 Anguish and Primary Affirmation June 22, 2022

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