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Philosophy Bites: The First 25 Episodes

The podcast Philosophy Bites has now reached its 25th episode and is on a roll...

1. Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

2. Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life

3. Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

4. John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

5. Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

6. Barry Smith on Wine

7. Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

8. Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

9. Edward Craig on What is Philosophy?

10. Roger Crisp on Mill's Utilitarianism

11. Adrian Moore on Infinity

12. Anthony Grayling on Atheism

13. David Papineau on Physicalism

14. Timothy Williamson on Vagueness

15. Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage

16. Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism

17. Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

18. Peter Adamson on Avicenna

19. Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

20. Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art

21. Tim Crane on Mind and Body

22. Anthony Kenny on his History of Philosophy

23. Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

24. Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent

25. Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

Latest Philosophy Bites Podcast: Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

Is there evidence of intelligent design in the Universe? In the Eighteenth Century David Hume presented a series of powerful arguments against the Argument from Design.  Stewart Sutherland, Provost of Gresham College,  outlines these arguments and demonstrates their continuing relevance in this latest interview for Philosophy Bites.

Listen to Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

Steven Pinker on Metaphor etc.

Point of Inquiry has a podcast interview with Steven Pinker about the themes of his new book The Stuff of Thought. He is particularly interesting on the topic of metaphors and their role in our language and thought. This is part of his larger project of revealing facts about human nature through an analysis of language and the ways that it works.

Philosophy of Mind Bibliography with Links

David Chalmers has put together a very useful bibliography on the Philosophy of Mind here. Not all papers are directly linked to this, but some are.

Onora O'Neill podcast on Medical Consent

Listen to Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent. This is the latest podcast episode of Philosophy BItes.

Sam Harris on Why Atheists Shouldn't Call Themselves Atheists

Sam Harris has a very  interesting polemic online about atheism and why atheists shouldn't call themselves atheists...it has generated over 600 comments already. His basic line is that we should focus on ideas such as 'reason' and 'evidence' rather than define ourselves in opposition to believers...

Read Sam Harris on The Problem With Atheism

Quentin Skinner on Hobbes - latest interview on Philosophy Bites

Quentin Skinner gives a fascinating overview of Thomas Hobbes' view of the State in this latest audio interview for Philosophy Bites.

Listen to Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

David Hendy on BBC Radio 4 and Morality - an interview

What has BBC Radio 4 got to do with morality?

David Hendy, author of a recent book on the history of BBC Radio 4 - Life on Air: a History of Radio 4 (described by Stefan Collini as 'this endlessly engrossing book  ' in his Guardian review) discusses this question in a podcast audio interview made specially for virtual philosopher.

Hendy discusses the Reithian vision of the early days of the radio station from its beginnings in 1967 (dispelling  some myths about Lord Reith's alleged elitism in the process). He goes on to illuminate difficult route it plotted for itself in the 70s, 80s and 90s, at one point steering between the unlikely Scylla and Chaybdis of Mary Whitehouse and Stuart Hall.

Listen to mp3 of David Hendy discussing Radio 4 and morality (18'28")

New Posts on Art and Allusion weblog

Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern

An interview with photographer Stuart Franklin about his book Hotel Afrique

A link to an interesting article about Daniel Libeskind

Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy

Anthony Kenny talks about his new four-volume history of Philosophy in the latest episode of Philosophy Bites (he reveals in an aside that he used to meet up with Derrida to discuss Descartes - who would have predicted that?).

Listen to this podcast interview with Anthony Kenny