Philosophy BItes, the weekly podcast series of interviews with philosophers that I started with David Edmonds less than a year ago has already had more than a million downloads! Of course not everyone who downloads listens to what they download any more than people who buy books all read them. But it has to indicate a serious interest in Philosophy worldwide. Perhaps as gratifying is the stream of fan emails that we are getting from all over the world. There are people listening to us as they drive to work in Australia, as they walk through the streets of Tokyo, and as they do the washing up in small towns across the USA. Thanks very much for your encouragement.
Here are links to the first 44 episodes...
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
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
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
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
26. Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
27. Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
28. Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
29. Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
30. Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
31. Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments
32. Barry Stroud on Scepticism
33. G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
35. Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
36. Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
37. Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
38. Richard Norman on Humanism
39. Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
40. Richard Tuck on Free Riding
42. A.C.Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
Congratulations. I've enjoyed them a lot.
The other thing to remember is sometimes people will download the same files multiple times - either because their software isn't setup properly, or because they accidentally delete the file (or their hard drive gets wiped, as with moi). The more interesting measure for podcasts is how many people are subscribed. I'm not sure about Libsyn, but some of the feed hosts will provide a rough subscriber figure.
Looking forward to more bites of ethics and metaphysics and logic and all that good stuff.
Posted by: Tom Morris | March 12, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Congratulations on the millionth. I thought I would drop a word so that Tokyo, Australia and the USA shouldn't monopolise the reader stream. I do read the Bites, and they are all stored in a special file and some have been read more than once(or even twice).
I read the Bites in a beautiful Welsh valley, for your information, surrounded by far too many philosophy books. I'm really working at a book myself after a number of attempts. It's on becoming a naturalist/humanist/non-supernaturalist or an aetheist if I must.
Kind regards
Terry
Posted by: Terry Thomas | March 12, 2008 at 04:56 PM
Congratulations Nigel. Good work.
Rolando Almeida
Portugal
Posted by: Rolando Almeida | March 12, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Congratulations.
(now hurry up with the Classics podcasts - Mill and Rawls, please)
Posted by: João Feliz | March 14, 2008 at 10:44 PM