Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History
What is the point of studying philosophy's past? Is it just to learn about the history of ideas? Is there something special about the history of philosophy that makes it different from the history of ...
6 Apr 201213min
Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Is it ethical to select advantageous genes and select against disadvantageous genes when having babies? Julian Savulescu, Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford, discusses this q...
2 Apr 201221min
Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness
Do recent discoveries in neuroscience threaten the notion of moral responsibility? Could we have moral responsibility without full consciousness of the significance of our actions? Neil Levy discusses...
23 Mar 201218min
Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value
Is liberty compatible with equality? Many philosophers think it can't be, and that pluralism is the correct response. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Ronald Dworkin argues that there i...
9 Mar 201218min
Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language
J. L. Austin, who died in 1960, was an immensely influential philosopher whose method involved precise scrutiny of ordinary language: the precise words, the contexts in which they were uttered, and w...
25 Feb 201215min
Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham, legal reformer and philosopher, was an early Utilitarian. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews Bentham scholar and head of the Bentham Project, Ph...
11 Feb 201215min
Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibilityhttp
What is criminal responsibility? Is it a timeless concept, or does it have a historical aspect? Nicola Lacey addresses these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philo...
27 Jan 201217min
Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0
Some atheists despise religion and ridicule it as absurd. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists, takes a more pragmatic line, arguing that at...
16 Jan 201215min
