Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
New technology is changing our relationship to reality and in the process what we are, argues Luciano Floridi, in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites. This is the fourth revolution...
28 Jun 200913min
Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
What is a person and what makes me the same person over time despite change? John Locke emphasized that continuity of memory makes us the same person over time. In contrast Paul Snowdon argues that we...
14 Jun 200920min
Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
Michael Sandel. 2009 Reith Lecturer, discusses the moral limits of markets. You can follow Nigel Warburton discussing Sandel's first Reith lecture on Twitter on www.twitter.com/philosophybites from 10...
28 Mai 200918min
Allen Buchanan on Enhancement
Philosophy Bites looks at ethical questions raised by enhancement. Technological developments have opened up many new opportunities for intervening in biological processes to improve ourselves. Allen ...
16 Mai 200919min
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology
Moral psychology is the empirical study of how people make moral judgements. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the relevance of psychological research ...
2 Mai 200914min
Thomas Hurka on Pleasure
Pleasure is something we all want. But is it, and should it be the only thing that we want? Is pleasure all the same kind of thing? Philosopher Thomas Hurka explores the concept of pleasure in convers...
18 Apr 200917min
Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics
This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on Aristotle's Ethics. In conversation with Nigel Warburton, Terence Irwin of Oxford University explains the key features of this influential work.
4 Apr 200917min
Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying
Assisted dying, providing a patient with the means to kill themselves, is a highly controversial issue. For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Raymond Tallis, who is both an eminent gerontol...
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