Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Modern Society
Modern society is for most people synonymous with progress. Not for the eighteenth century thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau believed that civilization corrupts us in certain ways. Melissa Lane ...
6 Jul 200816min
John Broome on Weighing Lives
How do we weigh lives one against another? Governments frequently have to make life and death decisions that take in to account such issues as the quality of life compared to the length of a life. In ...
29 Jun 200814min
Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, divided philosophers. For some he was a genius; for others a charlatan. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites Robert Rowland Smith defends Derrida's vie...
22 Jun 200812min
John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
John Locke, writing in the Seventeenth Century, argued for religious toleration, though stopped short of toleration of atheists. In this episode of the podcast Philosophy Bites, Nigel Warburton interv...
15 Jun 200813min
Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
Should minority groups such as recent immigrants or those who have suffered historic injustice be given rights that other citizens don't have? Will Kymlicka believes they should. Listen to his argumen...
8 Jun 200816min
Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency
What goes on when someone does something deliberately? Jennifer Hornsby discusses this difficult philosophical question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.
1 Jun 200810min
Tim Scanlon on Free Speech
In this bonus episode produced in association with the Open University, Tim Scanlon discusses the limits of free speech with Nigel Warburton. A transcript of this episode is available from www.open2.n...
30 Mai 200817min
Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
Do you own your body? If not, who does? These are important questions in an age in which there is extensive trade in body parts. Donna Dickenson, author of Body Shopping, discusses this issue with Nig...
25 Mai 200814min
