Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
Is it possible to be a citizen of the world while maintaining your own distinctive identity? Anthony Appiah defends the ethical position he dubs cosmopolitanism (which for him is universalism combined...
2 Mar 200815min
A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
A.C. Grayling, author of a recent biography of René Descartes, explores Descartes' Cogito argument, the pivotal argument of the Meditations, in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Phi...
23 Feb 200812min
Hugh Mellor on Time
Events happen in time. And time is essentially tensed: there is past, present, future. D.H. Mellor, author of Real Time (and Real Time 2) suggests otherwise. In this podcast for Philosophy Bites he ex...
15 Feb 200811min
Richard Tuck on Free Riding
If what I do has only a negligible impact on events, why should I bother doing it at all? Why not 'free ride' on other people's contributions? Richard Tuck explores these questions in this episode of ...
10 Feb 200818min
Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
Most philosophers who consider the movies focus on the nature of the cinematic medium. Stephen Mulhall argues for a different approach. He thinks that a film such as Bladerunner can actually be philos...
3 Feb 200818min
Richard Norman on Humanism
How can non-believers make sense of the world? How can there be morality without God? In this episode of Philosophy Bites philosopher Richard Norman explains how it is possible to lead a good life wit...
27 Jan 200810min
Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
The eighteenth century thinker and politician Edmund Burke was one of the founders of modern conservativism. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France he attacked the revolution. For this episode...
20 Jan 200814min
Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
What causes human agression? For Plato's Socrates it comes from innate tendencies nurtured in the wrong way. And that's where war comes from. Angie Hobbs gives a fascinating introduction to this aspec...
13 Jan 200810min
