Tarun Khaitan on Decolonising Institutions
Narendra Modi has spoken of "decolonising" India including its post-colonial constitution Are philosophical criticisms of this constitution well-founded? Tarun Khaitan of the London School of Economic...
26 Feb 21min
Janet Radcliffe Richards on What is Philosophy?
Philosophers argue endlessly about what philosophy is. Janet Radcliffe Richards suggests that a simple way to approach this question is to examine what we think about inconsistencies. She uses an exa...
24 Jan 15min
Chike Jeffers on Africana Philosophy
David Edmonds talks to Chike Jeffers of Dalhousie University about Africana Philosophy. This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations.
1 Jan 15min
Angie Hobbs on Plato on Power
11 Dec 202523min
Samuel Scheffler on Grief and Time
Grief is affected by the passage of time in a way that some attitudes and emotions aren't. Samuel Scheffler explores why this might be so in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
21 Nov 202521min
Edouard Machery on Variations in Responses to Thought Experiments
Philosophers who use thought experiments often believe their own intutions in response to them are unviersal. But that's not always so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Edouard Machery ...
2 Nov 202521min
Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon, who was born in Martinique, died aged 36. He nevertheless made very significant contributions to the discussion of racism and colonialism, influenced strongly by the existentialist tradi...
17 Okt 202523min
David Edmonds on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond Thought Experiment
In this interview of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews David Edmonds about Peter Singer's famous thought experient about what you would do if you saw a child at risk of drowning ...
5 Okt 202519min
