Patricia Churchland on Self Control
Neurophilosopher Pat Churchland discusses the insights that neuroscience can give us into the nature of self control in this episode of the Philosophyh Bites podcast.
22 Dec 201318min
Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias
Implicit biases are tricky. We all have them, apparently, but we don't realise we have them. What are the implications of these biases? Does it, perhaps, go some way to explaining why there are so few...
7 Dec 201316min
Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
Bernard Williams was one of the most brilliant philosophers of his generation. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Adrian Moore discusses his ideas about Ethics.
23 Nov 201321min
Rom Harre on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Rom Harre discusses and illustrates the so-called Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, the focus on actual uses of language that was advocated by the later W...
10 Nov 201315min
Robert Talisse on the Importance of Arguments in Politics
Why is argument so important in politics? Bob Talisse, co-author of Why We Argue (and how we should), explores this issue in conversation with David Edmonds for this episode of the Philosophy Bites po...
26 Okt 201318min
John Tasioulas on Human Rights
What are human rights? Are they simply legal rights? What is their relation to morality? John Tasioulas discusses the basis of human rights in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the ...
12 Okt 201321min
Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
You might expect people who specialize in moral philosophy to behave better than other people. Eric Schwitzgebel has done some empirical investigation of whether this is the case, and it doesn't seem ...
28 Sep 201316min
Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
Many people have noticed similarities between what David Hume wrote about the self and Buddhist teaching on this subject. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites archive Alison Gopnik discusses the po...
14 Sep 201315min
