David Edmonds on Trolley Problems
Is it ever morally acceptable to kill one person to save many? Most people agree that in some extreme circumstances this, though psychologically difficult, can be the right action to take. In this epi...
1 Sep 201317min
Jessica Moss on Weakness of Will
You think you know what's best but don't do it. We've all been there. For Plato and Aristotle this weakness of will presented a philosophical problem. Jessica Moss explains their contrasting approache...
17 Aug 201312min
Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' focuses on judgements about beauty in writing. Can we say with any authority that one writer or work is better than another? Michael Martin gives a clear analys...
3 Aug 201317min
Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
What do we really care about? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samuel Scheffler suggests that most of us care a lot about what happens after our deaths, and that affects what we feel ab...
20 Juli 201317min
Noel Carroll on Humour and Morality
Must humour be moral? What about jokes that rely on immoral attitudes? Can they be funny? Are humour and morality simply separate spheres. Noel Carroll explores the relationship between humour and mo...
6 Juli 201319min
Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
Can computers think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that they can't. Daniel Dennett is suspicious about the way the thought experiment is set up. In this conv...
23 Juni 201316min
Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues
'How should we live?' is a basic philosophical question. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Dale Jamieson addresses the question in a period when human beings are having devastating effec...
9 Juni 201318min
Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures
Most philosophers today self-identify as within an Analytic or a Continental tradition. Where did these two cultures of philosophy come from? What role does Continental Philosophy play for Analytic Ph...
27 Maj 201316min
