Sabine Doring on Emotion
What is an emotion? How do emotions differ from moods? What part should the emotions play in our lives and in our understanding of what it is to be human? Sabine Döring addresses these questions in th...
14 Aug 20090s
Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées
Blaise Pascal's Pensées is the subject of this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Few philosophers know the Pensées well, apart from the passage in which Pascal set forth his famous 'wager' - t...
29 Juli 200916min
Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil
The Problem of Evil is usually presented as a problem for believers. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Marilyn McCord Adams suggests that it is a problem for optimistic non-believers.
12 Juli 200914min
Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
New technology is changing our relationship to reality and in the process what we are, argues Luciano Floridi, in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites. This is the fourth revolution...
28 Juni 200913min
Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
What is a person and what makes me the same person over time despite change? John Locke emphasized that continuity of memory makes us the same person over time. In contrast Paul Snowdon argues that we...
14 Juni 200920min
Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
Michael Sandel. 2009 Reith Lecturer, discusses the moral limits of markets. You can follow Nigel Warburton discussing Sandel's first Reith lecture on Twitter on www.twitter.com/philosophybites from 10...
28 Maj 200918min
Allen Buchanan on Enhancement
Philosophy Bites looks at ethical questions raised by enhancement. Technological developments have opened up many new opportunities for intervening in biological processes to improve ourselves. Allen ...
16 Maj 200919min
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology
Moral psychology is the empirical study of how people make moral judgements. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the relevance of psychological research ...
2 Maj 200914min
