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Philosophy Bites

David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics. Two books based on the series have been publis... Read more

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Keith Frankish on the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia

Keith Frankish on the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia

Keith Frankish discusses consciousness, subjective experience and the brain in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podc... Read more

11 Oct 2014

15mins

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John Gardner on Constitutions

John Gardner on Constitutions

What are constitutions and how are we to interpret them? John Gardner addresses these questions in conversation with Nig... Read more

17 Mar 2013

17mins

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Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

Is there any connection between philosophy and running. Mark Rowlands, who began running to exercise his pet wolf thinks... Read more

29 Mar 2013

11mins

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Roger Scruton on Human Nature

Roger Scruton on Human Nature

Are human beings fundamentally different from the rest of the animal world? Can what we essentially are be captured in a... Read more

29 Aug 2017

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Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cheryl Misak has recently published a biography of F.P. Ramsey, the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only ... Read more

30 May 2020

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Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

The process of dying can be horrible for many, but is there anything bad about death itself? The obvious answer is that ... Read more

18 Apr 2017

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Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

Are moral judgements simply relative to culture? Are moral relativists in the grip of a fundamental confusion, or is tha... Read more

23 Oct 2011

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Keith Frankish on Conscious Thought

Keith Frankish on Conscious Thought

One distinctive feature of human beings is that we can represent aspects of the world to ourselves, and also counterfact... Read more

14 Jan 2017

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Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?http

Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?http

Metaphysics is the philosophical study of reality. But what does that mean in pratice, and what are the limits of what i... Read more

1 Jan 2012

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Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?

Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?

'What is a woman?' has become a contentious question with practical implications. The philosopher Kathleen Stock gives a... Read more

21 May 2019

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Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality provides a radical view of the origins of our values. Nigel Warburton in... Read more

28 Sep 2008

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Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

Could you be part of a computer simulation of reality? Sounds unlikely, doesn't it. But Nick Bostrom might make you thin... Read more

14 Aug 2011

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Greg Currie on the Philosophy of Film

Greg Currie on the Philosophy of Film

This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on several questions about representation and perception in the phi... Read more

26 Mar 2016

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Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body

Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most interesting of the French phenomenological thinkers, but his reputation has be... Read more

2 Mar 2016

17mins

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Simon May on Love

Simon May on Love

Can love be defined? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Simon May, author of a recent book on the topic, ar... Read more

7 May 2011

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Aaron Meskin on the Definition of Art

Aaron Meskin on the Definition of Art

What is Art? That's not an easy question to answer. Some philosophers even think it can't be answered. Aaron Meskin disc... Read more

30 May 2017

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Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

Beliefs are important. Wars are fought over conflicting belief systems. Philosophers ask 'What is it reasonable to belie... Read more

9 Oct 2011

20mins

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Graham Priest on Buddhism and Philosophy

Graham Priest on Buddhism and Philosophy

What is the nature of the self? What is reality? How should we live? These are fundamental philosophical questions. Grah... Read more

13 Oct 2015

17mins

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Kate Jeffery on Concepts and Representation

Kate Jeffery on Concepts and Representation

Neuroscientist Kate Jeffery discusses how the brain represents the world. This episode is is part of a short series Mind... Read more

5 Dec 2016

16mins

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Elizabeth Anderson on 'Let's Talk'

Elizabeth Anderson on 'Let's Talk'

In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, recorded before the Covid-19 lockdowns, the political philosopher Eliza... Read more

19 Apr 2020

20mins

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