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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
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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
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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
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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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17mins
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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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14mins
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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
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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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15mins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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20mins