Podcast Episodes

Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann on Disagreement About Taste

We certainly disagree about aesthetic judgments in a range of cases. But is anyone right? Is there  no disputing about taste? Are all tastes equal? E…

8 years, 8 months ago

Andy Clark on The Extended Mind

Andy Clark, who with David Chalmers proposed the theory of the extended mind, explains what he means by this idea in this episode of the Philosophy B…

8 years, 9 months ago

Stephen Davies on Art and Evolution

Why do we have art at all? There must be some evolutionary explanation. In this episode of the Aesthetics Bites podcast series, Stephen Davies discus…

8 years, 10 months ago

Eileen John on Art and Morality

In this episode of  Aesthetics Bites, Eileen John discusses some of the ways that art explores moral questions. Nigel Warburton is the interviewer.

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8 years, 10 months ago

Chris Frith on The Point of Consciousness

Why do we have consciousness at all? Neuroscientist Chris Frith discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Mind Bites which is p…

8 years, 11 months ago

Keith Frankish on Conscious Thought

One distinctive feature of human beings is that we can represent aspects of the world to ourselves, and also counterfactual situations. We do this th…

8 years, 11 months ago

Amia Srinivasan on What is a Woman?

'What is a woman?' may seem a straightforward question, but it isn't. Feminist philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir onwards have had a great deal to …

9 years ago

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 Bites made in association wi…

9 years, 1 month ago

Anthony Gottlieb on Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle was one of the best-known philosophers in the Eighteenth Century, but his work is now rarely studied. Anthony Gottlieb, author of The Dr…

9 years, 1 month ago

Kathleen Stock on Fiction and the Emotions

How should we understand the emotions that readers feel about fictional characters? Kathleen Stock discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in th…

9 years, 1 month ago