Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatherine 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 been eclipsed by those of Jean-…
9 years, 10 months ago
Michael Devitt on Experimental Semantics
Does the word 'Gödel' straightforwardly refer to the person who came up with the incompleteness theory of arithmetic? Some think the best way to find…
9 years, 10 months ago
Steven Hyman on Categorising Mental Disorders
Steven E. Hyman discusses the philosophical issues that arise from attempting to categorise mental disorders with David Edmonds in this episode of th…
9 years, 11 months ago
Leif Wenar on Trade and Tyranny
Where does our oil come from? Does it matter? Leif Wenar, author of the recent book Blood Oil, argues that Western democracies are compromising thems…
10 years ago
Katrin Flikschuh on Philosophy in Africa
In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Katrin Flikschuh addresses the question 'What sort of philosophy is going on in Africa?'
10 years ago
Carlo Rovelli on Philosophy and Physics
Some eminent physicists, including Stephen Hawking, have been sceptical of the value of philosophy to physics. Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist…
10 years, 1 month ago
John Worrall on Evidence-Based Medicine
What sort of conclusions can we legitimately draw from the experiments that support evidence-based medicine? John Worrall questions some of the recei…
10 years, 1 month ago
Joshua Greene on the Construction of Thought
We take for granted the fact that we can combine concepts to give new thoughts, and understand the thoughts too. How do we do that? Joshua D. Greene …
10 years, 2 months ago
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. Graham Priest discusses how such …
10 years, 2 months ago
Jesse Prinz on Is Everything Socially Constructed?
To what degree is reality something created by us? Jesse Prinz explores this fascinating question in conversation with Nigel Warburton.
10 years, 3 months ago