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Back to SearchRom Harre on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Rom Harre discusses and illustrates the so-called Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, the focus on actual…
12 years, 2 months ago
Robert Talisse on the Importance of Arguments in Politics
Why is argument so important in politics? Bob Talisse, co-author of Why We Argue (and how we should), explores this issue in conversation with David …
12 years, 2 months ago
John Tasioulas on Human Rights
What are human rights? Are they simply legal rights? What is their relation to morality? John Tasioulas discusses the basis of human rights in conver…
12 years, 3 months ago
Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
You might expect people who specialize in moral philosophy to behave better than other people. Eric Schwitzgebel has done some empirical investigatio…
12 years, 3 months ago
Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
Many people have noticed similarities between what David Hume wrote about the self and Buddhist teaching on this subject. In this episode of the Phil…
12 years, 3 months ago
David Edmonds on Trolley Problems
Is it ever morally acceptable to kill one person to save many? Most people agree that in some extreme circumstances this, though psychologically diff…
12 years, 4 months ago
Jessica Moss on Weakness of Will
You think you know what's best but don't do it. We've all been there. For Plato and Aristotle this weakness of will presented a philosophical problem…
12 years, 4 months ago
Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' focuses on judgements about beauty in writing. Can we say with any authority that one writer or work is bette…
12 years, 5 months ago
Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
What do we really care about? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samuel Scheffler suggests that most of us care a lot about what happens…
12 years, 5 months ago
Noel Carroll on Humour and Morality
Must humour be moral? What about jokes that rely on immoral attitudes? Can they be funny? Are humour and morality simply separate spheres. Noel Carr…
12 years, 6 months ago