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Back to SearchKate Kirkpatrick on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir
In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, Kate Kirkpatrick, author of a new biography of Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir, discusses the relationsh…
6 years, 6 months ago
Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?
'What is a woman?' has become a contentious question with practical implications. The philosopher Kathleen Stock gives an account of the category 'wo…
6 years, 7 months ago
Christian Miller on the Character Gap
Christian Miller believes that there is a character gap, a gap between what we think we are like morally and how we actually behave. In this episode …
6 years, 10 months ago
Philip Pettit on the Birth of Ethics
Where did ethics come from? Philip Pettit tells an 'as if' story about the birth of ethics that is designed to illuminate what ethics is and why it e…
6 years, 10 months ago
Helen Beebee on Possible Worlds
Philosophers often talk about possible worlds. Is this just a way of describing counterfactual situations? As Helen Beebee explains, some of them bel…
6 years, 11 months ago
Paul Sagar on Scepticism about Philosophy
Throughout its history there have been challenges to the status of philosophy. Paul Sagar discusses some of these in this episode of the Philosophy B…
7 years, 1 month ago
Katherine Hawley on Trustworthiness
Is it always good to be trustworthy? Can trustworthiness come into conflict with other values, such as generosity? Katherine Hawley discusses these …
7 years, 3 months ago
Teresa Bejan on Civility
Civility is a conversational virtue that governs how people talk to each other. How important is it in political life? In this episode of the Philoso…
7 years, 4 months ago
Robert B. Talisse on Overdoing Democracy
You can overdo most things, but can you overdo democracy? Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse thinks you can. He explains why in this episode of …
7 years, 5 months ago
Robert Wright on Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright believes that there are a number of key tenets of Buddhism which are both compatible with present day evolutionary theory, and accurate…
7 years, 8 months ago