David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics. Two books based on the series have been published by Oxford University Press. We are currently self-funding - donations very welcome via our website http://www.philosophybites.com

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Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics

October 25, 2009 16:24 11.81 MB Downloads: 0

This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on the question of whether politicians need ever act immorally. Tony Coady (aka C.A.J. Coady), author of Messy Morality is in conversation with Nigel Warburton.

John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

October 11, 2009 14:42 10.58 MB Downloads: 0

John Campbell explores Bishop Berkeley's puzzle about what our experience is of in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

September 25, 2009 16:24 15.75 MB Downloads: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche has been seen as the philosopher of the Overman, an anti-semite, and a precursor of postmodernist views about truth. But was he any of these? Brian Leiter explores these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

John Armstrong on What You Can Do With Philosophy

September 13, 2009 12:03 8.68 MB Downloads: 0

What can you do with Philosophy? Not very much, according to some people. John Armstrong disagrees. Find out why in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God

August 28, 2009 13:42 9.86 MB Downloads: 0

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God isn't necessary for morality in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Sabine Doring on Emotion

August 14, 2009 0:00:00 14.08 MB Downloads: 0

What is an emotion? How do emotions differ from moods? What part should the emotions play in our lives and in our understanding of what it is to be human? Sabine Döring addresses these questions in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

July 29, 2009 16:22 11.78 MB Downloads: 0

Blaise Pascal's Pensées is the subject of this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Few philosophers know the Pensées well,  apart from the passage in which Pascal set forth his famous 'wager' - the idea that agnostics should gamble on God existing. Here Ben Rogers explains who Pascal was, and why his book is worth reading.

Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

July 12, 2009 14:31 6.97 MB Downloads: 0

The Problem of Evil is usually presented as a problem for believers. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Marilyn McCord Adams suggests that it is a problem for optimistic non-believers.

Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

June 28, 2009 13:59 6.71 MB Downloads: 0

New technology is changing our relationship to reality and in the process what we are, argues Luciano Floridi, in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites. This is the fourth revolution.

Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

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Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold

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Allen Buchanan on Enhancement

May 16, 2009 19:38 14.13 MB Downloads: 0

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology

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