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<title>Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil</title>
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<category>Peter Adamson</category>
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<title>Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What precisely is a legal right? Matthew Kramer discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Mathew Kramer</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Civilization is for most people synonymous with progress. Not for the eighteenth century thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau believed that civilization corrupts us in certain ways. Melissa Lane explains Rousseau's views on progress in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Melissa Lane</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>John Broome on Weighing Lives</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How do we weigh lives one against another? Governments frequently have to make life and death decisions that take in to account such issues as the quality of life compared to the length of a life. In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> John Broome presents his view of how such decisions should be taken.<br/>]]></description>
<category>John Broome</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, divided philosophers. For some he was a genius; for others a charlatan. In this episode of the<span style="font-style: italic;"> Philosophy Bites</span> Robert Rowland Smith defends Derrida's views about the concept of forgiveness.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Robert Roland Smith</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>John Dunn on Locke on Toleration</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Locke, writing in the Seventeenth Century, argued for religious toleration, though stopped short of toleration of atheists. In this episode of the podcast <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>, Nigel Warburton interviews Locke expert John Dunn on this topic.<br/>]]></description>
<category>John Dunn</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights</title>
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<title>Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What goes on when someone does something deliberately? Jennifer Hornsby discusses this difficult philosophical question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites.</span><br/>]]></description>
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<title>Tim Scanlon on Free Speech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this bonus episode produced in association with the Open University, Tim Scanlon discusses the limits of free speech with Nigel Warburton. A transcript of this episode is available from <a href="http://">www.open2.net/ethicsbites/</a><br/>]]></description>
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<title>Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you own your body? If not, who does? These are important questions in an age in which there is extensive trade in body parts. Donna Dickenson, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Body Shopping</span>, discusses this issue with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this bonus episode produced in association with The Open University, Mary Warnock, a philosopher who also sits in the House of Lords, addresses the question 'Do we have a right to have babies?' A transcript of this episode is available at http://www.open2.net/ethicsbites/right-have-babies.html<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth century Dominican is the subject of this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>. Anthony Kenny explains the key features of Aquinas'&nbsp; ethics in conversation with Nigel Warburton.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this bonus episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> made in association with the Open University, Michael Sandel addresses the question of whether we should allow genetic enhancement of athletes. Drawing on themes from his recent book, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Case Against Perfection</span>, he discusses the ethical issues at stake. A transcript of this episode is available at www.open2.net/ethicsbites/<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx's theory of alienated labour is the topic of this episode of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> podcast. Jonathan Wolff, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Why Read Marx Today? </span>explains what Marx meant by alienation. He also sheds light on Marx's controversial description of what non-alienated labour would be like.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this bonus episode produced in association with the Open University as part of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Ethics Bites</span> series,  Peter Singer, perhaps the world's best known living philosopher, discusses how we treat animals. A transcript of this episode is available from www.open2.net/ethicsbites/<br/><br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 09:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Friedrich Hayek was a major figure in Twentieth Century economics and political philosophy, but his ideas are sometimes caricatured, not least because Margaret Thatcher approved of his work. Chandran Kukathas explains the key features of his liberalism in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Chandran Kukathas</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 16:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Richard Reeves, author of a recent biography of John Stuart Mill sheds light on Mill's classic defence of individual freedom, <span style="font-style: italic;">On Liberty</span>.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>David Miller on National Responsibility</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can a nation be collectively responsible for actions? And how should apologies and reparations be handled when the perpetrators of injustice may be dead? David Miller, author of a recent book on this topic, explores the kinds of responsibility that nations can have.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Peter Millican on Hume's Significance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Hume is probably the greatest English-speaking philosopher to date. In this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites.</span> Peter Millican, a Hume specialist, explains why his philosophy was so important.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Peter Millican</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are men and women different by nature? And if so, what follows? Janet Radcliffe Richards, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sceptical Feminist</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Human Nature After Darwin, </span>examines questions about human nature, focusing on John Stuart Mill's important book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Subjection of Women</span>. David Edmonds is the interviewer for this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Raimond Gaita on Torture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is it immoral even to consider the use of torture in some circumstances? If the State is threatened, should we be prepared to shelve human rights for an end we consider worthwhile? Raimond Gaita discusses a range of arguments about torture in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is art? Can anything be a work of art? Derek Matravers, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Art and Emotion</span>, explores these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites </span>(<a href="http://">www.philosophybites.com</a>).]]></description>
<category>Derek Matravers</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Was Plato's ideal state a totalitarian one? Karl Popper, thought so, and made his case in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Open Society and Its Enemies</span>. Melissa Lane, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Plato's Progeny</span>, reassesses Popper's critique of Plato in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>. <br/>]]></description>
<category>Melissa Lane</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Thomas Pink on Free Will</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We often blame people for what they do or fail to do. But that implies that they were free to choose whether or not to act in the way they did. At the same time science seems to reveal prior causes of all our actions. There seems little or no room for free will.&nbsp; In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span><a href="http://"></a> Thomas Pink, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Free Will: A Very Short Introduction,</span> discusses the Free Will Problem and outlines his own approach to it.]]></description>
<category>Thomas Pink</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=313008#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to be a citizen of the world while maintaining your own distinctive identity? Anthony Appiah defends the ethical position he dubs cosmopolitanism (which for him is universalism combined with a recognition and celebration of diversity) in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Anthony Appiah</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=310238#</link>
<description><![CDATA[A.C. Grayling, author of a recent biography of RenÃ Descartes, explores Descartes' <span style="font-style: italic;">Cogito </span>argument, the pivotal argument of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Meditations</span>, in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span><a href="http://"></a>. <br/><br type="_moz"/>]]></description>
<category>Anthony Grayling</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hugh Mellor on Time</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Events happen in time. And time is essentially tensed: there is past, present, future. D.H. Mellor, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Real Time</span> (and <span style="font-style: italic;">Real Time 2</span>) suggests otherwise. In this podcast for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> he explains why time isn't tensed.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Hugh Mellor</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Richard Tuck on Free Riding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If what I do has only a negligible impact on events, why should I bother doing it at all? Why not 'free ride' on other people's contributions? Richard Tuck explores these questions in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Richard Tuck</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most philosophers who consider the movies focus on the nature of the cinematic medium. Stephen Mulhall argues for a different approach. He thinks that a film such as <span style="font-style: italic;">Bladerunner</span> can actually <span style="font-style: italic;">be</span> philosophy.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Stephen Mulhall</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Richard Norman on Humanism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How can non-believers make sense of the world? How can there be morality without God? In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> philosopher Richard Norman explains how it is possible to lead a good life without religion.]]></description>
<category>Richard Norman</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The eighteenth century thinker and politician Edmund Burke was one of the founders of modern conservativism. In his <span style="font-style: italic;">Reflections on the Revolution in France</span> he attacked the revolution. For this episode of Philosophy Bites Richard Bourke of Queen Mary, London,&nbsp; puts Edmund Burke in his historical context and outlines his key ideas.&nbsp; <br/>]]></description>
<category>Richard Bourke</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Angie Hobbs on Plato on War</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What causes human agression? For Plato's Socrates it comes from innate tendencies nurtured in the wrong way. And that's where war comes from. Angie Hobbs gives a fascinating introduction to this aspect of Plato's <span style="font-style: italic;">Republic </span>in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.]]></description>
<category>Angie Hobbs</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the great figures of Twentieth Century Philosophy. Part of his originality lay in his view of what Philosophy was and how it ought to be done. For this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Barry Smith of Birkbeck College London gives a lucid account of Wittgenstein's conception of Philosophy.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Barry Smith</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mark Vernon on Friendship</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is friendship? Is it a suitable subject for Philosophy? Mark Vernon, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Philosophy of Friendship</span>, explores these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Mark Vernon</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=289020#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Can differences in income be morally justified? Should we expect rich people to give their money to the poor? G.A. Cohen, author of a book with the provocative title<span style="font-style: italic;"> If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? </span>addresses these questions in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>G.A. Cohen</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Barry Stroud on Scepticism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can I trust my senses? Can I tell that I'm not now dreaming? Some
philosophical sceptics have maintained that we can't know anything for
certain. <a href="http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/stroud/">Barry Stroud</a> discusses the challenge posed by such sceptics in this episode of <i>Philosophy Bites</i>.]]></description>
<category>Barry Stroud</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=285786#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Philosophers often use elaborate thought experiments in their writing. Are these anything more than rhetorical flourishes? Or do they reveal important aspects of the questions under discussion. Julian Baggini, editor of The <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophers' Magazine</span> and author of a book which surveys some of the most interesting and imaginative thought experiments philosophers have used discusses thought experiments with Nigel Warburton for this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>. David Edmonds introduces the interview.]]></description>
<category>Julian Baggini</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=283598#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What are the passions and what role do they play in human life? These fundamental questions fascinated Baruch de Spinoza who in his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Ethics </span>gave a highly original account of what it is to be human. In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites, </span>Susan James explains Spinoza's thought in conversation with Nigel Warburton. David Edmonds introduces the discussion.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Susan James</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=281268#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a common currency in which we can compare the various ways in which people choose to live? Isaiah Berlin thought not. He argued that fundamental values may be incommensurable. In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Henry Hardy in conversation with Nigel Warburton explains what Berlin meant by this. He also reveals in passing that Tony Blair once wrote to Berlin hoping to find an intellectual ally..<br/>]]></description>
<category>Henry Hardy</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279224#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is happiness? Is it a matter of blissful mental states subjectively experienced, or is it, as Aristotle believed, more about a successful life? In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Myles Burnyeat in conversation with Nigel Warburton gives a lucid explanation of how he reads Aristotle on happiness.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Miles Burnyeat</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=276924#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is philosophy? Does academic philosophy squeeze the life out of some of the most important questions we can ask? Alain de Botton, author of the bestseller <span style="font-style: italic;">The Consolations of Philosophy</span>, discusses his conception of philosophy and the importance of literary style with Nigel Warburton in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Alain de Botton</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274358#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Plato's <span style="font-style: italic;">Symposium </span>is the most famous philosophical discussion of love, its joys, risks and pleasures. In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Angie Hobbs gives a lively account of what Plato thought about erotic love. <br/>]]></description>
<category>Angie Hobbs</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design</title>
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<category>Stewart Sutherland</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What do we mean by 'consent' in a medical context? Is it reasonable to ask for informed consent before performing medical procedures? Is consent even the most important issue. Onora O'Neill challenges some widely-held assumptions in this area in this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Onora O'Neill</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is the state? How do individuals combine to lend legitimate authority to those who act on the state's behalf? These are fundamental questions in political philosophy that Thomas Hobbes addressed in the seventeenth century. In this interview Quentin Skinner gives a fascinating account of Hobbes' ideas about the state.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Quentin Skinner</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anthony Kenny has recently published a major new four-volume history of philosophy. Nigel Warburton interviews him about this project for this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.]]></description>
<category>Anthony Kenny</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tim Crane on Mind and Body</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is the mind and how does it relate to our bodies? How can something physical think? These are fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind. Tim Crane addresses these difficult issues in this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Tim Crane</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jonathan Ree on Philosophy as an Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some people see Philosophy as close to science. In this episode of the podcast <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Jonathan RÃe explores the idea that Philosophy is an art.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is existentialism? Is it still relevant to us? Sartre believed that we are free to choose what we make of our lives. Was he right?&nbsp; In this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Mary Warnock gives her views on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Peter Adamson on Avicenna</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this week's episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> Nigel Warburton interviews Peter Adamson about Avicenna (born in 973) whom he describes as the greatest philosopher in the history of Islamic thought. The discussion focusses on Avicenna's argument for God's existence.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brad Hooker on Consequentialism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What makes an action a good one? According to consequentialists this question is decided by the action's actual or likely consequences. In this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span> the moral philosopher Brad Hooker explains what consequentialism is and defends it against possible criticism.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is disadvantage? How can we identify the most disadvantaged in society and what should we or governments do about it? Jonathan Wolff, co-author of a new book on the topic, outlines his answers to these questions in this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites.</span><br/>]]></description>
<category>Jonathan Wolff</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Timothy Williamson on Vagueness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Philosopher Timothy Williamson explains how we can make sense of such vague concepts as 'heap' or 'red' or 'bald' in the process outlining his own solution to what are usually known as Sorites Paradoxes. Williamson gives a precise account of what 'vagueness' means, how it differs from ambiguity, and why this matters.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>David Papineau on Physicalism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are all our thoughts simply physical events in our bodies? Can we give a purely physical account of the conscious human mind?&nbsp; David Papineau believes that we can. In this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites </span>he explains what physicalism is, why he believes it to be true, and how it can be defended against a range of criticisms.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anthony Grayling on Atheism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is belief in the existence of a God or gods the equivalent of believing that there are fairies at the bottom of the garden? Or can it be defended on the basis of reason or evidence? In this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites&nbsp;</span> Anthony Grayling gives a philosophical defence of atheism and explains why he believes it to be a well-grounded and ultimately life-affirming position to hold.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Adrian Moore on Infinity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Infinity is a difficult concept to grasp and one that introduces several paradoxes. In this interview for <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites, </span>Adrian Moore, author of an important book on the subject, gives a clear and stimulating introduction to the philosophy of infinity.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How should we live? John Stuart Mill, one of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century thought that we should maximise happiness. Here Roger Crisp, author of an acclaimed book on Mill, explains Mill's utilitarian ethical theory.]]></description>
<category>Roger Crisp</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Edward Craig - What is Philosophy?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Edward Craig, editor of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy</span> and author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction</span> gives an interesting angle on the nature of philosophy, how it relates to other kinds of thinking, and what makes good philosophy good. <br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Should members of a minority group be left to lead their lives as they see fit, even where their values differ from those of the majority? Anne Phillips, author of a recent book on multiculturalism, addresses the difficult question of how people from different cultures can live together without conflict.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How important is beauty in architecture? Is a concern with beauty mere asetheticism? Alain de Botton, author of The <span style="font-style: italic;">Architecture of Happiness, </span>discusses the nature and value of architectural beauty in this episode of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy Bites</span>.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Alain de Botton</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Barry Smith on Wine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is wine tasting a purely subjective matter? Why should we value the experience of drinking wine? Philosopher Barry Smith, editor of a new book on the philosophy of wine, <span style="font-style: italic;">Questions of Taste, </span>explores these and related issues in this interview.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=226000#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Testimonial injustice occurs when others fail to treat you seriously as a source of knowledge. In this interview Miranda Fricker, author of a recent book on the topic, explains this concept which lies at the intersection between epistemology and political philosophy.]]></description>
<category>Miranda Fricker</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=224621#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of life? This is a basic question for all of us. There is also the possibility that life has no meaning whatsoever. In this interview John Cottingham explains his vision of the kinds of meaning that we can find in our lives.<br/>]]></description>
<category>John Cottingham</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=223611#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is evil? Is it consistent with the existence of a benevolent God? In this interview Stephen Law gives an original take on this traditional philosophical problem.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Stephen Law</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life</title>
<link>http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=221247#</link>
<description><![CDATA[What can philosophers contribute to public life? Mary Warnock who sits in the House of Lords and has chaired two important commissions discusses how her training in philosophy prepared her for these roles.<br/>]]></description>
<category>Mary Warnock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is the nature of reality? Is the world as it appears, or is there something timeless behind the world of appearances? Simon Blackburn discusses one of the most famous images in Philosophy: Plato's cave. <br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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