Sun, 29 June 2008
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 Philosophy Bites John Broome presents his view of how such decisions should be taken.
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Sun, 22 June 2008
Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, divided philosophers. For some he was a genius; for others a charlatan. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites Robert Rowland Smith defends Derrida's views about the concept of forgiveness.
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Category:Robert Roland Smith -- posted at: 10:37pm GMT |
Mon, 16 June 2008
John Locke, writing in the Seventeenth Century, argued for religious toleration, though stopped short of toleration of atheists. In this episode of the podcast Philosophy Bites, Nigel Warburton interviews Locke expert John Dunn on this topic.
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Sun, 8 June 2008
Should minority groups such as recent immigrants or those who have suffered historic injustice be given rights that other citizens don't have? Will Kymlicka believes they should. Listen to his arguments in defence of this position in this episode of Philosophy Bites.
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Category:Will Kymlicka -- posted at: 1:52pm GMT |
Sun, 1 June 2008
What goes on when someone does something deliberately? Jennifer Hornsby discusses this difficult philosophical question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.
Direct download: Jennifer_Hornsby_on_Human_Agency.mp3
Category:Jennifer Hornsby -- posted at: 8:28pm GMT |