Neuroscientist Kate Jeffery discusses how the brain represents the world. This episode is is part of a short series Mind Bites made in association with Nicholas Shea's AHRC-funded Meaning for the Brain and Meaning for the Person project. That website is open for comments and discussion of the topic of this podcast.

Direct download: Kate_Jeffery_on_Concepts_and_Representation.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:51pm GMT

Pierre Bayle was one of the best-known philosophers in the Eighteenth Century, but his work is now rarely studied. Anthony Gottlieb, author of The Dream of Enlightenment, argues that he should be better known, particularly his work on toleration and on scepticism. 

Direct download: Anthony_Gottlieb_on_Pierre_Bayle.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:35pm GMT

How should we understand the emotions that readers feel about fictional characters? Kathleen Stock discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this, the second episode of Aesthetics Bites, a collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and Philosophy Bites, made possibly by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics.

Direct download: Kathleen_Stock_on_Fiction_and_the_Emotions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:20pm GMT

Immigration is one of the major, and most contentious, political issues of our day. Can philosophy help here? David Miller thinks so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he speaks to David Edmonds about border controls and their justification. 

Direct download: David_Miller_on_Immigration.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:55pm GMT

What is laughter? What roles does it serve? Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist, discusses this serious question with Nigel Warburton for this episode of Mind Bites, a series made in association with Philosophy Bites as part of Nicholas Shea's AHRC-funded Meaning for the Brain and Meaning for the Person project 

Direct download: Sophie_Scott_on_the_Meaning_of_Laughter.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:08pm GMT

Do we map the world in our minds? Does that imply that we have a little inner map-reader in our heads interpreting mental representations? Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This episode is is part of a short series Mind Bites made in association with Nicholas Shea's AHRC-funded Meaning for the Brain and Meaning for the Person project.

Direct download: Peter_Godfrey-Smith_on_Mental_Representations.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:54am GMT

Noel Carroll argues that evaluation is a central element of criticism of art, drama, dance, music, and literature.  Nigel Warburton is the interviewer for this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This is the first of a series of 6 interviews on Aesthetics, made in association with the London Aesthetics Forum and made possible by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics.

Direct download: Noel_Carroll_on_Criticism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:40pm GMT

How should we remember and commemorate those who die in war? What about the enemy dead? Cecile Fabre discusses this issue with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Direct download: Cecile_Fabre_on_Remembrance.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:53pm GMT

Many philosophers deny the common sense view that we think with pictures. Are they right to do so? Jesse Prinz doesn't think so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he explains to Nigel Warburton why we need to think again about thinking with pictures. This episode is part of the series Mind Bites, made in association with Nicholas Shea's AHRC-sponsored Meaning for the Brain and Meaning for the Person project. 

Direct download: Jesse_Prinz_on_Thinking_with_Pictures.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm GMT

The mid-life crisis is a well-observed phenomenon. Is there a philosophical angle on this? MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya thinks there is. He discusses it in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

Direct download: Kieran_Setiya_on_the_Mid-Life_Crisis.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:20pm GMT

Epicureanism has been caricatured as a philosophy of indulgence. But what did followers of the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus really believe? Catherine Wilson discusses Epicureanism with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Direct download: Catherine_Wilson_on_Epicureanism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:42pm GMT

If determinism is true, can there be any justification for punishment? Gregg Caruso discusses this issue on Philosophy Bites.

Direct download: Gregg_Caruson_on_Freewill_and_Punishment.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:09pm GMT

This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on several questions about representation and perception in the philosophy of film. Nigel Warburton talks to Greg Currie

Direct download: Greg_Currie_on_the_Philosophy_of_Film.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:35pm GMT

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most interesting of the French phenomenological thinkers, but his reputation has been eclipsed by those of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Katherine Morris discusses some of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about the body in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Direct download: Katherine_Morris_on_Merleau-Ponty_on_the_Body.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:56pm GMT

Does the word 'Gödel' straightforwardly refer to the person who came up with the incompleteness theory of arithmetic? Some think the best way to find out to ask people about their intuitions on the topic? This creates all kinds of problems, as Michael Devitt explains in conversation with Nigel Warburton.

Direct download: Michael_Devitt_on_Experimental_Semantics.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:21am GMT

Steven E. Hyman discusses the philosophical issues that arise from attempting to categorise mental disorders with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Direct download: Steven_Hyman_on_Categorising_Mental_Disorders.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:54am GMT

Where does our oil come from? Does it matter? Leif Wenar, author of the recent book Blood Oil, argues that Western democracies are compromising themselves by buying either directly or indirectly from vicious tyrants. 

Direct download: Leif_Wenar_on_Trade_and_Tyranny.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:46am GMT



-->

Syndication

Categories

Archives

March 2016
S M T W T F S
     
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31