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Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will 17 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
You think you know what's best but do something else instead. What's going on? Plato and Aristotle had different approaches to this phenomenon of weakness of will ('akrasia' in Greek). Jessica Moss wh...
Three Courses in London 17 Aug 2013 | 02:52 am
Nigel Warburton will be leading 3 courses in London over the next 6 months: Playing with Meaning, Monday evenings 21st Oct - 25th Nov., Tate Modern, London. Philosophy in a Day, a one-day course, .....
Michael Martin on Hume on Taste 4 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' addresses the question of whether we can, with any authority, judge one writer to be genuinely better than another. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites pod...
Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife 20 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
What gives value to what we do? If all sentient life were to end a few minutes after my death, how would that affect the meaning of what I'm doing now? Samuel Scheffler discusses this sort of question...
Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality 7 Jul 2013 | 04:28 am
If a joke is immoral, does that make it less funny? Noël Carroll explores the relationship between humour and morality in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen to Noël Carroll on Humo....
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Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room 23 Jun 2013 | 08:06 pm
Can a computer think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that it can't. Daniel Dennett is not convinced. He thinks that Searle's thought experiment is what he cal...
Links to Bites interviews by Theme and by Interviewee 14 Jun 2013 | 02:12 am
Links to Bites Interviews by Theme Links to Bites Interviews Arranged Alphabetically by Interviewee These lists were compiled by Seth Adelman (@sethadelman). Thanks Seth!
An Interview with Nigel Warburton 10 Jun 2013 | 01:23 am
Nigel Warburton has recently resigned his post at the Open University, for an explanation of this and a discussion of the current state of philosophy, read Nigel Warburton, Virtual Philosopher, an int...
Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues 10 Jun 2013 | 01:18 am
How should we live? This is a basic philosophical question, but at at time when human beings' actions are devastating the environment, we need to cultivate specific virtues, green virtues. Dale Jamies...
