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Links to Bites interviews by Theme and by Interviewee

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

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 interview with James Garvey for The Philosophers Magazine.

Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues

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 Jamieson outlines some of these virtues in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues

 

Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)

Philosophers typically see themselves as either Analytic or Continental. How did these two cultures within philosophy emerge? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Simon Glendinning diagnoses the division, what he calls 'the culture of two cultures' . 

Listen to Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures 

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Les Green on Same Sex Marriage

Are there any reasonable objections to same sex marriage? Leslie Green discusses this issue in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to Les Green on Same Sex Marriage

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John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

Hitting someone without their consent, spitting at someone, or throwing a ball hard at their head: these are all examples of what in Tort Law is called battery. John Mikhail thinks that  our judgments that people who commit battery are blameworthy reveals someting important about morality and its sources. 

Listen to John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

Listen to John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

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Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, published in 1651, is one of the great works of political philosophy. Noel Malcolm has recently published a 3 volume scholarly edition of the book (reviewed here in The Economist) based on decades of research. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he discusses Leviathan's historical context with Nigel Warburton.

Listen to Noel Malcolm on Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

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Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

Is there a connection between philosophy and running? Mark Rowlands thinks there is. He began running to exercise his pet wolf, but is now hooked. In this conversation with Nigel Warburton at the Words by the Water  Festival in Keswick, he discusses what running shows us about emodiment and intrinsic value. 

Listen to Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

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John Gardner on Constitutions

What are constitutions? How are we to interpret them? John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, addresses these questions in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to John Gardner on Constitutions

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Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

What is a hallucination? How does it differ from an illusion? Why does it matter? Fiona Macpherson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is director of The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (which has its own Facebook page here), discusses these questions with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

Listen to Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

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Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

The question of whether private gun ownership is reasonable polarises opinion, particulary in the United States. Jeff McMahan examines the arguments in conversation with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

Read a New York Times article by Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

Earlier Philosophy Bites interviews with Jeff McMahan:

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy 

Updated list of Bites Interviews by theme

Bites podcast links arranged by theme

updated 4th May 2013

 

New features:

--261 distinct titles

--10 new podcasts added: episodes 211 (gun control), 212 (hallucination), S13 (reproductive technology), 213 (constitutions), 214 (running), S14 (childbirth), 215 (Hobbes' Leviathan), 216 (battery), S15 (criminology) and F10 (Ma Jian).

--the first two sections on ethics are renamed “Traditional Ethical Theories” and “Recent Approaches to Ethics.” The episodes on moral particularism and universal moral grammar are moved to the latter section, and the podcast on disgust is added there.

--episode 197 (Dennett on free will) is added to the section on Existence and Reality.

--the title of episode 153 (Hume's philosophy of irreligion) is corrected.

--the labels for all the Free Speech Bites podcasts now match the order listed on the FSB website.

 

About Philosophy

139 What is Philosophy?

009 Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?

020 Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art

027 Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy

143 Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities

107 John Armstrong on What Can You Do With Philosophy?

002 Mary Warnock on Philosophy and Public Life

170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction

133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

 

History and Biography

205 Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?

179 Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History

022 Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy

073 Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography

167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy

087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides

072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

088 M.M. McCabe on (Plato’s) Paradox of Inquiry

026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics

079 Roger Crisp on (Aristotle on) Virtue

028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness

115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne

F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno

023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion

025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization

140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like

075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic

048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on (Mill on) Men and Women's Natures

010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation

159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

108 Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey

F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell

019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language

120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness

 

Knowledge, Thought and Belief

001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

088 M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry

210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic

031 Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments

157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

S11 Daniel Kahneman on Bias

164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason

076 Peter Cave on Paradoxes

032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism

212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

165 Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

 

Language, Meaning and Truth

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence

035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey

118 Robert Talisse on Pragmatism

175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language

195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech

130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation

014 Timothy Williamson on Vagueness

135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

 

Existence and Reality

171 Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?

087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides

067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil

011 Adrian Moore on Infinity

092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy

183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence

091 David Papineau on Scientific Realism

141 Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature

041 Hugh Mellor on Time

193 Huw Price on Backward Causation

082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

013 David Papineau on Physicalism

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

144 Paul Russell on Fate

197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting

102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

126 David Chalmers on the Singularity

161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

 

Religion

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression

070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

003 Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

103 Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil

215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion

025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

086 Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God

115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

012 Anthony Grayling on Atheism

106 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God

038 Richard Norman on Humanism

172 Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0

 

Body and Mind

082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

013 David Papineau on Physicalism

162 Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew

203 Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consciousness

123 Ned Block on Consciousness

128 Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism

074 Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience

208 John Campbell on Schizophrenia

212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

168 Tim Crane on Animal Minds

135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self

019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

105 Sabine Döring on Emotion

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

198 Michael Tye on Pain

026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

154 Simon May on Love

E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion

048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures

102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

126 David Chalmers on the Singularity

161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

 

Decision Making and Responsibility

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

144 Paul Russell on Fate

111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions

S11 Daniel Kahneman on Bias

060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency

093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will

138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility

177 Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness

147 Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality

192 Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder

173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility

155 David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain

197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting

142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency

050 David Miller on National Responsibility

 

Traditional Ethical Theories

145 Michael Sandel on Justice

017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism

159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics

079 Roger Crisp on Virtue

028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness

152 Pascal Bruckner on Happiness

056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

166 Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

016 Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism

E04 Miranda Fricker on Blame And Historic Injustice

029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century

 

Recent Approaches to Ethics

191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism

156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology

133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

S11 Daniel Kahneman on Bias

S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology

094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

187 Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck

202 Liane Young on Mind and Morality

078 Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics

E03 Michael Otsuka on Trolleys, Killing And Double Effect

194 Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral-Decision Making

196 Pat Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality

 

Ethics of Health and Medicine

180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

057 Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby

E11 Brenda Almond on the Family

S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies

178 Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies

099 Allen Buchanan on Enhancement

184 Nick Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias

055 Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport

058 Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold

E07 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Organ Transplants

190 Tim Lewens on Selling Organs

186 Onora O'Neill on Trust

024 Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent

160 Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV

182 Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making

095 Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying

188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics

064 John Broome on Weighing Lives

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

 

Ways of Living

122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century

129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life

167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy

214 Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne

F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

034 Mark Vernon on Friendship

081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion

154 Simon May on Love

063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness

200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?

211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

053 Peter Singer on Using Animals

127 Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

201 Gary L. Francione on Animal Abolitionism

113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

040 Richard Tuck on Free Riding

132 Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth

E13 James Garvey on Climate Change

169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

 

Art, Beauty and Taste

046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art

134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits

207 Kendall Walton on Photography

007 Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

151 Noël Carroll on Humour

F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons

F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression

069 Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy

071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth

039 Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy

E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality

119 Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros

006 Barry Smith on Wine

 

Free Expression and Its Impact

135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation

149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne

197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression

059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech

F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine

F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell

F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship

M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism

F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons

195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech

E10 Richard Posner on Copyright

E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality

F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno

F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression

F10 Ma Jian on Free Expression in China

F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus

200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

F09 Timothy Garton Ash on Global Free Speech

 

Social Relations and Society

S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?

S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation

005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures

S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes

S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies

S14 Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

E11 Brenda Almond on the Family

S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet

209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

S10 Toby Miller on Cultural Studies

S12 Doreen Massey on Space

S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities

S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature

 

Resources and Exchange

140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like

065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization

054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation

052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

189 John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness

015 Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage

S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality

137 Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality

033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth

M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism

S06 Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics

142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency

E08 Alex Oliver on Business Ethics

131 Hillel Steiner on Exploitation

100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold

064 John Broome on Weighing Lives

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

E13 James Garvey on Climate Change

 

Political Values

116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression

206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History

181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism

120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

080 Raymond Geuss on Real Politics

125 Raymond Geuss on Realism and Utopianism in Political Philosophy

043 Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

008 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

M01 Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism

061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

M02 Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

M09 Susan Mendus on Toleration

085 Wendy Brown on Tolerance

M05 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism

M04 Clare Chambers on Justifying Intervention

M08 John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism

M10 Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism

M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism

029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

176 Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value

 

Legal Principles and Practices

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

066 Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights

209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance

216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech

F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship

M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism

195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech

E10 Richard Posner on Copyright

130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation

213 John Gardner on Constitutions

138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility

173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility

150 Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?

158 Victor Tadros on Punishment

S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

 

Political States and Their Actions

045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics

047 Raimond Gaita on Torture

F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus

023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

213 John Gardner on Constitutions

206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History

181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism

084 Anne Phillips on Political Representation

036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

146 Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War

112 Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

083 A.C. Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime

089 Chandran Kukathas on Genocide

050 David Miller on National Responsibility

 

 

This list was compiled by Seth A. Adelman. To offer feedback, please contact Nigel (via email or comments on his website) or Seth (biteslist AT comcast DOT net).

 

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Bites Interviews in Alphabetical Order (by Interviewee)

Bites interviewees and their podcasts

updated 4th May 2013

 

A

 

Marilyn McCord Adams

103 Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

 

Peter Adamson

067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

 

Brenda Almond

E11 Brenda Almond on the Family

 

Anthony Appiah

078 Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics

043 Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

 

John Armstrong

107 John Armstrong on What Can You Do With Philosophy?

 

Catalin Avramescu

113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

 

B

 

Julian Baggini

031 Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments

 

Sarah Bakewell

149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne

 

Tim Bayne

203 Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consciousness

 

Helen Beebee

141 Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature

 

Simon Blackburn

001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

016 Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism

 

Ned Block

123 Ned Block on Consciousness

 

Paul Boghossian

166 Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism

 

Nick Bostrom

161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

184 Nick Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias

 

Richard Bourke

037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

 

Luc Bovens

160 Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV

 

Richard Bradley

111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions

 

John Broome

064 John Broome on Weighing Lives

 

Wendy Brown

085 Wendy Brown on Tolerance

 

Pascal Bruckner

152 Pascal Bruckner on Happiness

 

Allen Buchanan

099 Allen Buchanan on Enhancement

 

Myles Burnyeat

028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness

 

C

 

John Campbell

109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

208 John Campbell on Schizophrenia

 

Clare Carlisle

070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

 

Noël Carroll

151 Noël Carroll on Humour

 

Peter Cave

076 Peter Cave on Paradoxes

 

David Chalmers

126 David Chalmers on the Singularity

 

Clare Chambers

M04 Clare Chambers on Justifying Intervention

 

Pat Churchland

128 Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism

196 Pat Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality

 

Tony Coady

110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics

 

G.A. Cohen (1941-2009)

033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth

 

John Cottingham

004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

 

Edward Craig

009 Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?

 

Tim Crane

199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence

021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body

168 Tim Crane on Animal Minds

 

Roger Crisp

010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism

079 Roger Crisp on Virtue

 

Molly Crockett

194 Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral-Decision Making

 

Don Cupitt

086 Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God

115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

 

Fiery Cushman

187 Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck

 

D

 

Jonathan Dancy

191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism

 

Alain de Botton

027 Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy

172 Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0

007 Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

 

Daniel Dennett

197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting

 

Avner de-Shalit

S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities

 

Donna Dickenson

058 Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping

 

Jonathan Dimbleby

F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship

 

Sabine Döring

105 Sabine Döring on Emotion

 

Danny Dorling

S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality

 

Michael Dummett (1925-2011)

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

 

John Dunn

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

 

Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013)

176 Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value

 

E

 

David Eagleman

155 David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain

 

Daniel Everett

135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

 

F

 

Cécile Fabre

146 Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War

 

Kit Fine

171 Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?

 

Luciano Floridi

102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

 

Gary L. Francione

201 Gary L. Francione on Animal Abolitionism

 

Sarah Franklin

S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies

 

Nancy Fraser

M10 Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism

 

Cynthia Freeland

134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits

 

Miranda Fricker

005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

E04 Miranda Fricker on Blame And Historic Injustice

 

G

 

Raimond Gaita

047 Raimond Gaita on Torture

 

John Gardner

213 John Gardner on Constitutions

 

Sebastian Gardner

093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

 

Timothy Garton Ash

F09 Timothy Garton Ash on Global Free Speech

 

James Garvey

E13 James Garvey on Climate Change

 

Raymond Geuss

080 Raymond Geuss on Real Politics

125 Raymond Geuss on Realism and Utopianism in Political Philosophy

 

Jonathan Glover

165 Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

147 Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality

 

Alison Gopnik

157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

 

A.C. Grayling

042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

012 Anthony Grayling on Atheism

083 A.C. Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime

 

H

 

Jonathan Haidt

S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology

 

Henry Hardy

029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

 

Rom Harré

S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?

 

Alan Haworth

M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism

 

Angie Hobbs

026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

 

Brad Hooker

017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

 

Jennifer Hornsby

060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency

 

John Horton

M08 John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism

 

Thomas Hurka

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

 

I

 

Terence Irwin

096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics

 

J

 

Frank Jackson

162 Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew

 

Susan James

030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

 

Christopher Janaway

077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

 

K

 

Daniel Kahneman

S11 Daniel Kahneman on Bias

 

Natalia Kaliada

F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus

 

Sean Kelly

167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy

 

Anthony Kenny

022 Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy

056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

 

Matthew Kieran

E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality

 

Joshua Knobe

133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

 

Matthew Kramer

066 Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights

 

Chandran Kukathas

052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

M02 Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism

089 Chandran Kukathas on Genocide

 

Will Kymlicka

061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

 

L

 

Nicola Lacey

173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility

 

Melissa Lane

169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization

045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

 

Rae Langton

195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech

 

Stephen Law

003 Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

 

Brian Leiter

170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction

108 Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

 

Jerrold Levinson

119 Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros

 

Neil Levy

177 Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness

 

Tim Lewens

190 Tim Lewens on Selling Organs

 

Sonia Livingstone

S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet

 

Guy Longworth

175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language

 

M

 

Ma Jian

F10 Ma Jian on Free Expression in China

 

Catherine MacKinnon

150 Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

 

Fiona Macpherson

212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination

 

Denis MacShane

F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine

 

Noel Malcolm

215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context

 

Irshad Manji

F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression

 

Doreen Massey

S12 Doreen Massey on Space

 

Derek Matravers

046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art

 

Simon May

154 Simon May on Love

 

M.M. McCabe

088 M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry

072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

 

Colin McGinn

210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

 

Jeff McMahan

180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

127 Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control

112 Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

 

Hugh Mellor

148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey

041 Hugh Mellor on Time

 

Susan Mendus

M09 Susan Mendus on Toleration

 

Stephanie Merritt

F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno

 

John Mikhail

156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality

 

David Miller

M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism

050 David Miller on National Responsibility

 

Toby Miller

S10 Toby Miller on Cultural Studies

 

Peter Millican

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

 

Tariq Modood

M01 Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism

 

Ray Monk

073 Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography

 

Adrian Moore

179 Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History

075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

011 Adrian Moore on Infinity

 

Stephen Mulhall

039 Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy

 

N

 

Stephen Neale

130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation

 

Alexander Nehamas

081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

 

Alex Neill

069 Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy

 

Susan Neiman

122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century

 

Richard Norman

038 Richard Norman on Humanism

E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?

 

Martha Nussbaum

143 Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

 

O

 

Ann Oakley

S14 Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

 

Alex Oliver

E08 Alex Oliver on Business Ethics

 

Onora O’Neill

186 Onora O'Neill on Trust

024 Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent

 

Michael Otsuka

E03 Michael Otsuka on Trolleys, Killing And Double Effect

 

P

 

David Papineau

091 David Papineau on Scientific Realism

013 David Papineau on Physicalism

 

Philip Pettit

163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency

181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism

 

Anne Phillips

008 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

M05 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism

084 Anne Phillips on Political Representation

 

Nick Phillipson

140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like

 

Hanna Pickard

192 Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder

 

Thomas Pink

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

 

Steven Pinker

S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature

 

Thomas Pogge

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

 

Richard Posner

E10 Richard Posner on Copyright

 

Huw Price

193 Huw Price on Backward Causation

 

R

 

Janet Radcliffe Richards

048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures

E07 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Organ Transplants

 

Jonathan Rée

020 Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art

 

Richard Reeves

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

 

Aaron Ridley

071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth

 

Ben Rogers

104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

 

Gideon Rosen

138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility

 

Adina Roskies

185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will

 

Mark Rowlands

214 Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running

 

Martin Rowson

F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons

 

Paul Russell

153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion

144 Paul Russell on Fate

 

Alan Ryan

206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History

 

S

 

Michael Sandel

145 Michael Sandel on Justice

055 Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport

100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold

 

Julian Savulescu

094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor

178 Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies

 

Tim Scanlon

059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech

 

Philip Schofield

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

 

Roger Scruton

E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion

 

Paul Seabright

S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes

 

Richard Sennett

S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation

 

Lawrence Sherman

S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

 

Christopher Shields

082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

 

Robert Shiller

S06 Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics

 

Peter Singer

159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

053 Peter Singer on Using Animals

132 Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

182 Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making

 

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

106 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God

098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology

 

Quentin Skinner

068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

 

Barry Smith

035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

074 Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience

006 Barry Smith on Wine

 

Robert Rowland Smith

063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness

 

Paul Snowdon

101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

 

Kate Soper

090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

 

Richard Sorabji

200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

 

Tom Sorell

209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance

 

Dan Sperber

164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason

 

Hillel Steiner

131 Hillel Steiner on Exploitation

 

Robert Stern

124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic

 

Galen Strawson

183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self

 

Barry Stroud

032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism

 

Stewart Sutherland

025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

 

T

 

Victor Tadros

158 Victor Tadros on Punishment

 

Robert Talisse

118 Robert Talisse on Pragmatism

 

Raymond Tallis

087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides

095 Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying

 

DJ Taylor

F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell

 

Tzvetan Todorov

116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today

 

John Tomasi

189 John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness

 

Richard Tuck

040 Richard Tuck on Free Riding

 

Michael Tye

198 Michael Tye on Pain

 

V

 

Mark Vernon

034 Mark Vernon on Friendship

 

Alex Voorhoeve

137 Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality

 

W

 

Kendall Walton

207 Kendall Walton on Photography

 

Keith Ward

092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy

 

Mary Warnock

002 Mary Warnock on Philosophy and Public Life

019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

057 Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby

 

Timothy Williamson

014 Timothy Williamson on Vagueness

 

Susan Wolf

129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life

 

Jonathan Wolff

188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics

054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation

120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

015 Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage

 

Y

 

Liane Young

202 Liane Young on Mind and Morality

 

Z

 

Zarganar

F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression

 

 

Statistics:

197 interviewees (3 deceased)

 

Four interviewees have done 4 podcasts each

(A.C. Grayling, Jeff McMahan, Peter Singer and Jonathan Wolff).

 

Eleven interviewees have done 3 podcasts each

(Peter Adamson, Tim Crane, Alain de Botton, Chandran Kukathas, Melissa Lane, Adrian Moore, Philip Pettit, Anne Phillips, Michael Sandel, Barry Smith, and Mary Warnock).

 

And 28 interviewees have done 2 podcasts each.

 

This list was compiled by Seth A. Adelman. To offer feedback, please contact Nigel (via email or comments on his website) or Seth (biteslist AT comcast DOT net).

This list was compiled by Seth A. Adelman

(biteslist AT comcast DOT net)

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