Philosophy Bites
Philosophy Bites is a podcast series, hosted by Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds, featuring short (15–20 minute) interviews with philosophers on a specific topic. Guests include: Barry C. Smith, Simon Blackburn, A.C. Grayling, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Dummett, Tzvetan Todorov, David Chalmers and C.A.J. (Tony) Coady. The podcast has been one of the top 20 most downloaded series in the United States – and has over 16 million downloads.
 
 
 
 

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Seth Adelman has created a listing of every Philosophy Bites, Ethics BitesBioethics Bites,Mulitculturalism BitesSocial Science Bites and Free Speech Bites interviews arranged by theme for the Philosophy Bites producers Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds

 

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

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

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

224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will

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

223 Michael Martin on Hume on Taste

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

220 Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room

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

220 Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room

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

224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will

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

S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death

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

222 Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife

034 Mark Vernon on Friendship

081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion

217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage

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

219 Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues

169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

 

Art, Beauty and Taste

223 Michael Martin on Hume on 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

221 Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality

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

S16 Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women

217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage

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

S17 Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality

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

S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

E13 James Garvey on Climate Change

090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

 

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

217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage

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 – Seth (biteslist AT comcast DOT net).

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