Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 led her to reflect on the nature of politics, truth, and plurality. , author of a biography of Arendt, discusses the context for this, and the key features of Arendt's views. We are...
David Edmonds has co-authored a children's book, Undercover Robot. Here in this bonus episode (originally released on the Thinking Books podcast) he discusses it with Nigel Warburton.
Baruch Spinoza was perhaps most famous for his equation of God with Nature - a view that his contemporaries, probably correctly, took to be atheist. But what did he think about death? Steven Nadler, author of A Book Forged in Hell and Think Least of...
In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Cornell philosopher discusses the notions of misogyny, male entitlement, and the term that she coined 'himpathy' with Nigel Warburton.
Verificationists believe that every meaningful statement is either true by definition or else empirically verifiable (or falsifiable). Anything which fails to pass this two-pronged test for meaningfulness is neither true nor false, but literally...
For this special episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (produced under lockdown) Nigel Warburton interviews David Edmonds about his bestselling book, written with David Edinow, Wittgenstein's Poker. It focuses on a heated argument between the...
For this first of two special lockdown episodes of Philosophy Bites we interviewed each other. Here David Edmonds interviews Nigel Warburton about his bestseller A Little History of Philosophy. In the companion episode Nigel interviews David about his...
has recently published a biography of , the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only 26, but who nevertheless made a significant impact in several different fields including philosophy, mathematics, and economics. In this episode of the...
Philip Goff discusses some of Galileo's insights into the nature of matter. He then goes on to discuss his own view about consciousness, panpsychism. Goff believes that matter is conscious at some level.
In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, recorded before the Covid-19 lockdowns, the political philosopher explains why we need to be prepared to talk more, even with people with whom we strongly disagree.
What is free will? Do we have it? These are difficult questions. Neuroscience seems to point in the direction of determinism. But suggests that there might still be room for genuine free will.
Some philosophers have drawn very strange conclusions about the nature of reality. Despite this believes that their work may still be worth studying. They usually have had good reasons for what they concluded. In this episode of the podcast she...
Are thought experiments the best way of doing practical ethics? Not according to . He thinks we need the rich detail of real cases or complex imaginary cases not a simplified version of reality to make sense of the moral problems we face. We are...
In this episode of the , , author of a new biography of Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir, discusses the relationship between the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir is often portrayed as applying Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism to the condition...
'What is a woman?' has become a contentious question with practical implications. The philosopher gives an account of the category 'woman' and how we should think about it. She gives a different answer to this question which Amia Srinivassan...
believes that there is a character gap, a gap between what we think we are like morally and how we actually behave. In this episode of the podcast he explores the psychology of moral behaviour, and how we can become better people. We are...
Where did ethics come from? tells an 'as if' story about the birth of ethics that is designed to illuminate what ethics is and why it evolved on this episode of the podcast. We are grateful for support from the and from Patreon donors for this...
Philosophers often talk about possible worlds. Is this just a way of describing counterfactual situations? As explains, some of them believe that possible worlds actually exist. This episode of the podcast is supported by the and by Patreon...
Throughout its history there have been challenges to the status of philosophy. discusses some of these in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. We are grateful for support from the in making this podcast, and for donations from Patreon...
Is it always good to be trustworthy? Can trustworthiness come into conflict with other values, such as generosity? discusses these and other questions about trustworthiness with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the podcast. We are grateful...