Philosophy Bites

David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer)

Episodes

Total: 386

Philosophers often talk about possible worlds. Is this just a way of describing counterfactual situa

Throughout its history there have been challenges to the status of philosophy. Paul Sagar discusses

Is it always good to be trustworthy? Can trustworthiness come into conflict with other values, such

Teresa Bejan on Civility

2018/8/20

Civility is a conversational virtue that governs how people talk to each other. How important is it

You can overdo most things, but can you overdo democracy? Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse th

Robert Wright believes that there are a number of key tenets of Buddhism which are both compatible w

How can we best help other people? Peter Singer has argued that we should give aid. Despite a lifeti

Do states have a moral right to exclude people from their territory? It might seem obvious that stat

How do I know I'm not dreaming? This sort of question has puzzled philosophers for thousands of year

What is a robustly demanding good, and what has that got to do with friendship and love? Find out in

Philosophers talk about 'knowing how' and 'knowing what'. But what is involved in knowing a person?

Are human beings fundamentally different from the rest of the animal world? Can what we essentially

The Hard Problem of consciousness is the difficulty of reconciling experience with materialism. In t

Why does apparently trivial ritual play such an important part in some ancient Chinese philosophy? M

What is Art? That's not an easy question to answer. Some philosophers even think it can't be answere

The process of dying can be horrible for many, but is there anything bad about death itself? The obv

We certainly disagree about aesthetic judgments in a range of cases. But is anyone right? Is there  

Andy Clark, who with David Chalmers proposed the theory of the extended mind, explains what he means

Why do we have art at all? There must be some evolutionary explanation. In this episode of the Aesth

In this episode of  Aesthetics Bites, Eileen John discusses some of the ways that art explores moral