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Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

Alexander Nehamas discusses the nature and value of friendship in this Philosophy Bites interview with Nigel Warburton. Nehamas maintains that understanding a friend can be like understanding a work of art.

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Raymond Geuss on Real Politics

Raymond Geuss wants political philosophers to focus on real politics. In this interview  for Philosophy Bites  he explains why he believes philosophers such as Robert Nozick and John Rawls were fundamentally misguided in the way they approached political philosophy. Geuss is in conversation with Nigel Warburton. The introduction is by David Edmonds.

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Roger Crisp on Virtue

What is a virtue? Is ethics a matter of cultivating appropriate virtues, patterns of behaviour prized by particular people at a particular time? Roger Crisp discusses the nature of virtue in this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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Oxford University podcast about Philosophy Bites

David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton interviewed about 'Philosophy Bites' (also available in the Oxford University 'Oxonians' section of iTunesU).

Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics

In this interview for Philosophy Bites Anthony Appiah explains how experiments in psychology can be relevant to our ethical reasoning.

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Listen to Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism (earlier on Philosophy Bites)