Listen to my podcast on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism (12 mins 58 sec). This is part of my ongoing podcast of my book Philosophy: The Classics (3rd ed.).
Listen to Roger Crisp on Philosophy Bites on Mill's Utilitarianism
The best books on utilitarianism that I know are shown below:
I interviewed Judge Richard Posner, author of an interesting book on Plagiarism (read my review here) for the Open University's Ethics Bites podcast. Unfortunately the ISDN line to Chicago was a bit crackly...There is also a transcript available.
Richard Reeves, author of an interesting new biography of John Stuart Mill, has some interesting thoughts on what Mill might have made of uses of his Harm Principle today in an interview for Spiked. Thanks to the superb Arts and Letters Daily for the link!
I interviewed Richard Reeves recently on Mill's On Liberty for a forthcoming episode of Philosophy Bites
You can now listen to my interview with Harvard Professor Michael Sandel on the ethics of using genetic enhancement in sports on Ethics Bites (a transcript is also available). You can also read a blog post I wrote for the Open University site Open2.net.
Michael Sandel's summary of the main themes of his book The Case Against Perfection.
Listen to Michael Sandel interviewed about Genetic Enhancement and Sport for Ethics Bites
Anthony Appiah, author of the excellent book Cosmpolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, explains how he believes it is possible to combined universalism about ethics with acknowledgement and celebration of difference...This is part of the podcast Philosophy Bites. David Edmonds introduces the interview.
My interview with Michael Ostsuka on Trolleyology is now available as an episode of the Open University podcast Ethics Bites.
Listen to Michael Otsuka on Trolleyology (a transcript is also available).
I have also written a short piece on this on the Open2.net blog
It is not clear to me how it is possible to live up to the latest UN pronouncement on free speech. You can read a Reuters' Report on this here.
If all those who speak, write, express their views have to respect all religious sensitivities, then what can anyone say? Some religious group is likely to be offended by almost any expression of a view. Does the UN want to stop us watching The Life of Brian, Jerry Springer the Opera, etc? Will atheists have to keep quiet about their beliefs for fear of offending religious sensitivities? Watch out Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and co. And how does all this square with the US First Amendment?
Philip Hensher wrote an interesting piece in The Guardian on this topic in 2006.
The podcast Ethics BItes is now available from the 'Philosophy' section of iTunes which is a subsection of 'Society and Culture' within the 'Podcasts' area. It is also available with additional material from www.open2.net. So far you can download interviews with Peter Singer and Mary Warnock. From Wednesday, an interview with Michael Ostuka will there. The series has 14 episodes, released weekly.
My previous post about Ethics Bites.
Julian Baggini has a nice review of Slavoj Zizek's new and rather light-headed book Violence in the THES here. He gets Zizek spot on when he writes about 'The futility of the free play of paradoxes without quality control', though is more generous than I would be about the virtues of the book.
Read my earlier comment on this blog on Zizek on Violence
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