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Philosophy Bites - More than 1.5 Million Downloads

Philosophy Bites has been downloaded more than one and a half million times in just over a year!

Listen to the latest episode: Nigel Warburton interviews Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights.

Philosophy Bites One Year Old Today!

We have just posted the 52nd episode of our Philosophy Bites podcast series:

Listen to Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

A year into the series and the download figures are amazing - beyond anything we expected. And we are currently at no. 15 of the US iTunes top 100 podcasts.

Readership of leading UK political magazine, The New Statesman, 26,000
Attendance at today's Liverpool v Manchester City, 43,074
Last week's downloads for Philosophy Bites, 56,633

Podcast on Mill's On Liberty

Richard Reeves, author of a recent biography of John Stuart Mill, is the interviewee on this episode of Philosophy Bites:

Listen to Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

Read 'Mill is Dead White Male with Something to Say'

Philosophy Bites Podcast - Half Century!

We have now posted 50 episodes of Philosophy Bites the series of podcast interviews with top philosophers (also available on iTunes)...if you include the interviews we've released on the Open University sponsored Ethics Bites, the total is 60.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed of Philosophy Bites here.

The 50th episode of Philosophy Bites, posted today, is David Miller on National Responsibility.

The total number of downloads to date is 1,192,071. Thank you to our subscribers and thank you for all the messages of support and encouragement. Thanks too to our excellent contributors.

David Hume WAS an atheist

Hume specialist Peter Millican is the interviewee for the latest episode of Philosophy Bites on the topic of David Hume's Significance. In the course of the interview Peter explains why he believes that Hume died an atheist...

Listen to Peter Millcan on Hume's Significance

For textual evidence of Hume's Atheism, see this post (added April 27th)

Peter Millican has also provided a very detailed linked bibliography on David Hume:

Peter Millican's Bibliography on Hume

My thoughts on Alan Ramsay's portraits of Hume and Rousseau

Philosophy Bites has had more than a million downloads!

Philosophy BItes, the weekly podcast series of interviews with philosophers that I started with David Edmonds less than a year ago has already had more than a million downloads! Of course not everyone who downloads listens to what they download any more than people who buy books all read them. But it has to indicate a serious interest in Philosophy worldwide. Perhaps as gratifying is the stream of fan emails that we are getting from all over the world. There are people listening to us as they drive to work in Australia, as they walk through the streets of Tokyo, and as they do the washing up in small towns across the USA. Thanks very much for your encouragement.

Here are links to the first 44 episodes...

1. Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

2. Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life

3. Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

4. John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

5. Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

6. Barry Smith on Wine

7. Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

8. Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

9. Edward Craig on What is Philosophy?

10. Roger Crisp on Mill's Utilitarianism

11. Adrian Moore on Infinity

12. Anthony Grayling on Atheism

13. David Papineau on Physicalism

14. Timothy Williamson on Vagueness

15. Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage

16. Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism

17. Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

18. Peter Adamson on Avicenna

19. Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

20. Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art

21. Tim Crane on Mind and Body

22. Anthony Kenny on his History of Philosophy

23. Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

24. Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent

25. Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

26. Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

27. Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy

28. Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness

29. Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

30. Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

31. Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments

32. Barry Stroud on Scepticism

33. G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth

34. Mark Vernon on Friendship

35. Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy

36. Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

37. Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

38. Richard Norman on Humanism

39. Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy

40. Richard Tuck on Free Riding

41. Hugh Mellor on Time

42. A.C.Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

43. Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

44. Thomas Pink on Free Will

 

Anthony Appiah interview on Cosmopolitanism

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.

Listen to Anthony Appiah interviewed on Cosmopolitanism

A.C. Grayling Discusses Descartes' Cogito

A.C. Grayling discusses Descartes' Cogito argument in this week's episode of Philosophy Bites.

Listen to Anthony Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

Podcast of Hugh Mellor on Time and Tense

You can listen to Hugh Mellor explaining why time is not tensed here. This is an episode of the podcast series Philosophy Bites.

Richard Tuck on Free Riding - on Philosophy Bites podcast

The Free Rider Problem has been much discussed by philosophers and economists...Richard Tuck has an original line on it.

Listen to Richard Tuck on Free Riding