Bites podcast links arranged by theme
updated 13th June 2014
compiled by Seth Adelman
Key to numbering:
xxx (3 digit number) = Philosophy Bites (including 4 Ethics Bites and all Bio-Ethics Bites podcasts)
Exx = the other Ethics Bites podcasts
Mxx = Multiculturalism Bites
Sxx = Social Science Bites
Fxx = Free Speech Bites
About Philosophy
009 Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?
020 Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art
027 Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
143 Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities
107 John Armstrong on What Can You Do With Philosophy?
002 Mary Warnock on Philosophy and Public Life
218 Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)
170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction
133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
227 Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
History and Biography
205 Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?
179 Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History
022 Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy
073 Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography
167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy
087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides
072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method
001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave
088 M.M. McCabe on (Plato’s) Paradox of Inquiry
026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability
045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will
096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics
079 Roger Crisp on (Aristotle on) Virtue
028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher
067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment
056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics
068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne
F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées
062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
242 Tom Stoneham on George Berkeley's Immaterialism
109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
226 Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
223 Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like
075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine
174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic
048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on (Mill on) Men and Women's Natures
010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics
108 Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths
077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions
035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
230 Rom Harré on (Wittgenstein's) Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism
148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey
F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell
019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith
237 Nicola Lacey on H.L.A. Hart and Legal Positivism
029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language
120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
231 Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
Knowledge, Thought and Belief
001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave
088 M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry
210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination
042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism
072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method
124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic
157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination
031 Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments
220 Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
S26 Bruce Hood on the Supernatural
049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason
005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice
232 Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias
229 Robert Talisse on the Importance of Argument in Politics
165 Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief
Language, Meaning and Truth
114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions
199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence
035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey
118 Robert Talisse on Pragmatism
230 Rom Harré on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language
236 John Skorupski on Normativity
195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech
234 Emma Borg on Language and Context
130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
014 Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language
Existence and Reality
171 Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?
087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides
067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy
242 Tom Stoneham on George Berkeley's Immaterialism
109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions
199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence
091 David Papineau on Scientific Realism
141 Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature
193 Huw Price on Backward Causation
082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment
021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body
183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
013 David Papineau on Physicalism
197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
126 David Chalmers on the Singularity
161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
Religion
204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment
092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy
104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées
056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics
062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression
070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
003 Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil
103 Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil
067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
226 Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence
086 Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God
115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher
012 Anthony Grayling on Atheism
106 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God
038 Richard Norman on Humanism
172 Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0
Body and Mind
082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status
101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment
021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body
230 Rom Harré on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
013 David Papineau on Physicalism
162 Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew
203 Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consciousness
123 Ned Block on Consciousness
128 Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism
074 Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience
208 John Campbell on Schizophrenia
212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination
S26 Bruce Hood on the Supernatural
135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language
220 Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination
121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self
226 Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
S19 Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion
048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures
102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
126 David Chalmers on the Singularity
161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
Decision Making and Responsibility
111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions
060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency
093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith
224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will
233 Pat Churchland on Self Control
185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
240 Stephen Darwall on Moral Accountability
138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility
177 Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness
147 Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality
192 Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder
173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility
155 David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain
197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency
050 David Miller on National Responsibility
Traditional Ethical Theories
236 John Skorupski on Normativity
017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism
174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism
159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics
163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism
228 John Tasioulas on Human Rights
096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics
028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
152 Pascal Bruckner on Happiness
056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics
077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
166 Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism
016 Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
E04 Miranda Fricker on Blame And Historic Injustice
231 Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
176 Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value
122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century
Recent Approaches to Ethics
245 Regina Rini on the Moral Self and Psychology
227 Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism
156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality
098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology
133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
S19 Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor
M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust
187 Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck
202 Liane Young on Mind and Morality
078 Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics
E03 Michael Otsuka on Trolleys, Killing And Double Effect
225 David Edmonds on Trolley Problems
194 Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral-Decision Making
196 Pat Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality
Ethics of Health and Medicine
180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status
057 Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby
E11 Brenda Almond on the Family
S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies
178 Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies
099 Allen Buchanan on Enhancement
184 Nick Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias
055 Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport
058 Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
E07 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Organ Transplants
190 Tim Lewens on Selling Organs
024 Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent
160 Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV
182 Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making
095 Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying
S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
243 Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare
188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics
064 John Broome on Weighing Lives
117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health
S21 Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality
Ways of Living
122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century
129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life
167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy
214 Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running
239 David Papineau on Philosophy and Sport
072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method
149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne
F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
244 Simon Blackburn on Narcissism
004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life
222 Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship
E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion
217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage
063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?
211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control
053 Peter Singer on Using Animals
127 Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism
201 Gary L. Francione on Animal Abolitionism
113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism
040 Richard Tuck on Free Riding
132 Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save
033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
E13 James Garvey on Climate Change
219 Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues
169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability
090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism
Art, Beauty and Taste
223 Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits
207 Kendall Walton on Photography
007 Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture
221 Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality
F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons
F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression
069 Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
039 Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality
119 Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
Free Expression and Its Impact
135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language
S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation
149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne
197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression
059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech
F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine
F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell
F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship
M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism
F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons
195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech
E10 Richard Posner on Copyright
E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality
F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression
F10 Ma Jian on Free Expression in China
F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus
200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
S23 Craig Calhoun on Protest Movements
F09 Timothy Garton Ash on Global Free Speech
Social Relations and Society
S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?
S25 Saskia Sassen on Before Method
196 Pat Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality
S19 Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
S20 Robin Dunbar on Dunbar Numbers
S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation
229 Robert Talisse on the Importance of Argument in Politics
005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice
232 Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias
048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures
S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
S16 Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women
217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage
S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies
S14 Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
E11 Brenda Almond on the Family
S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet
209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance
M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust
S10 Toby Miller on Cultural Studies
S27 David Goldblatt on the Sociology of Football
S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities
S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology
S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
S23 Craig Calhoun on Protest Movements
S22 Roberto Mangabeira Unger on What is Wrong with the Social Sciences Today
Resources and Exchange
140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like
065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism
120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
189 John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness
015 Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage
235 T.M. Scanlon on What's Wrong with Inequality
S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality
S17 Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality
137 Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality
033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism
S06 Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency
E08 Alex Oliver on Business Ethics
131 Hillel Steiner on Exploitation
100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
064 John Broome on Weighing Lives
S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
243 Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare
188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics
117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health
S21 Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality
E13 James Garvey on Climate Change
090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism
Political Values
116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression
206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History
181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism
120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
080 Raymond Geuss on Real Politics
125 Raymond Geuss on Realism and Utopianism in Political Philosophy
043 Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
008 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism
M01 Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism
061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
M02 Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism
062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
M09 Susan Mendus on Toleration
M05 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism
M04 Clare Chambers on Justifying Intervention
M08 John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism
M10 Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism
M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism
029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
176 Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value
238 Roberto Mangabeira Unger on Deep Freedom
Legal Principles and Practices
237 Nicola Lacey on H.L.A. Hart and Legal Positivism
174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust
217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage
240 Stephen Darwall on Moral Accountability
228 John Tasioulas on Human Rights
066 Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance
216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality
211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control
061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech
F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship
M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism
195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech
E10 Richard Posner on Copyright
130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
213 John Gardner on Constitutions
138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility
173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility
150 Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime
E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?
158 Victor Tadros on Punishment
155 David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain
S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology
Political Organization and Practice
045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
241 Michael Ignatieff on Political Theory and Political Practice
110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics
F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus
023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism
037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
213 John Gardner on Constitutions
206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History
181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism
084 Anne Phillips on Political Representation
036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
146 Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War
112 Jeff McMahan on Killing in War
083 A.C. Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime
089 Chandran Kukathas on Genocide
050 David Miller on National Responsibility
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