Bites interviewees and their podcasts
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
A
Marilyn McCord Adams
103 Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil
Peter Adamson (@HistPhilosophy)
067 Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment
Brenda Almond
E11 Brenda Almond on the Family
Anthony Appiah (@KAnthonyAppiah)
078 Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics
043 Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
John Armstrong
107 John Armstrong on What Can You Do With Philosophy?
Catalin Avramescu
113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism
B
Julian Baggini (@microphilosophy)
031 Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments
Sarah Bakewell (@Sarah_Bakewell)
149 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne
Tim Bayne
203 Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consciousness
Helen Beebee
141 Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature
Simon Blackburn
001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave
016 Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
244 Simon Blackburn on Narcissism
Ned Block (@De_dicto)
123 Ned Block on Consciousness
Paul Boghossian (@paulboghossian)
166 Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism
Emma Borg
234 Emma Borg on Language and Context
Nick Bostrom
161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
184 Nick Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias
Richard Bourke
037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
Luc Bovens
160 Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV
Richard Bradley
111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions
John Broome
064 John Broome on Weighing Lives
Wendy Brown
Pascal Bruckner
152 Pascal Bruckner on Happiness
Allen Buchanan
099 Allen Buchanan on Enhancement
Myles Burnyeat
028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
C
Craig Calhoun (@craigjcalhoun)
S23 Craig Calhoun on Protest Movements
John Campbell
109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
208 John Campbell on Schizophrenia
Clare Carlisle
070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Noël Carroll
221 Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality
Peter Cave (@flossopher)
David Chalmers
126 David Chalmers on the Singularity
Clare Chambers
M04 Clare Chambers on Justifying Intervention
Pat Churchland (@patchurchland)
128 Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism
233 Pat Churchland on Self Control
196 Pat Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality
Gregory Clark
Tony Coady
110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics
G.A. Cohen (1941-2009)
033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
John Cottingham
004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life
Edward Craig
009 Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?
Tim Crane (@timcrane102)
199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence
021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body
Roger Crisp
010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism
Molly Crockett (@mollycrockett)
194 Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral-Decision Making
Don Cupitt (@DonCupitt)
086 Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God
115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher
Valerie Curtis
S19 Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
Fiery Cushman (@fierycushman)
187 Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck
D
Jonathan Dancy
191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism
Norman Daniels
243 Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare
Stephen Darwall
240 Stephen Darwall on Moral Accountability
Angus Deaton
S21 Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality
Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
027 Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
172 Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.0
007 Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture
Daniel Dennett (@danieldennett)
220 Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
197 Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
Avner de-Shalit
S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities
Donna Dickenson
058 Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
Jonathan Dimbleby (@dimbleby_jd)
F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship
Sabine Döring (@sabinedoering)
Danny Dorling (@dannydorling)
S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality
Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
Robin Dunbar
S20 Robin Dunbar on Dunbar Numbers
John Dunn
062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013)
176 Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value
E
David Eagleman (@davideagleman)
155 David Eagleman on Morality and the Brain
David Edmonds (@DavidEdmonds100)
225 David Edmonds on Trolley Problems
Daniel Everett
135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language
F
Cécile Fabre
146 Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War
Kit Fine
171 Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?
Luciano Floridi (@Floridi)
102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
Gary L. Francione (@garylfrancione)
201 Gary L. Francione on Animal Abolitionism
Sarah Franklin (@sbrooksfranklin)
S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies
Nancy Fraser
M10 Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism
Cynthia Freeland
134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits
Miranda Fricker
005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice
E04 Miranda Fricker on Blame And Historic Injustice
G
Raimond Gaita
John Gardner
213 John Gardner on Constitutions
Sebastian Gardner
093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith
Timothy Garton Ash (@fromTGA)
F09 Timothy Garton Ash on Global Free Speech
James Garvey
E13 James Garvey on Climate Change
Raymond Geuss
080 Raymond Geuss on Real Politics
125 Raymond Geuss on Realism and Utopianism in Political Philosophy
Simon Glendinning (@lonanglo)
218 Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)
Jonathan Glover
165 Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief
147 Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality
David Goldblatt (@Davidsgoldblatt)
S27 David Goldblatt on the Sociology of Football
Alison Gopnik (@AlisonGopnik)
226 Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination
A.C. Grayling (@acgrayling)
042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
114 A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions
012 Anthony Grayling on Atheism
083 A.C. Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime
Les Green (@ljmgreen)
217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage
H
Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt)
S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
Henry Hardy
029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
Rom Harré
230 Rom Harré on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?
Alan Haworth
M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism
Angie Hobbs (@drangiehobbs)
026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
Bruce Hood (@profbrucehood)
S26 Bruce Hood on the Supernatural
Brad Hooker
017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism
Jennifer Hornsby
060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency
John Horton
M08 John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism
Thomas Hurka
I
Michael Ignatieff (@M_Ignatieff)
241 Michael Ignatieff on Political Theory and Political Practice
Terence Irwin
096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics
J
Frank Jackson
162 Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew
Susan James
030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
Dale Jamieson
219 Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues
Christopher Janaway
077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
K
Daniel Kahneman
Natalia Kaliada (@BelFreeTheatre)
F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus
Sean Kelly (@Sean_D_Kelly)
167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy
Anthony Kenny
022 Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy
056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics
Matthew Kieran
E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality
Joshua Knobe
133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
Matthew Kramer
066 Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
Chandran Kukathas
052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism
M02 Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism
089 Chandran Kukathas on Genocide
Will Kymlicka
061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
L
Nicola Lacey
237 Nicola Lacey on H.L.A. Hart and Legal Positivism
173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility
Melissa Lane
169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability
065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
Rae Langton
195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech
Stephen Law (@stephenlaw60)
003 Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil
Brian Leiter (@BrianLeiter)
170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction
108 Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths
Jerrold Levinson
119 Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
Neil Levy
177 Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness
Tim Lewens
190 Tim Lewens on Selling Organs
Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S)
S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet
Guy Longworth (@GuyLongworth)
175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language
M
Ma Jian
F10 Ma Jian on Free Expression in China
Catherine MacKinnon
150 Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime
Fiona Macpherson (@ProfMacpherson)
212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination
Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane)
F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine
Noel Malcolm
215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
Irshad Manji (@IrshadManji)
F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression
Michael Martin
223 Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
Doreen Massey
Derek Matravers (@DerekMatravers)
046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
Simon May
M.M. McCabe
088 M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry
072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method
Colin McGinn
210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
Jeff McMahan
180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status
127 Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism
211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control
112 Jeff McMahan on Killing in War
Angela McRobbie (@angelamcrobbie)
S16 Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women
Hugh Mellor
148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey
Susan Mendus
M09 Susan Mendus on Toleration
Stephanie Merritt
F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
John Mikhail
156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality
David Miller
M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism
050 David Miller on National Responsibility
Toby Miller (@greencitizen)
S10 Toby Miller on Cultural Studies
Peter Millican
049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
Tariq Modood (@TariqModood)
M01 Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism
Ray Monk (@Raymodraco)
073 Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography
Adrian Moore
179 Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History
075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
231 Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
Jessica Moss
224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will
Stephen Mulhall
039 Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
N
Stephen Neale
130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
Alexander Nehamas
081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship
Alex Neill
069 Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
Susan Neiman
122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century
Richard Norman
038 Richard Norman on Humanism
E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?
Martha Nussbaum
143 Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities
M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust
O
Ann Oakley
S14 Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
Alex Oliver
E08 Alex Oliver on Business Ethics
Onora O’Neill
024 Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent
Michael Otsuka (@MikeOtsuka)
E03 Michael Otsuka on Trolleys, Killing And Double Effect
P
David Papineau (@davidpapineau)
091 David Papineau on Scientific Realism
013 David Papineau on Physicalism
239 David Papineau on Philosophy and Sport
Philip Pettit
163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism
142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency
181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism
Anne Phillips
008 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism
M05 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism
084 Anne Phillips on Political Representation
Nick Phillipson
140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like
Hanna Pickard
192 Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder
Kate Pickett (@ProfKEPickett)
S17 Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality
Thomas Pink (@thomaspink1)
Steven Pinker (@sapinker)
S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
Thomas Pogge
117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health
Richard Posner
E10 Richard Posner on Copyright
Huw Price
193 Huw Price on Backward Causation
R
Janet Radcliffe Richards
048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures
E07 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Organ Transplants
Jonathan Rée
020 Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art
Richard Reeves (@RichardvReeves)
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
Aaron Ridley
071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
Regina Rini
245 Regina Rini on the Moral Self and Psychology
Ben Rogers (@ben_rog)
104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées
Gideon Rosen
138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility
Adina Roskies
185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
Mark Rowlands (@mnjrowlands)
214 Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running
Martin Rowson (@MartinRowson)
F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons
Paul Russell
153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
Alan Ryan
206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History
S
Michael Sandel
055 Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport
100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
Saskia Sassen (@SaskiaSassen)
S25 Saskia Sassen on Before Method
Jennifer Saul
232 Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias
Julian Savulescu (@juliansavulescu)
094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor
178 Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies
Tim Scanlon
059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech
235 T.M. Scanlon on What's Wrong with Inequality
Samuel Scheffler
222 Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
Philip Schofield
174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
Eric Schwitzgebel
227 Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
Roger Scruton
E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion
Paul Seabright
S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
Richard Sennett
S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation
Lawrence Sherman
S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology
Christopher Shields
082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
Robert Shiller (@RobertJShiller)
S06 Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
Peter Singer (@PeterSinger)
159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics
053 Peter Singer on Using Animals
132 Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save
182 Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
106 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God
098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology
Quentin Skinner
068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
John Skorupski
236 John Skorupski on Normativity
Barry Smith (@smithbarryc)
035 Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
074 Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience
Robert Rowland Smith (@RRSphilosopher)
063 Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
Paul Snowdon
101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
Kate Soper
090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism
Richard Sorabji
200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
Tom Sorell
209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance
Dan Sperber
164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason
Hillel Steiner
131 Hillel Steiner on Exploitation
Robert Stern
124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic
Tom Stoneham (@tomstoneham)
242 Tom Stoneham on George Berkeley's Immaterialism
Galen Strawson (@gstrawson)
183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self
Barry Stroud
032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism
David Stuckler (@davidstuckler)
S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
Stewart Sutherland
025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
T
Victor Tadros
158 Victor Tadros on Punishment
Robert Talisse (@RobertTalisse)
229 Robert Talisse on the Importance of Argument in Politics
118 Robert Talisse on Pragmatism
Raymond Tallis
087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides
095 Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying
John Tasioulas (@JTasioulas)
228 John Tasioulas on Human Rights
DJ Taylor
F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell
Tzvetan Todorov
116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today
John Tomasi
189 John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness
Richard Tuck
040 Richard Tuck on Free Riding
Michael Tye
U
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (@mangabeiraunger)
S22 Roberto Mangabeira Unger on What is Wrong with the Social Sciences Today
238 Roberto Mangabeira Unger on Deep Freedom
V
Mark Vernon (@platospodcasts)
Alex Voorhoeve
137 Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality
W
Kendall Walton
207 Kendall Walton on Photography
Keith Ward
092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy
Mary Warnock
002 Mary Warnock on Philosophy and Public Life
019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
057 Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby
Timothy Williamson
014 Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
Susan Wolf
129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life
Jonathan Wolff
188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics
054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
015 Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage
Y
Liane Young
202 Liane Young on Mind and Morality
Z
Zarganar
F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression
Anthologies (multiple interviewees):
205 Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?
Statistics:
226 interviewees (3 deceased)
Five interviewees have done 4 podcasts each
(A.C. Grayling, Jeff McMahan, Adrian Moore, Peter Singer and Jonathan Wolff).
Thirteen interviewees have done 3 podcasts each
(Peter Adamson, Simon Blackburn, Pat Churchland, Tim Crane, Alain de Botton, Chandran Kukathas, Melissa Lane, David Papineau, Philip Pettit, Anne Phillips, Michael Sandel, Barry Smith and Mary Warnock).
And 33 interviewees have done 2 podcasts each.
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