Bites interviewees and their podcasts
updated 16th November 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
Pxx = Practical Ethics Bites
A
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
E11 Brenda Almond on the Family
Anthony Appiah (@KAnthonyAppiah)
078 Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics
043 Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
107 John Armstrong on What Can You Do With Philosophy?
Catalin Avramescu (@c_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
203 Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consciousness
141 Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature
Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball)
247 Chris Bertram on Rousseau's Moral Psychology
001 Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave
016 Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
244 Simon Blackburn on Narcissism
123 Ned Block on Consciousness
Paul Boghossian (@paulboghossian)
166 Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism
234 Emma Borg on Language and Context
161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
184 Nick Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias
037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
160 Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV
111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions
064 John Broome on Weighing Lives
152 Pascal Bruckner on Happiness
099 Allen Buchanan on Enhancement
028 Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
C
Craig Calhoun (@craigjcalhoun)
S23 Craig Calhoun on Protest Movements
109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
208 John Campbell on Schizophrenia
070 Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
221 Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality
126 David Chalmers on the Singularity
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
110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics
G.A. Cohen (1941-2009)
033 G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life
009 Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?
199 Tim Crane on Non-Existence
021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body
010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism
P02 Roger Crisp on What Is Virtue Ethics?
Molly Crockett (@mollycrockett)
194 Molly Crockett on Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making
086 Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God
115 Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher
S19 Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
187 Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck
D
191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism
243 Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare
240 Stephen Darwall on Moral Accountability
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
S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities
058 Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
Jonathan Dimbleby (@dimbleby_jd)
F01 Jonathan Dimbleby on Free Speech and Censorship
Sabine Döring (@sabinedoering)
S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality
P07 Tom Douglas on Should We Allow Genetic Engineering on Embryos?
Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
S20 Robin Dunbar on Dunbar Numbers
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 (@amazonrambler)
135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language
F
146 Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War
171 Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?
102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
Gary L. Francione (@garylfrancione)
201 Gary L. Francione on Animal Abolitionism
Keith Frankish (@keithfrankish)
255 Keith Frankish on the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia
Sarah Franklin (@sbrooksfranklin)
S13 Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technologies
M10 Nancy Fraser on Recognition and Multiculturalism
134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits
005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice
E04 Miranda Fricker on Blame And Historic Injustice
G
213 John Gardner on Constitutions
093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith
F09 Timothy Garton Ash on Global Free Speech
E13 James Garvey on Climate Change
250 Tamar Gendler on Why Philosophers Use Examples
080 Raymond Geuss on Real Politics
125 Raymond Geuss on Realism and Utopianism in Political Philosophy
218 Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures (Analytic and Continental)
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
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (@platobooktour)
257 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Progress in Philosophy
157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination
226 Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism
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
217 Les Green on Same Sex Marriage
H
S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
S28 Sarah Harper on the Population Challenge for the 21st Century
230 Rom Harré on the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?
M07 Alan Haworth on Free Speech and Multiculturalism
026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
036 Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
254 Ted Honderich on What it is to be Conscious
S26 Bruce Hood on the Supernatural
017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism
060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency
M08 John Horton on Political Obligation and Multiculturalism
I
Michael Ignatieff (@M_Ignatieff)
241 Michael Ignatieff on Political Theory and Political Practice
096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics
J
162 Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew
030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
219 Dale Jamieson on Green Virtues
077 Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
K
Natalia Kaliada (@BelFreeTheatre)
F06 Natalia Kaliada on Free Speech and Belarus
167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy
022 Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy
056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics
E12 Matthew Kieran on Art, Censorship And Morality
133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
066 Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism
M02 Chandran Kukathas on Varieties of Multiculturalism
089 Chandran Kukathas on Genocide
061 Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
L
237 Nicola Lacey on H.L.A. Hart and Legal Positivism
173 Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility
252 Peter Lamarque on Literature and Truth
065 Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability
195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech
003 Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil
248 Seth Lazar on Sparing Civilians in War
170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction
108 Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths
119 Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
P03 Neil Levy on Free Will, and Its Connection to Moral Responsibility
177 Neil Levy on Moral Responsibility and Consciousness
190 Tim Lewens on Selling Organs
Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S)
S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet
175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language
M
F10 Ma Jian on Free Expression in China
150 Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime
Fiona Macpherson (@ProfMacpherson)
212 Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination
Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane)
F07 Denis MacShane on Thomas Paine
215 Noel Malcolm on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
F04 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression
223 Michael Martin on Hume on Taste
Derek Matravers (@DerekMatravers)
046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
088 M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry
072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method
210 Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
180 Jeff McMahan on Moral Status
127 Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism
211 Jeff McMahan on Gun Control
P06 Jeff McMahan on Is There Such a Thing as a Just War?
112 Jeff McMahan on Killing in War
Angela McRobbie (@angelamcrobbie)
S16 Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women
148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey
M09 Susan Mendus on Toleration
Stephanie Merritt (@thestephmerritt)
F02 Stephanie Merritt on Giordano Bruno
156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
216 John Mikhail on Battery and Morality
M06 David Miller on the Welfare State and Multiculturalism
050 David Miller on National Responsibility
S10 Toby Miller on Cultural Studies
049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
M01 Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism
073 Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography
179 Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History
075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
231 Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
224 Jessica Moss on Plato and Aristotle on Weakness of Will
039 Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
N
251 Jennifer Nagel on Intuitions about Knowledge
130 Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship
069 Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century
038 Richard Norman on Humanism
E06 Richard Norman on What's Wrong With Killing?
143 Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities
M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust
O
S14 Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
E08 Alex Oliver on Business Ethics
024 Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent
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
163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism
142 Philip Pettit on Group Agency
181 Philip Pettit on Republicanism
008 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism
M05 Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism and Liberalism
084 Anne Phillips on Political Representation
140 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like
192 Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder
S17 Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality
S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health
E10 Richard Posner on Copyright
193 Huw Price on Backward Causation
R
048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures
P08 Janet Radcliffe Richards on the Ethics of Sexuality
E07 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Organ Transplants
020 Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art
Richard Reeves (@RichardvReeves)
051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
071 Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
245 Regina Rini on the Moral Self and Psychology
Rebecca Roache (@rebecca_roache)
P05 Rebecca Roache on the Rights and Wrongs of Abortion
104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées
138 Gideon Rosen on Moral Responsibility
185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
214 Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running
F05 Martin Rowson on Free Speech and Cartoons
153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History
S
055 Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport
100 Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
S25 Saskia Sassen on Before Method
232 Jennifer Saul on Implicit Bias
Julian Savulescu (@juliansavulescu)
094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor
178 Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies
P04 Julian Savulescu on Choosing the Sex of Your Child
059 Tim Scanlon on Free Speech
235 T.M. Scanlon on What's Wrong with Inequality
222 Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife
174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
Eric Schwitzgebel (@11carustw)
227 Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors
246 Roger Scruton on the Sacred
E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion
S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
Richard Sennett (@richardsennett)
S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation
S15 Lawrence Sherman on Criminology
082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
Robert Shiller (@RobertJShiller)
S06 Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics
182 Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making
132 Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save
053 Peter Singer on Using Animals
106 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God
098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology
068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
236 John Skorupski on Normativity
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
101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals
090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism
200 Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
209 Tom Sorell on Surveillance
164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason
Amia Srinivasan (@amiasrinivasan)
249 Amia Srinivasan on Genealogy
131 Hillel Steiner on Exploitation
124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic
242 Tom Stoneham on George Berkeley's Immaterialism
183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self
032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism
David Stuckler (@davidstuckler)
S18 David Stuckler on Austerity and Death
025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
256 Adam Swift on Parental Partiality
T
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 (@ProfRayTallis)
087 Raymond Tallis on Parmenides
095 Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying
228 John Tasioulas on Human Rights
F08 DJ Taylor on George Orwell
116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today
189 John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness
040 Richard Tuck on Free Riding
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
137 Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality
W
207 Kendall Walton on Photography
092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy
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
Dominic Wilkinson (@NeonatalEthics)
P01 Dominic Wilkinson on Should Euthanasia Be Legal?
014 Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life
054 Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
120 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
015 Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage
188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics
Linda Woodhead (@LindaWoodhead)
S30 Linda Woodhead on the New Sociology of Religion
Y
202 Liane Young on Mind and Morality
Z
F03 Zarganar on Freedom of Expression
Anthologies (multiple interviewees):
205 Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?
Statistics:
325 podcasts
243 interviewees (3 deceased)
90 of 240 living interviewees (37.5%) have active public Twitter accounts.
One interviewee (Jeff McMahan) has recorded 5 podcasts.
Four interviewees have done 4 podcasts each
(A.C. Grayling, Adrian Moore, Peter Singer and Jonathan Wolff).
Sixteen interviewees have done 3 podcasts each
(Peter Adamson, Simon Blackburn, Pat Churchland, Tim Crane, Roger Crisp, Alain de Botton, Chandran Kukathas, Melissa Lane, David Papineau, Philip Pettit, Anne Phillips, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Michael Sandel, Julian Savulescu, Barry Smith and Mary Warnock).
And 32 interviewees have done 2 podcasts each.
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