philosophy bites

325 Bites interviews arranged by theme and by interviewee

325 Bites interviews arranged by theme (updated Nov. 2014).

325 Bites interviews arranged by interviewee (updated Nov. 2014).

Thanks to Seth Adelman for these lists.

Bites Interviewees an alphabetical list of links (with Twitter names)

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

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

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

085 Wendy Brown on Tolerance

 

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

151 Noël Carroll on Humour

221 Noël Carroll on Humour and Morality

 

Peter Cave (@flossopher)

076 Peter Cave on Paradoxes

 

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

S24 Gregory Clark on Names

 

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

168 Tim Crane on Animal Minds

 

Roger Crisp

010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism

079 Roger Crisp on Virtue

 

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)

105 Sabine Döring on Emotion

 

Danny Dorling (@dannydorling)

S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality

 

Michael Dummett (1925-2011)

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

 

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

047 Raimond Gaita on Torture

 

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

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

 

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

S11 Daniel Kahneman on Bias

 

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

S12 Doreen Massey on Space

 

Derek Matravers (@DerekMatravers)

046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art

 

Simon May

154 Simon May on Love

 

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

041 Hugh Mellor on Time

 

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

011 Adrian Moore on Infinity

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

186 Onora O'Neill on Trust

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)

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

 

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

144 Paul Russell on Fate

 

Alan Ryan

206 Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History

 

S

 

Michael Sandel

145 Michael Sandel on Justice

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

006 Barry Smith on Wine

 

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

198 Michael Tye on Pain

 

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)

034 Mark Vernon on Friendship

 

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):

139 What is Philosophy?

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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Bites podcast links arranged thematically

(updated 26 November 2012) NB this list will be updated regularly. Thanks Seth!

 

About Philosophy

139 What is 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

170 Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction

133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

 

History and Biography

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

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

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

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

042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

109 John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Treatise

025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

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

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

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

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

052 Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

148 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey

019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

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

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

072 M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method

124 Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic

031 Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments

157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

164 Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason

076 Peter Cave on Paradoxes

032 Barry Stroud on Scepticism

042 A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

075 Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

165 Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief

 

Language, Meaning and Truth

136 Michael Dummett on Frege

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

175 Guy Longworth on J.L. Austin and Ordinary Language

195 Rae Langton on Hate Speech

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

011 Adrian Moore on Infinity

092 Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy

183 Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

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

041 Hugh Mellor on Time

193 Huw Price on Backward Causation

082 Christopher Shields on Personal Identity

101 Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

013 David Papineau on Physicalism

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

144 Paul Russell on Fate

102 Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

126 David Chalmers on the Singularity

161 Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument

 

Religion

018 Peter Adamson on Avicenna

104 Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées

056 Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics

062 John Dunn on Locke on Toleration

F03 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

049 Peter Millican on Hume's Significance

153 Paul Russell on David Hume's Treatise

025 Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design

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

021 Tim Crane on Mind and Body

204 Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man Thought Experiment

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

168 Tim Crane on Animal Minds

135 Daniel Everett on the Nature of Language

157 Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

121 Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self

019 Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

030 Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions

105 Sabine Döring on Emotion

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

198 Michael Tye on Pain

026 Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love

154 Simon May on 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

044 Thomas Pink on Free Will

144 Paul Russell on Fate

111 Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions

060 Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency

093 Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

185 Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will

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

 

Theories about Ethics

145 Michael Sandel on Justice

017 Brad Hooker on Consequentialism

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

097 Thomas Hurka on Pleasure

010 Roger Crisp on Mill’s Utilitarianism

159 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

163 Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

096 Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics

079 Roger Crisp on Virtue

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

029 Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism

122 Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century

191 Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism

156 John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

 

New Approaches to Ethics

098 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology

133 Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy

S08 Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology

094 Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor

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

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

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

186 Onora O'Neill on Trust

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

188 Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics

064 John Broome on Weighing Lives

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

 

Ways of Living

129 Susan Wolf on Meaning In Life

167 Sean Kelly on Homer on Philosophy

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

004 John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

034 Mark Vernon on Friendship

081 Alexander Nehamas on Friendship

E09 Roger Scruton on Sex and Perversion

154 Simon May on Love

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?

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

169 Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability

090 Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

 

Art, Beauty and Taste

046 Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art

134 Cynthia Freeland on Portraits

007 Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

151 Noël Carroll on Humour

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

006 Barry Smith on Wine

 

Social Relations and Society

S02 Rom Harré on What is Social Science?

S03 Richard Sennett on Co-Operation

005 Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

048 Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures

S07 Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes

E11 Brenda Almond on the Family

S05 Sonia Livingstone on Children and the Internet

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

S04 Avner de-Shalit on the Spirit of Cities

S09 Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature

 

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

S01 Danny Dorling on Inequality

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

117 Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health

E13 James Garvey on Climate Change

 

Political Values

116 Tzvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment Today

051 Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty

F03 Irshad Manji on Islam and Free Expression

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

085 Wendy Brown on Tolerance

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

 

Legal Principles and Practices

174 Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

M03 Martha Nussbaum on Disgust

066 Matthew Kramer on Legal 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

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

 

Political States and Their Actions

045 Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism

068 Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince

110 Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics

047 Raimond Gaita on Torture

023 Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

113 Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

037 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics

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

 

This list was compiled by Seth A. Adelman.

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