Everyday Philosophy from Prospect Magazine
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Podcast Description
Each month ,Prospect Magazine's resident philosopher Nigel Warburton explores an issue from the news from a philosophical perspective. For more from Nigel Warburton and prospect visit www.prospect-magazine.co.uk
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CleanEveryday Philosophy: Nigel Warburton on the value of Philosophy | In the brave new cost-benefit world of university cuts, how will Philosophy fare? While knowing your Wittgenstein might not generate huge sums for the national economy, studying philosophy does impart marketable skills. Still, the subject's ultimate value surely resides in less quantifiable goods... | 30 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on humour | Norman Wisdom once observed that "People will always find the sight of someone falling or spilling something funny." He's probably right, but why is that? Prospect’s resident philosopher investigates philosophy's underwhelming attempts to get to grips with comedy | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday Philosophy: Nigel Warburton on the good, the bad and the lucky | As Tate Modern prepares to unveil its blockbuster exhibition, “Gauguin: maker of myth”, Prospect’s resident philosopher considers what role luck plays in moral judgement. Had Gauguin been an artistic failure, would he have been a worse person? | 27 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on God's get-out | Prospect's resident philosopher looks at natural disasters and the arguments for and against an ll-powerful, all-loving God. Might the science of global warming prove a paradoxical victory for true believers? | 31 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on keeping it real | Prospect's resident philosopher Nigel Warburton looks at authenticity and fakery in art, and asks whether a Botticelli by any other name can look as beautiful | 23 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on philosophy and holidays | Prospect's resident philosopher Nigel Warburton explains why a vacation may be the perfect time to start reading philosophy: and why some unlikely reading may help the rest of life make a little more sense too | 30 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on Envy | Nigel Warburton on the unenviable position of being envied | 4 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on excuses and apologies | Prospect's resident philosopher examines the nature of excuses in the light of Jean Paul Sartre, JL Austin and the Catholic church's recent scandals. | 29 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton examines politicians and broken promises | In his April podcast for Prospect, Nigel Warburton considers the philsoophical status of a promise in the context of Kant, Machiavelli and Britain's wannabe prime-ministers | 18 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton asks what's so special about God | Nigel Warburton's March philosophy column for Prospect explores the friction between law and religion via Kant, Kierkegaard and Britain's first Asian judge | 25 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on China, John Stuart Mill, Plato and censorship | Nigel Warburton's February philosophy column for Prospect asks whether 2010 will be the year of the censor—and looks at Mill, Plato and the arguments for and against free expression through history. | 28 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton on punishment, justice and memory | Nigel Warburton's January column for Prospect magazine explores the problems of punishment, identity and memory in the light of the recent trials of American student Amanda Knox and of John Demjanjuk, and John Locke's philosophy of identity. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton on Sartre, Kant, imaginary crustaceans and the truth about drugs | Nigel Warburton's December column for Prospect magazine explores the controversy over David Nutt's sacking, drugs policy, and what Kant and Sartre might make of the obligation to tell the truth at all times. | 20 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton on Confucius, Cicero, the Tories and the comforts of age | Nigel Warburton's November column for Prospect magazine asks how, with people living ever longer, a government can reconcile the pragmatic need to provide with the dignity philosopher's from Confucius and Cicero to the present have hoped to find in old age. | 16 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton asks whether politicians must always have dirty hands | Nigel Warburton's October column for Prospect magazine explores the ethics of releasing the Lockerbie bomber, and whether politicians' hands can ever be entirely clean | 21 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday philosophy: Nigel Warburton on Stoicism, cricket, rain and running | Nigel Warburton's September column for Prospect magazine explores Stoicism, cricket, the weather and biomedical enhancement | 28 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJacko and Jean-Paul Sartre: Nigel Warburton explores the links between Michael Jackson's death and existentialism | Jacko and Jean-Paul Sartre: Nigel Warburton explores the links between Michael Jackson's death and existentialism. Prospect's August edition also includes interviews with Patrick Marber (author of Closer) and Zoe Heller (Notes on a Scandal), and photos of some of the last hunter-gatherers of the Amazon rainforest. | 20 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton puts the BNP's recent electoral success in philosophical context | In the light of the BNP's recent electoral success, our resident philosopher Nigel Warburton considers the role of racism in politics and philosophy. How prejudiced were the great philosophers of history? | 29 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton considers the role of shame in politics | In this month’s Prospect podcast our resident philosopher Nigel Warburton considers the merits of shame as a motivating force in politics. When politicians are found to have done wrong, should we expect more from them than public apologies and a display of contrition? | 26 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton considers the case for thrift as a virtue | Nigel Warburton, our resident philosopher, considers the case for thrift as a virtue in the light of Alistair Darling's budget. | 29 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNigel Warburton considers the nature of gifts and gift-giving | Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in philosophy at The Open University, and Prospect Magazine's our resident philosopher, considers the nature of gifts and gift-giving. | 25 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEveryday Philosophy from Prospect Magazine, February edition | Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in philosophy at The Open University, and Prospect Magazine's our resident philosopher, asks 'What if God was on a bus?' | 24 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 22 Episodes |
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