microphilosophy
By Julian Baggini
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Podcast Description
where big thoughts come in small packages
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Warnock on religion | In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Mary Warnock about her latest book, Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics. The interview was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas. | 7 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside the minds of animals | In his book, In Defence of Dogs, John Bradshaw provides a fascinating insight into the inner life of dogs, raising issues of consciousness and animal ethics. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Humanity 2.0 | As homo sapiens develops more and more technologies for changing itself, what will, and should, the humans of the future look like? (Photo: (CC) Nat Ireland) | 4 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Lust for Certainty | Do we suffer from a lust for certainty? This is an edited version of a talk given to a Sea of Faith Network conference in London earlier this year. | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Gray on Immortality | In this programme I talk to John Gray about some of the ideas that emerge from his latest book, The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death. The podcast was recorded at the Bristol Festival of Ideas in May, at the Arnolfini. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The most human human? | Can artificial intelligence teach us about what it means to be human? That is the fascinating question behind Brian Christian's recent book, The Most Human Human. In this programme, Julian Baggini is in conversation with Christian, recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Ideas at the Arnolfini Centre earlier this year. | 13 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New podcast series | After a hiatus, I'm replacing my Philosophy Monthly podcast with a new series, microphilosophy. Each one will be an interview, talk, discussion or feature, no longer than half an our but usually much shorter. This first edition is an interview with the philosopher and theologian Richard Swinburne, conducted for my new book, The Ego Trick. | 16 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January podcast | Recorded at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival of Literature, this discussion on Utopias features myself; editor of The Faber Book of Utopias, John Carey; and Karen O’Brien, professor of literature at Warwick University. | 7 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December podcast | This skeptical edition features founder of The Skeptic magazine, Wendy Grossman; journalist, broadcaster and writer Simon Hoggart; and psychologist Christine Mohr. Recorded at the Bristol Festival of Ideas to mark the publication of Why Statues Weep, the best from the first twenty years of The Skeptic. | 7 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September podcast | In this edition I talk to philosopher of biology John Dupré and the problems with genes, and the Nobel-prize winning Amartya Sen about the idea of Justice. Plus, guest reporter Antonia Macaro talks to John Heaton about Wittgenstein and therapy. | 1 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August podcast | This summer special is an edited recording of a discussion I chaired in April on addiction: should we penalise or treat? The panel comprised: Dr Nick Airey, an NHS psychiatrist specialising in addiction, John Moore (Criminology, University of the West of England), Dr Giles Pearson, (Philosophy, University of Bristol), Dr Jon Webber (Philosophy, Cardiff University). The event was organised by Dr Havi Carel, Philosophy, UWE and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. | 6 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July podcast | This edition includes a report from the 2010 Philosophers’ Football Match, where I talk to AC Grayling, Laurie Taylor, comedian Mark Steel, former England manager Graham Taylor, and many more. Find out what the tribute to the famous Monty Python sketch was really about. Plus, there’s an interview with historian and philosopher of science Jay Kennedy, whose claim to have cracked “The Plato Code” is provoking an international scholarly debate. Click here to listen or download now from | 7 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June podcast | This edition is all about “How to Live” and was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of Bristol Festival of Ideas in May. Joining me are John Cottingham, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Reading; Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer; and Michael Foley, author of The Age of Absurdity. | 7 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May podcast | I’m back after an April break with Daniel Dennett talking about the new atheism, and a guest report by Antonia Macaro on the relevance of stoicism for today, with interviewees Richard Sorabji and John Sellars. | 4 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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March podcast | In this four-star edition, I talk over the background hubbub of hotel bars and conference lunch tables with Jerry Fodor about what Darwin got wrong; Ben Goldacre on good philosophy and bad science; Michael Sandel on the problem with secular liberalism; and Philip Zimbardo on good people gone bad. | 8 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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February podcast | In this programme, I’m reporting on the debate surrounding the growth of the well-being agenda, and talking to the winner of the Lakatos Prize for the philosophy of Science, Samir Okasha, about evolution. | 2 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January podcast | This special edition comes from Puebla, Mexico, at the Ciudad de las Ideas (City of Ideas) festival. The guests are Randy Cohen, writer of The New York Times’s The Ethicist column; Bad Thoughts author Jamie Whyte; and “new atheist” Sam Harris. | 5 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December podcast | In the last Philosophy Monthly of 2009, I’m featuring previously unreleased extracts salvaged from the cutting room floor from six of the best interviews of the year: Michael Frayn, AC Grayling, Jonathan Sacks, Peter Singer, Timothy Williamson and Tony Wright MP | 4 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November podcast | In the latest Philosophy Monthly, I'm talking to the playwright, novelist, screenwriter and sometime philosopher, Michael Frayn, and John Armstrong, philosopher-in-residence at Melbourne Business School and the author of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Ideal. | 4 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October podcast | In the latest Philosophy Monthly, I’m talking to Timothy Williamson about the virtues of rigour, Simon Blackburn about ethics and emotion, and Nina Power about new and forthcoming books. All the books we’ve discussed in the programme are listed here. Click here to listen or download now, or download from BPM is produced by Julian Baggini in association with The Philosophers’ Magazine. | 2 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September podcast | It’s an all-atheist edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly, with novelist Christopher Brookmyer and psychologist Susan Blackmore discussing the alleged aggression of the new atheists and a universe without meaning. The ethicist Peter Singer also defends his brand of utilitarianism. | 2 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August podcast | Suffering is the unifying theme of the latest edition of Baggini's Philosophy Monthly. Is it all bad or do we need at least some it? Mark Vernon and Havi Carel argue that suffering can be part of the good life, while transhumanist Nick Bostrom makes the moral case for a future when death and disease will be conquered. Janet Radcliffe Richards also talks about suffering as a manifestly bad thing in her incisive critique of muddled morality. | 17 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 22 Episodes |
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