Philosophy Podcast
By ABC Radio National
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The Philosopher's Zone is where they congregate, but you'll find philosophers cropping up across RN. Late Night Live's Phillip Adams is fond of talking to them and philosophy, whether natural, moral or metaphysical, is never far away from RN, where your world unfolds.
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Remembering together | We feel we should be able to recall all sorts of things at will—but how often do our individual memories fail us? As part of a study on social memory, a group of cognitive psychologists and philosophers heard the shared histories of long term married | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reframe | Sydney author Eric Knight wrote a book called Reframe: How to solve the world's trickiest problems, in which he explains ways of finding a solution to problems. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Privacy and the internet: AC Grayling | In a digital age, privacy is a complicated issue. Technology provides more and more ways in which information about a person can be accessed. Two weeks ago, we brought you news that the British government plans to extend state surveillance to the internet | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Secular Bible | THE SECULAR BIBLE: He bills himself as 'the maker' not the author of The Good Book, a Secular Bible, but philosopher AC Grayling is no shrinking violet when it comes to claiming that his magnum opus for atheists should take its place alongside t | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rollie Busch Memorial Lecture: Nancey Murphy | Philosophical dualism has been with us for a long time. It’s one of the key components of Western thought: good and evil, masculine and feminine, subject and object, and the big one for this week’s program—mind and body. Nancey Murphy is a Christian | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ethics of Kevin Rudd's heart | This program was first broadcast on 6 August 2011. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 7: The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran | Natasha Mitchell has interviewed many of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on the mind over the past decade, and one the most creative is acclaimed neuroscientist and polymath of the brain Professor V.S Ramachandran. Next week, All in the Mind swaps | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The evil of the Daleks | This program was first broadcast on 18 June 2011. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 6: The Power of Forgiveness | Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was on South Africa's historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chairing many of its tortuous public hearings about atrocities committed in the apartheid era. In an unprecedented dialogue she met with one of a | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meeting Martha Nussbaum | This program was first broadcast on 20 August 2011. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How do octopuses think? | This program was first broadcast on 9 April 2011. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An atheist's God: the paradox of Spinoza | THIS PROGRAM WAS FIRST BROADCAST ON 4 June 2011. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On authenticity - Beate Roessler | Strangers, people from other countries immigrating to our territory, endangering our authentic culture, destroying what is valuable, good and familiar. But do they and does that idea make any sort of sense at all? And if we can’t talk about the authe | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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God is...? But God is not...? | It matters what kind of God you believe in and in contemporary Indonesia the answers to these questions are worked out even in politics and public life. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The trials and tribulations of private Bradley Manning | We’ve heard a lot in recent times about the legal wrangles of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange but there is another Wikileaker facing life in prison who has been given much less attention: Private Bradley Manning. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking t | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How common sense fails us | How reliable is common sense in decision making? And do we understand less about the world of human behaviour than we think? Dr Duncan Watts argues that our tendency to use common sense to try and understand the world and to steer a future course often e | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The morality of robo-wars: PW Singer | These days, you can go to war without shouldering a pack and carrying a rifle: you can take out the enemy’s installations (and, indeed, take out the enemy) just sitting in an office not far from home. But what are the ethics of a war fought for us by | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Dennett on human consciousness and free will | This week on The Philosopher's Zone we meet one of the foremost thinkers of our time. | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The artist and the philosopher - Gustav Klimt and Ludwig Wittgenstein | In the last decades of the Hapsburg empire, from 1895 to 194, the city of Vienna was opulent, elegant and daring. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pascal's Wager - betting on God | This week on The Philosopher's Zone we're wagering on God. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Intelligence Squared Debate: Atheists Are Wrong | In recent years the champions of atheism have been quick to point to the evils done in the name of religion and to claim that their criticism is grounded in the demands of reason. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ethics of War | Is war a neccessary evil in the protection of human rights? | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jewish philosophy: Martin Buber | Martin Buber was born in pre-Nazi Austria and emigrated to Israel in 1938 where he spent much of the rest of his life. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jewish philosophy: Moses Mendelssohn | Moses Mendelssohn scandalised his more pious fellow 18th century Germans when he said: 'My religion recognises no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths.' This week we look | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jewish philosophy: Maimonides | Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides, became a hugely important figure in that great era of Moorish cultural flourishing, 12th century Spain (Cordoba). | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Confucianism in China | The teachings and philosophies of Confucius,the great Chinese sage, held sway across China for centuries, until Mao Zedong criticised him as a preacher of feudal mentality and slave morality. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Everything you think you know about the collapse of the Soviet Union is wrong! | As Leon Aron sees it all of the conventional explanations for the demise of the Soviet Union missed one vital aspect - human dignity. | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jewish philosophy: Overview part 2 | In part two of our introduction we take up the story during the 17th century, with the great European thinker Baruch Spinoza. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jewish philosophy: Overview part 1 | We begin this series with an introduction to Jewish philosophy, from Ancient times onwards - an attempt to explore some of the key thinkers and recurring philosophical questions. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slavoj Zizek | Slavoj Zizek has been described as more a phenomenon than a philosopher. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mind of Jacques Lacan | Jacques Marie Emile Lacan, who died in 1981, was a French psychoanalyst and follower of Freud, but his influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of psychiatry: to philosophy, critical theory, literary theory, sociology, feminist theory, film theory | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zombies and consciousness | Zombies have been enjoying a bit of a revival, lately (though perhaps 'enjoy', which implies inner consciousness, is not the word we want here). | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philosothon 2011 - the first Australasian high school philosophy competition | The Philosothon is an event that encourages high school students to investigate ethical and other philosophical questions in the context of 'communities of inquiry'. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The medieval Islamic philosopher Averroes | Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd, better known in the Latin West as Averroes, is one of the greater thinkers in the Islamic/Arabic tradition. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meeting Martha Nussbaum | This week, we meet one of the foremost philosophers of the age: Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A message in a bottle: encounters with Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger | Paul Celan is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century, as important in the pantheon of German language poets as Goethe and Holderlin. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Philosophical Baby - Alison Gopnik | THIS PROGRAM WAS FIRST BROADCAST IN JANUARY 2011. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethics classes in public schools | Professor Peter Vardy from Heythrop College at London University is a regular visitor to Australia and a passionate promoter of the importance of ethics is the school curriculum. | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ethics of Kevin Rudd's heart | Inserting a cow valve into Kevin Rudd's heart is is not a new medical technique but is it part of a general move towards xenotransplantation. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The moral judgment of psychopaths | Our guest this week says psychopaths are rarely high functioning corporate executives with a taste for downsizing. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tree of Life - The cinema of Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick is, perhaps, unique: a film director who is well-trained in philosophy and who has published an English translation of a book by the great German philosopher Martin Heidegger. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Media Mess Age | As Radio National acknowledges the centenary of the birth of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the Night Air listens to the great thinker speak (and sing) as he massages our minds into new shapes. | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The conservative Marshall McLuhan | Since the 1960s, McLuhan famously avoided taking what he called a 'moralistic' stance on the goodness or badness of electric media. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate change, geoengineering and the perfect moral storm | A perfect storm is an unusual convergence of independently harmful factors whose convergence is likely to result in substantial, possibly catastrophic, negative outcomes. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The puzzlement of Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great Anglo-Austrian philosopher, who died fifty years ago this year, often looked puzzled. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CLASSIC LNL: The Twilight of American Culture | Among the signs that America is a culture in decline, Morris Berman cites its citizens' love of capitalism, their belief in globalisation, the increasingly large gap between rich and poor, people's fascination with celebrity culture, and their i | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High school philosophy | The Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools has a vision of schools around Victoria stimulating open and inquiring communities of philosophical exploration, in which students develop the art of questioning and acquire conceptual and reasoning tool | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The evil of the Daleks | They are among the most loved, or most feared, villains in science fiction. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CLASSIC LNL: Corrupting The Youth | A discussion about the history of philosophical argument in Australia, the impact on social and political movements and the way it has helped shape the Australian character. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Atheist God: Spinoza's Laws of Religion and Politics | Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was born in 1632 and died in 1677 and of all the philosophers of the 17th century, perhaps none have more relevance today than he. | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
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