Podcasts - Arts and Humanities - Philosophy and the Human Situation

Philosophy and the human situation
Duration: 00:01:03
Date: 23.06.2009
Philosophy and the human situation
An introduction to this album

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Liberty and Offence
Duration: 00:18:17
Date: 23.06.2009
Liberty and Offence
Philosophy professor Jonathan Wolff discusses 19th century classical liberal thinker John Stuart Mill’s famous ‘harm’ principle

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Rousseau and Positive Freedom
Duration: 00:19:27
Date: 23.06.2009
Rousseau and Positive Freedom
Philosophy lecturer Derek Matravers explains 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s line of thought in his great work, The Social Contract

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Pro- and Anti-Regan Debate
Duration: 00:12:03
Date: 23.06.2009
Pro- and Anti-Regan Debate
Rosalind Hursthouse and Derek Matravers cover, in the form of a debate, the Regan argument developed by Tom Regan, animal rights professor.

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Ethics, Animals, and the Environment
Duration: 00:22:05
Date: 23.06.2009
Ethics, Animals, and the Environment
Oxford University Philosophy Professor Roger Crisp discusses specific moral questions concerning ethics, animals and the environment

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Wonder
Duration: 00:19:43
Date: 23.06.2009
Wonder
Influential philosopher of aesthetics Ronald Hepburn explains in his talk, ‘Wonder’, why wonder has haunted him over many decades

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Who Is The Earth?
Duration: 00:26:31
Date: 23.06.2009
Who Is The Earth?
Moral philosopher Mary Midgley delivers a talk concerning differing and changing attitudes to our planet and our environmental responsibilities

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Taking Stock
Duration: 00:15:47
Date: 23.06.2009
Taking Stock
Bioethicist Janet Radcliffe Richards gives a talk entitled 'Taking Stock' focusing on the definition of philosophy and problems surrounding study of the subject

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Artificial Intelligence
Duration: 00:20:42
Date: 23.06.2009
Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy professor Tim Crane explains what he sees to be the main philosophical issues in the area of Artificial Intelligence

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The New Argument from Design
Duration: 00:18:09
Date: 23.06.2009
The New Argument from Design
Physics professor Russell Stannard re-examines the claim he made 10 years ago about the way the universe seems mysteriously to have been geared up for producing life

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Faith and Reason
Duration: 00:15:49
Date: 23.06.2009
Faith and Reason
Calvinist theologian Paul Helm argues that differences between one religion and another, or between some religion and no religion, can be rationally held

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Environmental Values
Duration: 00:31:24
Date: 23.06.2009
Environmental Values
Philosophy lecturer Chris Belshaw discusses environmental philosophy and distinguishes between ways in which it has been claimed that aspects of the environment can be valuable

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Functionalism about the mind
Duration: 00:37:21
Date: 23.06.2009
Functionalism about the mind
Philosophy lecturer Alex Barber discusses two materialist positions - mind-brain identity theory and behaviourism – out of which functionalism developed in the last century

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