This is a list of links that might be helpful.
Philosophy Bites Index
Philosophy Bites: Index
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For each assigned item, please write a brief summary of what you got from it in your course blog. Try to cover the main points raised in the interview. Also, be sure to list your interpretive and/or evaluative about the discussion.
I do not expect you to follow every bit of the conversation. These are abstruse topics discussed by highly educated experts. Your careful attention to these conversations will reward you greatly the more you persist in sitting in on such sessions. What I will look for in your blog is evidence of careful listening and active questioning.
1. Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave
2. Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life
3. Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil
4. John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life
5. Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice
7. Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture
8. Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism
9. Edward Craig on What is Philosophy?
10. Roger Crisp on Mill's Utilitarianism
12. Anthony Grayling on Atheism
13. David Papineau on Physicalism
14. Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
15. Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage
16. Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
17. Brad Hooker on Consequentialism
19. Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
20. Jonathan Rée on Philosophy as an Art
21. Tim Crane on Mind and Body
22. Anthony Kenny on his History of Philosophy
23. Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
24. Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent
25. Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
26. Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
27. Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
28. Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
29. Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
30. Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
31. Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments
32. Barry Stroud on Scepticism
33. G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
35. Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
36. Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
37. Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
38. Richard Norman on Humanism
39. Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
40. Richard Tuck on Free Riding
42. A.C.Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
43. Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
45. Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism
46. Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
48. Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures
49. Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
50. David Miller on National Responsibility
51. Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty
52. Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism
53. Peter Singer on Using Animals (originally on Ethics Bites)
54. Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation
55. Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport (originally on Ethics Bites)
56. Anthony Kenny on Aquinas's Ethics
57. Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby (originally on Ethics Bites)
58. Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping
59. Tim Scanlon on Free Speech (originally on Ethics Bites)
60. Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency
61. Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
62. John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
63. Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
64. John Broome on Weighing Lives
65. Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
66. Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
67. Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
68. Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
69. Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
70. Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
71. Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
72. MM McCabe on Socratic Method
73. Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography
74. Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience
75. Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
76. Peter Cave on Paradoxes77. Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality78. Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics79. Roger Crisp on Virtue Ethics80. Raymond Geuss on Real Politics81. Alexander Nehamas on Friendship82. Christopher Shields on Personal Identity83. A.C. Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime84. Anne Phillips on Political Representation85. Wendy Brown on Tolerance86. Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God87. Raymond Tallis on Parmenides88. M.M. McCabe on The Paradox of Inquiry89. Chandran Kukathas on Genocide90. Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism91. David Papineau on Scientific Realism92. Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy