The Philosopher's Zone Podcast
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The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy. The program addresses the big philosophical questions and arguments.
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Michael Dummett: a philosopher's philosopher
Sun, Feb 12, 2012
Michael Dummett, one of the greatest English philosophers of the twentieth century, died late in December at the age of 86.
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Philosophy and the Environment
Sun, Feb 05, 2012
In a world of environmental crisis, what can philosophy tell us? Who is qualified to pronounce on the subject and how do the institutions of science (peer-reviewed journals the like) help? How do we model the situation in which we find ourselves and how do we decide which species to save, the most endangered or the easiest to save?
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The inconsistency of Hannah Arendt
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
Hannah Arendt’s life describes a tragically typical twentieth century trajectory. Born in Germany and, fleeing the Nazis, she ended up in the United States, where she died in 1975. As a philosopher – a title she disclaimed – she insisted on the importance of thinking in the world and not trying to be above it and she thought that understanding the richness and variety of the world was more important than attaining a consistent view of it. This week, we look at a very worldly thinker.
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The ethics of Kevin Rudd's heart
Sat, Jan 21, 2012
This program was first broadcast on 6 August 2011.
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The evil of the Daleks
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
This program was first broadcast on 18 June 2011.
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Meeting Martha Nussbaum
Sat, Jan 07, 2012
This program was first broadcast on 20 August 2011.
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How do octopuses think?
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
This program was first broadcast on 9 April 2011.
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An atheist's God: the paradox of Spinoza
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
THIS PROGRAM WAS FIRST BROADCAST ON 4 June 2011.
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On authenticity - Beate Roessler
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
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 authenticity of cultures, what about the authenticity of individual persons? This week, we investigate authenticity, the personal and the political.
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The trials and tribulations of private Bradley Manning
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
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 thousands of classified defence documents and faces life in prison if found guilty. Over two hundred legal scholars and philosophers have signed a petition claiming his treatment has been unconstitutional and unethical. This week we look at the literal trials and tribulations of Bradley Manning.
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The morality of robo-wars: PW Singer
Sat, Dec 03, 2011
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 machines, where the only deaths we see are on TV monitors? This week, we ask how we can bring a moral imagination to bear on a world of robot wars.
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Daniel Dennett on human consciousness and free will
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
This week on The Philosopher's Zone we meet one of the foremost thinkers of our time. Daniel Dennett is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Described as the great de-mystifier of consciousness, Dennett has been quoted as saying he developed a deep distrust of the methods he saw other philosophers employing and decided that before he could trust his intuitions about the mind, he had to figure out how the brain could possibly accomplish the mind's work.
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The artist and the philosopher - Gustav Klimt and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
In the last decades of the Hapsburg empire, from 1895 to 194, the city of Vienna was opulent, elegant and daring. A group of radical young artists, architects, writers, musicians, designers and thinkers were busy overturning all the rules. This week, we meet two of the brightest stars to have arisen in this febrile world, the enigmatic artist Gustav Klimt and the elusive philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and we look at Klimt through the changing gaze of Wittgenstein.
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Pascal's Wager - betting on God
Sat, Nov 12, 2011
This week on The Philosopher's Zone we're wagering on God. Well, why not? What have we got to lose? If God doesn't exist, we lose nothing; if he does, we gain everything. This is the famous argument known as 'Pascal's wager' after the great seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. This week, we examine the wager and try to work what our odds are.
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Jewish philosophy: Martin Buber
Sat, Nov 05, 2011
Martin Buber was born in pre-Nazi Austria and emigrated to Israel in 1938 where he spent much of the rest of his life. He grappled with Zionism, Jewish thought, secular philosophy and politics and the result is a body of thought very much based on relationships.
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Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
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