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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2009-07-04 - Philosophy - The great divide (Continental / Analytic)
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jul 04, 2009
This week, we examine a division in the philosophical world, between what´s called analytic philosophy, as practised in the English-speaking world and the Nordic nations, and continental philosophy. If you´re an analytical philosopher, all that French and German stuff looks vague, verbose and romantic. If you´re sitting Paris, the analytical stuff is likely to seem abstract, dry and quite unconnected with human realities. Professor Paul Patton straddles the divide and this week he tells us whether he thinks it´s real.
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2009-06-27 - Is philosophy irrelevant to science?
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jun 27, 2009
Scientists get on with the job – they do stuff with test tubes or with computers – but can philosophers help them? Do they need help and, if so, do they think they need help? This week, we examine what philosophers of science talk about and what effect it might have on what scientists actually do.
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2009-06-20 - The Romantic Movement and rock music
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jun 20, 2009
Romantic ideas and philosophy live on in certain strains of modern rock music, according to this week's guest, Craig Schuftan, author of Hey Nietzsche - Leave them kids alone. David Bowie, The Cure, The Smiths, Queen, and more contemporary bands like My Chemical Romance and Weezer share some seriously Romantic tendencies with people like Byron, Schopenhauer, Wagner and even Nietzsche - and it's not just because they all viewed the world through the same gloomy prism.
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2009-06-13 - A conversation with Isaiah Berlin
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jun 13, 2009
Last week, we commemorated the centenary of the birth of the greatest British philosopher and historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin. This week, we raid the ABC archives for a long interview in which Berlin talks about human freedom: are we free and, if we are not free, can we be moral? Are we responsible for what we do or can circumstances let us off the hook?
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- Published:
2002
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T018903
Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
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