Episode 10 | Beauty in Mathematics | 24’44”
What is the nature of mathematics? Can it be beautiful? Christian Helmut Wenzel considers these questions within the framework of Kant’s transcendental philosophy. He has both a PhD in Philosophy and in Mathematics, and is a Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University. This interview took place on January 24, 2013.
Episode 9 | Nietzsche | 51’31”
This episode discusses an intriguing philosopher: Nietzsche. Dr Daniel Came is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull. He has held a Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford and a College Lectureship in Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. His main research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics (especially within the post-Kantian German tradition). He is the author of a forthcoming book on Nietzsche, and the editor of two forthcoming collections of essays on Nietzsche.
Episode 8 | Philosophy of Psychiatry | 45’48”
What does it mean to say that somebody is mentally ill? This is one of the many questions asked in the philosophy of psychiatry. Christine Lopes BA, MA, PhD (Philosophy), PGDip (RNMH), teaches Philosophy in different academic and non-academic settings, has a book on idealism and morality in the making, and a handful of publications. She is also the founder of the Later German Philosophy project.
Episode 7 | Ernst Cassirer 37’08”
Ernst Cassirer is a unique and often overlooked figure in twentieth century Philosophy. The talk in this episode was held by Michael Inwood at the After Kant conference. Michael Inwood has been a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford for many years.
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Episode 6 | Wittgenstein and Metaphilosophy | 27’32”
Ludwig Wittgenstein is a philosopher’s philosopher: he had much to say about how philosophy should be done. In this episode Peter Hacker explains Wittgenstein’s metaphilosophical views, talks about the mind, and expresses his pessimism about contemporary philosophy. Peter Hacker is a Wittgenstein expert, and an Emeritus Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford.
Episode 5 | Marx and Morality 33’51”
Morality is often considered to be ahistorical. In this episode we focus on Marx, who disagrees with this view of morality. David Marjoribanks’ research focuses on the theories of ideology and the implications for morality in Marx and postmarxism. He argues that ethical norms are not transcendent, but are already there, embodied within our social practice. Critique, he thinks, is the holding to account of practice to its professed ideals.
Episode 4 | The Mary Argument 14’11”
Most scientists will tell you that the world is entirely physical. Frank Jackson is famous for a thought experiment that challenges this worldview. He is a Distinguished Professor at Australian National University and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and meta-ethics.
Episode 3 | Epidemiology 20’00”
What is Epidemiology, and why is it philosophically interesting? Dr. Alex Broadbent is establishing the philosophy of epidemiology as a distinct area within the philosophy of science, and he has a blog on this topic. He is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, and an Affiliated Research Scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He works on metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of law. Errata.
Episode 2 | Literature and Fictionality | 15’30”
What is it that makes us think of something as fictional or non-fictional? The answer is less obvious than one might at first think, and it drags along quite a baggage of other questions. David Davies has taught at McGill since 1987. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, following a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Wadham College, Oxford) and an MA in Philosophy (Manitoba). His doctoral research and much of his research for the following few years was on the Realism/Anti-Realism debate in contemporary metaphysics, and on related issues in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language. For the past 10 years his research has focussed mainly on metaphysical and epistemological issues in the Philosophy of Art.
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Episode 1 | Descartes, Technology and Minds | 21’30”
Descartes is often depicted as the philosopher who built his system by restarting everything from scratch, after having sceptically dumped all formerly accepted opinions. Prof. Hanoch Ben-Yami challenges this view. He is professor at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and an expert in various areas of theoretical philosophy, the history of modern philosophy, logic and philosophy of language. In his book ‘Logic and Natural Language’ (2004), Prof. Ben-Yami challenged Frege’s system of logic. He is currently in the process of writing a book on Descartes.
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