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Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

How important is beauty in architecture? Is a concern with beauty mere aestheticism? Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness discusses these and related questions in this podcast interview with Nigel Warburton.

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Barry Smith on Wine

Is the taste of wine purely subjective? Why should we value the experience of drinking wine? Barry Smith, editor of a new book on the Philosophy of Wine, Questions of Taste (Signal Books, Oxford, July 2007), explores these and related questions in this interview.

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The U.S. edition of the book Questions of Taste is published by OUP and has a different cover. See  cover of the U.S. edition.

Read Nigel Warburton's review of Questions of Taste on his weblog www.virtualphilosopher.org and also a review in The New York Times.

You can listen to Barry talking about Relativism on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time here. See

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Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

In this interview Miranda Fricker, author of a new book on the topic, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, explains the notion of testimonial injustice. This is a special kind of injustice that arises when someone wrongly treats someone else as a poor source of information, usually because of prejudice towards a particular group.

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You can also listen to Miranda Fricker explaining Aristotle's concept of virtue for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time here.

John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? Does it, perhaps, have no meaning at all? John Cottingham, author of a recent book on this topic, gives his answers in this interview.

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Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil

Stephen Law, author of The Philosophy Files, The X-Mas Files and The War for Children's Minds, explains the Problem of Evil and gives an original take on this traditional philosophical problem.

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Mary Warnock on Philosophy and Public Life

What can philosophers contribute to public life? Mary Warnock who sits in the House of Lords and has chaired two important commissions - special education needs and on human fertilisation and embryology - discusses how her training in philosophy prepared her for these roles.

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Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, has recently published Plato's Republic: A Biography . We launch Philosophy Bites with an interview with him on the topic of Plato's image of the cave - one of the most famous images in philosophy.

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