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Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

Should minority groups such as recent immigrants be given rights that other citizens don't have? Will Kymlicka believes that they should. The difficulty of reconciling apparently preferential treatment with a policy of equality is a central one for anyone committed to multiculturalism. He addresses this important issue in this episode of Philosophy Bites.

Listen to Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights

Previously on Philosophy Bites:

Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

Is there enough in common between all human beings to warrant a universal ethical system? Can we be both citizens of the world and yet at the same time preserve what makes us different from each other? Anthony Appiah is not afraid of some of the toughest ethical issues that face us. In this interview for Philosophy Bites he defends what he has labelled 'Cosmopolitanism' an ethical position he has developed in greater detail in his book of the same name.

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Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

Anne Phillips, author of Multiculturalism Without Culture (Princeton, 2007) addresses the difficult question of how groups with conflicting values can live alongside each other.

Listen to Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism

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Read the Introduction to Multiculturalism Without Culture