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Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is a great but difficult work. In this interview for Philosophy Bites A.W. Moore gives an accessible account of the main themes of the book and explains what might have been motivating Kant's appro...

Emily Thomas on Wildly Implausible Metaphysics

Some philosophers have drawn very strange conclusions about the nature of reality. But that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't study their work. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Emily Thomas discusses how wildly implaus...

Hugh Mellor on Time

Events happen in time. And time is essentially tensed: there is past, present, future. D.H. Mellor, author of Real Time (and Real Time 2), suggests otherwise. In this podcast for Philosophy Bites he explains why time isn't tensed. List...

Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals

What am I? This is the fundamental question that Paul Snowdon addresses in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. John Locke thought that continuity of memory was the basic criterion for determining whether or not we are dealing w...

Edward Craig on What Is Philosophy?

Edward Craig, former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, author of Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, and editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, gives an interesting analysis of the nature of ph...

Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

New technology has changed our relationship to one another and to the world, argues Luciano Floridi. This calls for a shake up in philosophy. Listen to Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution

Christian List on Free Will

What is free will? Do we have it? These are thorny questions that divide philosophers. Neuroscience seems to point in the direction of determinism. But Christian List thinks we do have free will. He explains why to David Edmonds. Liste...

Anthony Grayling on Atheism

Is belief in the existence of a God or gods the equivalent of believing that there are fairies at the bottom of the garden? Or can it be defended on the basis of reason or evidence? In this interview for Philosophy Bites Anthony Graylin...

David Papineau on Physicalism

Is the mind physical? Can we explain all human conscious experience in terms of physical events? David Papineau believes that we can. In this interview for Philosophy Bites he explains what physicalism is, why he believes it to be true, ...