David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer)
Could you be part of a computer simulation of reality? Sounds unlikely, doesn't it. But Nick Bostrom
Luc Bovens, a philosopher at the London School of Economics argues that Catholic sexual morality sho
Henry Sidgwick, who died in 1900, is something of a philosophers' philosopher. In this episode of th
How can state punishment of criminals be justified? Is it right that wrongdoers suffer? Victor Tadro
What role does imagination play in our lives? Why do we have an imagination at all? Alison Gopnik in
Do we have an innate predisposition to form certain sorts of moral judgements? John Mikhail thinks w
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores questions about responsibility and culpability in the light o
Can love be defined? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Simon May, author of a recent b
The standard reading of David Hume's Treatise is that it reveals him as a sceptic and also as an adv
Is the attempt to find happiness self-defeating? Have people always been so obsessed with the pursui
What is humour? Why do we have a sense of humour? Philosophers have been asking this sort of questio
In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Catharine MacKinnon talks to Nigel Warburton about t
Michel de Montaigne is an unusual and likeable figure. His essays are quirky, honest, and strangely
Frank Ramsey was a remarkable philosopher and mathematician who made substantial original contributi
The moral philosopher Jonathan Glover discusses questions about personality disorder, conscience, an
There is a long tradition of just war theory, but how does it square with moral cosmopolitanism, the
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel discusses 3 different theories of Justice in this episode of the
Must it be? Do I really have a choice about what I do? I seem to be able to reason about what I will
Why bother studying the Humanities? Surely when resources are limited we should be concentrating on
When a group of people acts together we can hold that group morally and legally responsible. But how
