David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer)
Is it ever morally acceptable to kill one person to save many? Most people agree that in some extrem
You think you know what's best but don't do it. We've all been there. For Plato and Aristotle this w
David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' focuses on judgements about beauty in writing. Can we say wi
What do we really care about? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samuel Scheffler sugge
Must humour be moral? What about jokes that rely on immoral attitudes? Can they be funny? Are humou
Can computers think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that t
'How should we live?' is a basic philosophical question. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites pod
Most philosophers today self-identify as within an Analytic or a Continental tradition. Where did th
Is there any reasonable objection to same sex marriage? Les Green discusses this controversial issue
Hitting someone, throwing a ball hard at someone's head, spitting at someone: these are all examples
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, published in 1651, remains one of the great works of political philosophy.
Is there any connection between philosophy and running. Mark Rowlands, who began running to exercise
What are constitutions and how are we to interpret them? John Gardner addresses these questions in c
What is a hallucination? How does it differ from an illusion? Fiona Macpherson of Glasgow University
Jeff McMahan argues against the private ownership of guns in this episode of the Philosophy Bites po
Descartes believed that we can have knowledge that was independent of experience. In this episode of
What, if anything, is wrong with surveillance? Why value privacy? Tom Sorrell answers these question
What can philosophers learn from schizophrenia? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast John
Philosopher Kendall Walton argues that we can literally see through photographs in this episode of t
Ancient and modern concepts of freedom differ. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast polit
