Taking Stock

More episodes from "Philosophy and the Human Situation - Audio"

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  Philosophy and the human situation

  6/23/2009

  1:03

  An introduction to this album
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  Liberty and Offence

  6/23/2009

  18:17

  Philosophy professor Jonathan Wolff discusses 19th century classical liberal thinker John Stuart Mill’s famous ‘harm’ principle
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  Rousseau and Positive Freedom

  6/23/2009

  19:27

  Philosophy lecturer Derek Matravers explains 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s line of thought in his great work, The Social Contract
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  Pro- and Anti-Regan Debate

  6/23/2009

  12:03

  Rosalind Hursthouse and Derek Matravers cover, in the form of a debate, the Regan argument developed by Tom Regan, animal rights professor.
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  Ethics, Animals, and the Environment

  6/23/2009

  22:05

  Oxford University Philosophy Professor Roger Crisp discusses specific moral questions concerning ethics, animals and the environment
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  Wonder

  6/23/2009

  19:43

  Influential philosopher of aesthetics Ronald Hepburn explains in his talk, ‘Wonder’, why wonder has haunted him over many decades
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  Who Is The Earth?

  6/23/2009

  26:31

  Moral philosopher Mary Midgley delivers a talk concerning differing and changing attitudes to our planet and our environmental responsibilities
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  Taking Stock

  6/23/2009

  15:47

  Bioethicist Janet Radcliffe Richards gives a talk entitled 'Taking Stock' focusing on the definition of philosophy and problems surrounding study of the subject
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  Artificial Intelligence

  6/23/2009

  20:42

  Philosophy professor Tim Crane explains what he sees to be the main philosophical issues in the area of Artificial Intelligence
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  The New Argument from Design

  6/23/2009

  18:09

  Physics professor Russell Stannard re-examines the claim he made 10 years ago about the way the universe seems mysteriously to have been geared up for producing life