Episode 6 — The Art of Ethical Relationships

There’s knowing that and there’s knowing how. Is moral knowledge is as much knowing how as knowing that?

2 March 2005

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The Euthyphro: Dialogue about a Dialogue - ABC listen Last week, we heard Plato's dialogue, 'The Euthyphro', in which Plato's great teacher, Socrates, explores (with the slightly befuddled fellow Athenian who gives the dialogue its title) the question of...

Episode 5 — The Euthyphro: Dialogue about a Dialogue

Is Socrates deliberately making things sound more difficult than they really are, and what's the point since we don't actually end up with a definition of piety?

Wed 23 February 2005

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The Euthyphro - ABC listen This week we meet one of the all-time philosophical heavyweights: Socrates.

Episode 4 — The Euthyphro

In this edited version of the dialogue, the role of #Socrates is taken by Dr Rick Benitez, who teaches ancient Greek philosophy at the University of Sydney.

Wed 16 February 2005

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The Relevance of Professor Quine - ABC listen In 2000, when the distinguished American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine died at the age of 94, The Times of London published a respectful obituary. A few days later, one of the paper's own column...

Alan Saunders: Is the dichotomy of analytic and synthetic statements just a game with words? No, I think it isn't. Words are, for the most part, what we think with and a problem with words is our problem with our picture of the world.

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The Relevance of Professor Quine - ABC listen In 2000, when the distinguished American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine died at the age of 94, The Times of London published a respectful obituary. A few days later, one of the paper's own column...

Episode 3 — The Relevance of Professor Quine

This week, we look at Quine's work in the light of Jenkins's complaints and ask whether this really is just a matter of word games or whether Jenkins has simply missed the point.

Tue 8 Feb 2005

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The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Past Programs

Aired on Saturday at 1.30pm, and were repeated Wednesday at 9.35pm

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Philosophy 101 - ABC listen This week, The Philosopher's Zone goes back to basics and asks what sort of thing philosophy really is. If you were going to produce a caricature of a philosopher, you might have somebody saying somet...

David Braddon-Mitchell: Philosophy is what's left when you can't do the experiments. When there are questions that you've got to sort out using the methodology, using the reasoning, using those sorts of tools and there's not an empirical method that you can deal with.
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Philosophy 101 - ABC listen This week, The Philosopher's Zone goes back to basics and asks what sort of thing philosophy really is. If you were going to produce a caricature of a philosopher, you might have somebody saying somet...

Episode 2 — Philosophy 101

This week, The Philosopher’s Zone goes back to fundamentals, asking what sort of thing philosophy really is.
Alan Saunders is joined by David Braddon-Mitchell.

Tue, 1 February 2005

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The Philosophy Of Compassion - ABC listen We have seen a huge public humanitarian response after the Asian tsunami, but was it too much? Should we be less emotional and more calculating in our compassion, carefully apportioning aid according ...

Episode 1

Launched on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders explored major philosophical questions and debates.

In the inaugural episode, Alan Saunders discusses the philosophy of compassion with Paul Comrie-Thompson.

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that involves rights, notion of justice, love, consciousness, friendship.

Normally, you keep those worlds apart. Philosophers are poor people who somehow can't keep them apart, and clash them together. And they ask themselves: how do these pictures tick together?

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Group agents - ABC listen On this Philosopher’s Zone we’re looking at agents. Not secret agents but rather public agents: an agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose and an agent is distinguished from a patient....

Sun 26 Feb 2012

Group agents

An agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose, but do we have to be talking about individual persons here, or can groups of people be agents in just the way that individuals can?

- with #PhilipPettit

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What is an Ethicist? - ABC listen You can be a biologist without reading Darwin and you can be a physicist without knowing anything about the works of Newton, but philosophers are still reading Plato, Descartes and Kant: people who di...

Tue 10 May 2005

What is an #Ethicist?

You can be a biologist without reading Darwin or a physicist without reading Newton, but philosophers still read Plato, Descartes and Kant. So does this mean that philosophy, unlike science, does not progress?

- with #SimonLongstaff

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Kafka and Philosophy - ABC listen Franz Kafka—author of The Trial, in which a man is unjustly accused and tried, and Metamorphosis, in which a man becomes a giant insect—is perhaps the modernist author most often discussed by philosop...

Sun 4 Mar 2012

Kafka and Philosophy

What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?

- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity

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Volcanoes, Sea Battles and Aristotle - ABC listen A few weeks ago, ABC TV ran a series - part documentary, part drama - about what volcanoes (and in particular the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park in the US) might do to us at some point in the fut...

Tue 3 May 2005

Volcanoes, Sea Battles and #Aristotle

Logicians and philosophers are always concerned about the status of our statements. How, for example, can we make meaningful statements about things that don't exist?

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