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

#May2005
#AlanSaunders

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?

#May2005
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone