Philosophy and the Real World - ABC listen Adam Smith, author of 'The Wealth of Nations', is renowned as the father of modern economics, but he also wrote this:

Tue 17 May 2005

Philosophy and the Real World

How different does economics look, how different does any subject look, if the person pursuing it is a philosopher?

- with #SimonLongstaff

#AdamSmith

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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

#May2005
#AlanSaunders