I’ve been downloading the Philosophy Bites podcast from BBC radio, for a while now. Philosophers from around the world deliver twenty-minute lectures about a wide variety of topics, from consciousness and personhood, to rights and obligations, and even concepts such as cannibalism!
I really enjoy these brief introductions, and you might, too! Check out the new Philosophy Bites book for the following lectures:
- Julian Savulescu on ‘Yuk!’
- Simon Blackburn on Relativism
- Peter Singer on Animals
- Michael Sandel on Sport and Enhancement
- Alexander Nehamas on Friendship
- Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
- Miranda Fricker on Credibility and Discrimination
- Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism
- Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
- Wendy Brown on Tolerance
- A.W. Moore on Infinity
- David Papineau on Scientific Realism
- Hugh Mellor on Time
- Time Crane on Mind and Body
- Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
- Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
- Alain de Botton on the Aesthetics of Architecture
- Barry C. Smith on Wine
- Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
- Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God
- John Cottingham on the Meaning of Life
- Stephen Law on the Problem of Evil
- Keith Ward on Eastern and Western Idealism
- A.C. Grayling on Atheism