Philosophy Bites

How can we enjoy watching tragedy when it is a genre that deals with suffering and pain? In this episode of  the Phi... more

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most notorious works of political philosophy ever written. Quentin Skinn... more

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY WITH LIBSYN...Plotinus, who lived in the 3rd Century A.D., was the founder of neo-platonism. In this ... more

What precisely is a legal right? Matthew Kramer discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosoph... more

Civilization is for most people synonymous with progress. Not for the eighteenth century thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ro... more

How do we weigh lives one against another? Governments frequently have to make life and death decisions that take in to ac... more

Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, divided philosophers. For some he was a genius; for others a charlatan. In t... more

John Locke, writing in the Seventeenth Century, argued for religious toleration, though stopped short of toleration of ath... more

Should minority groups such as recent immigrants or those who have suffered historic injustice be given rights that other ... more

What goes on when someone does something deliberately? Jennifer Hornsby discusses this difficult philosophical question wi... more