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September podcast

TPM — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:13:23 +0000

In this edition, tpm editor-in-chief Julian Baggini talks to philosopher of biology John Dupré and the problems with genes, and the Nobel-prize winning Amartya Sen about the idea of Justice. Plus, guest reporter Antonia Macaro discusses Wittgenstein and therapy with John Heaton.

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August podcast

TPM — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:45:36 +0000

This summer special is an edited recording of a discussion chaired by tpm editor Julian Baggini in April on addiction: should we penalise or treat? The panel comprised: Dr Nick Airey, an NHS psychiatrist specialising in addiction, John Moore (Criminology, University of the West of England), Dr Giles Pearson, (Philosophy, University of Bristol), Dr Jon Webber (Philosophy, Cardiff University). The event was organised by Dr Havi Carel, Philosophy, UWE and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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July podcast

TPM — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:24:17 +0000

This edition includes a report from the 2010 Philosophers’ Football Match, where tpm editor Julian Baggini talks to AC Grayling, Laurie Taylor, comedian Mark Steel, former England manager Graham Taylor, and many more. Find out what the tribute to the famous Monty Python sketch was really about. Plus, there’s an interview with historian and philosopher of science Jay Kennedy, whose claim to have cracked “The Plato Code” is provoking an international scholarly debate.

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June podcast

TPM — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:53:39 +0000

This edition is all about “How to Live” and was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of Bristol Festival of Ideas in May. Joining tpm editor Julian Baggini are John Cottingham, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Reading; Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer; and Michael Foley, author of The Age of Absurdity.

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May podcast

TPM — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:17:08 +0000

tpm editor Julian Baggini is back after an April break with another of his philosophy monthly podcasts.

In this edition, Daniel Dennett is talking about the new atheism, and there’s a guest report by Antonia Macaro on the relevance of stoicism for today, with interviewees John Sellars and Richard Sorabji.

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March podcast

TPM — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:39:25 +0000

In this four-star edition, tpm editor Julian Baggini talks over the background hubbub of hotel bars and conference lunch tables with Jerry Fodor about what Darwin got wrong; Ben Goldacre on good philosophy and bad science; Michael Sandel on the problem with secular liberalism; and Philip Zimbardo on good people gone bad.

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February podcast

TPM — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:05:17 +0000

In the latest philosophy monthly, tpm editor Julian Baggini is reporting on the debate surrounding the growth of the well-being agenda, and talking to the winner of the Lakatos prize for the philosophy of Science, Samir Okasha, about evolution.

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January podcast

TPM — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:50:53 +0000

This special edition comes from Puebla, Mexico, at the Ciudad de las Ideas (City of Ideas) festival. The guests are Randy Cohen, writer of The New York Times’s The Ethicist column; Bad Thoughts author Jamie Whyte; and “new atheist” Sam Harris.

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December podcast

TPM — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:27:11 +0000

The last Philosophy Monthly of 2009 features previously unreleased extracts salvaged from the cutting room floor from six of the best interviews of the year: Michael Frayn, AC Grayling, Jonathan Sacks, Peter Singer, Timothy Williamson and Tony Wright MP.

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November podcast

TPM — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:19:58 +0000

In his latest Philosophy Monthly, tpm editor Julian Baggini is talking to the playwright, novelist, screenwriter and sometime philosopher, Michael Frayn, and John Armstrong, philosopher-in-residence at Melbourne Business School and the author of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Ideal.

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