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Podcast Profile: Dialogues: a philosophy podcast

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13 episodes
2018
Median: 18 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

Description (podcaster-provided):

Snodger Media produces the Dialogues Podcast, and other radio works.

Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Ethical and political philosophy • Justice, equality, redistribution • Climate adaptation and sea-level rise • Immigration, identity, culture • Responsibility in organisations • Consumer complicity in injustice • Consent and autonomy • Procreation and parenting ethics • Insect consciousness

This podcast features conversational discussions of philosophy, with a strong emphasis on ethics and political philosophy. Episodes are typically structured as dialogues among host philosophers and occasional guest philosophers, who work through contemporary moral problems by clarifying concepts, testing arguments, and exploring what different principles would imply in real life.

Across the series, the conversations return to questions about responsibility, rights, and justice in both personal choices and large social systems. Some discussions focus on individual moral duties—such as how to think about charitable giving, what we owe to strangers versus those close to us, and whether there are limits to what parents may do to advance their children’s interests. Others examine how moral evaluation applies to collective actors and institutions, including who is responsible when an organisation causes harm and how ordinary consumers may be implicated in injustices connected to everyday goods and supply chains.

The podcast also engages with public policy dilemmas and global challenges. Topics include immigration and national identity, the meaning of equality and whether fairness depends on choice or circumstance, and debates about redistribution and the proper role of government versus private action. Environmental and intergenerational issues feature as well, including ethical questions around procreation in light of environmental concerns, and justice in adapting to sea-level rise.

Several episodes broaden the scope beyond humans and beyond simple individual decision-making, considering the moral relevance of consciousness in nonhuman animals such as insects, as well as how earlier decisions can permissibly bind or constrain a person’s later self. Social and interpersonal ethics appear through discussions of esteem, shame, respect, and consent, including situations where ambiguity about consent itself may be morally problematic.

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