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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 dialogues • Justice, equality, redistribution • Climate adaptation and sea-level rise • Immigration, identity, culture • Consumer complicity and organisational wrongdoing • Consent, autonomy, rights, consciousness

This podcast features conversations among philosophers—often joined by guest philosophers—who work through ethical and political questions that arise in everyday life and public policy. Across the episodes, the hosts use philosophical argument to clarify concepts, test intuitions, and explore what follows if certain moral or political claims are true.

A recurring focus is responsibility and wrongdoing: how to think about harms connected to ordinary consumer choices, what it means for an organisation (rather than an individual) to do wrong, and how duties might be distributed among individuals, institutions, and governments. The discussions also examine fairness and equality, including what a “fair go” could require and whether redistributive policies are justified.

Several themes connect ethics to social and political issues such as immigration, national identity, and cultural protection, as well as climate-related questions about sea-level rise and what justice demands in adaptation. The podcast also spends time on personal and interpersonal ethics: the moral boundaries of parental partiality, questions about procreation and environmental impact, consent and situations where consent cannot be known, and the way shame, respect, and social esteem shape moral life.

Some episodes broaden the inquiry to questions at the edge of moral concern, such as whether insects might be conscious and what moral implications that would carry. Overall, this podcast presents philosophical dialogue aimed at making complex ethical dilemmas and political disagreements more precise by examining assumptions, definitions, and consequences.

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