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Podcast Profile: Premise Podcast

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3 episodes
2020
Median: 50 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

Description (podcaster-provided):

Welcome to Premise Podcast. This is your host Angelos Sofocleous.
In this podcast, I will be inviting a fellow philosopher each week to discuss a topic in an area of philosophy, including, but not limited to, metaphysics, ethics, phenomenology, aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and environmental philosophy. The podcast will also feature conversations related to politics, religion, and society.
The name of the podcast, Premise Podcast, signifies what the podcast is about: Introducing, challenging, and contrasting different premises before reaching any conclusion - if we are going to reach a conclusion. Sometimes, the conclusion might just be that a conclusion is unreachable.
This podcast will offer the opportunity to the public to explore and understand complex concepts in philosophy which will be presented in a clear and intelligible manner.
I am grateful that you are joining me on this quest to make philosophy public and I hope that this podcast will promote fruitful discussions and provide you with the opportunity to enrich your knowledge of philosophy.
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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Philosophical interviews • Nietzsche: Übermensch, self-overcoming, morality, “God is dead” • ethics of war, peace, foreign policy • agency, free will, responsibility • reactive vs objective attitudes • “ought implies can,” original sin

This podcast features in-depth, interview-style conversations with academic philosophers about major questions and figures across moral, political, and continental philosophy. Guided by the idea of examining and contrasting premises before settling on any conclusion, discussions often unpack foundational concepts, clarify distinctions, and explore how different philosophical frameworks shape what we take to be true or justified.

Across the episodes, listeners encounter sustained treatment of ethics and moral psychology, including the nature of agency and what it means to hold someone responsible. The conversations address how free will relates to responsibility, and they draw on well-known philosophical distinctions such as reactive versus objective attitudes, alongside principles like “ought implies can.” The show also brings religiously inflected moral ideas into dialogue with contemporary theory, using concepts such as original sin to illuminate accounts of blame and obligation.

Political philosophy and applied ethics appear through analysis of conflict, focusing on the ethics of war, peace, and foreign policy, and the broader problem of assessing violence, legitimacy, and justice in international contexts.

In addition, the podcast engages canonical thinkers in European philosophy, using close explanation of key Nietzschean themes such as self-overcoming, the Übermensch, critiques of morality, and the implications of “God is dead.” Overall, the series aims to make complex philosophical debates intelligible to a general audience while retaining the nuance of scholarly discussion.

Episodes:

#20 Friedrich Nietzsche | Dr Matthew Bennett
2020-Jul-10
53 minutes

#19 Ethics of War - Professor Cecile Fabre
2020-Apr-27
50 minutes

#18 Agency and Responsibility - Professor Pamela Hieronymi
2020-Mar-05
42 minutes