Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy lectures • discussions on metaphysics • ethics • epistemology • political philosophy • historical perspectives • contemporary debates • featuring scholars from various institutions
This podcast, "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society," offers a series of discussions featuring leading philosophers. Founded in 1880, the Aristotelian Society meets in London to facilitate talks across a wide range of philosophical traditions. The episodes primarily focus on philosophical inquiry and debate, presenting both historical and contemporary perspectives on a variety of topics. The aim is to make philosophy accessible to a broader audience, enriching public understanding by recording discussions from these meetings.
Episodes tend to explore intricate philosophical concepts often rooted in metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. Common themes include the nature of selfhood, the relationship between philosophy and science, and questions of moral responsibility. Other episodes delve into discussions about free will, rationality, partiality, identity, knowledge versus belief, and the historical contributions of noted philosophers like Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Kant. There is also engagement with ideas such as dualism, disjunctivism, perception, gender issues, and equality, suggesting a commitment to examining both abstract concepts and pressing social issues.
Conversations frequently intersect with issues from multiple disciplines, such as cognitive science, epistemology, and ethics, allowing for a rich interdisciplinary approach. The podcast also reflects on the evolution of philosophical thought and tackles contemporary challenges in philosophical discourse. Given the breadth of topics, this podcast could appeal to listeners interested in deepening their understanding of philosophical traditions and tackling complex questions about human existence and society. Produced with contributions from the Backdoor Broadcasting Company, these episodes provide a valuable resource for anyone keen to engage with substantive philosophical discussions.
Episodes:
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13/01/2024: Monima Chadha on "Can We Construct Persons?"
2025-Jan-14
55 minutes
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Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP
2025-Jan-03
53 minutes
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20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement
2022-Jun-27
51 minutes
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6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff
2022-Jun-14
55 minutes
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30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt
2022-Jun-07
54 minutes
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23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections'
2022-May-30
72 minutes
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09/05/22: Mazviita Chirimuuta on Disjunctivism and Cartesian Idealisation
2022-May-16
46 minutes
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25/04/22: Emma Borg on A Defence of Individual Rationality
2022-May-02
54 minutes
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21/03/22: Jack Spencer on Intrinsically Desiring the Vague
2022-Mar-23
54 minutes
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07/03/22: Dawn Wilson on Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture
2022-Mar-14
52 minutes
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21/02/22: Andrew Huddleston on Aesthetic Beautification
2022-Feb-28
53 minutes
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31/01/22: Rachel Cristy on Commanders and Scientific Labourers: Nietzsche on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science
2022-Feb-14
50 minutes
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17/01/22: Rachael Wiseman on Metaphysics by Analogy
2022-Jan-24
56 minutes
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15/11/2021: Cécile Fabre on Doxastic Wrongs, Non-spurious Generalisations and Particularised Beliefs
2021-Nov-26
47 minutes
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18/10/2021: Heather Widdows on 'No Duty To Resist: Why individual resistance is an ineffective response to dominant beauty ideals'
2021-Nov-04
41 minutes
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4/10/2021 – 114th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Robert Stern asks ‘How is human freedom compatible with the authority of the Good?’ Murdoch on moral agency, freedom, and imagination
2021-Oct-07
53 minutes
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28/06/2021: Julia Borcherding on “I wish my Speech were like a Loadstone” – Cavendish on Love and Self-Love
2021-Jul-02
56 minutes
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21/06/2021: Michael Beaney on Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic
2021-Jun-25
47 minutes
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07/06/2021: Corine Besson on Knowing How to Reason Logically
2021-Jun-11
60 minutes
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24/05/2021: Kenny Easwaran on a New Method for Value Aggregation
2021-May-28
57 minutes
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10/05/2021: Joseph Chan on Equality, Friendship, and Politics
2021-May-17
50 minutes
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24/04/2021: Ralf Bader on Coincidence and Supervenience
2021-Apr-30
54 minutes
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22/03/2021: Helga Varden on Kant and Arendt on Barbaric and Totalitarian Evil
2021-Mar-29
55 minutes
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08/03/2021: Nicolas Cornell on Gambling on Others and Relying on Others
2021-Mar-15
42 minutes
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22/02/2021: Mary-Louise Gill on Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Reconceived
2021-Mar-01
55 minutes
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01/02/2021: Barbara Sattler on Paradoxes as Philosophical Method and their Zenonian Origins
2021-Feb-15
53 minutes
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18/01/2021: Lee Walters on the Linguistic Approach to Ontology
2021-Jan-25
52 minutes
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16/11/2020: Leigh Jenco on Moral Knowledge and Empirical Verification in Late Ming China
2020-Nov-27
48 minutes
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2/11/2020: Adrian Haddock on the Wonder of Signs
2020-Nov-09
51 minutes
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19/10/2020: Tommy Curry asks 'Must there be an Empirical Basis for the Theorization of Racialized Subjects in Race-Gender Theory?'
2020-Oct-26
35 minutes
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5/10/2020 – 113th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bill Brewer on the Objectivity of Perception
2020-Oct-12
45 minutes
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5/10/2020 – 113th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Steward introduces Bill Brewer as the 113th President of the Aristotelian Society
2020-Oct-12
6 minutes
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15/6/2020: Walter Dean on Consistency and Existence in Mathematics
2020-Jun-29
70 minutes
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8/6/2020: Béatrice Han-Pile on Two Puzzles in the Early Christian Constitution of the Self: Reflections on Foucault’s Interpretation of John Cassian
2020-Jun-12
56 minutes
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1/6/2020: Anna Mahtani on Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems
2020-Jun-05
46 minutes
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18/5/2020: Maria Rosa Antognazza on the Distinction of Kind between Knowledge and Belief
2020-May-26
54 minutes
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11/5/2020: Derrick Darby on Rights Externalism and Racial Injustice
2020-May-18
50 minutes
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27/4/2020: Nancy Cartwright asks Why Trust Science?
2020-May-03
44 minutes
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30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity
2020-Apr-17
70 minutes
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16/3/2020: Andrew Bacon on Vagueness at Every Order
2020-Mar-23
57 minutes
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17/2/2020: Alexander Douglas on Spinoza’s Unquiet Acquiescentia
2020-Mar-01
46 minutes
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3/2/2020: Philip Goff on Panpsychism and Free Will
2020-Feb-10
47 minutes
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20/1/2020: Emily Thomas on Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy
2020-Jan-26
56 minutes
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9/12/2019: Meena Dhanda on the Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Casteism
2019-Dec-30
56 minutes
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4/11/2019: Colleen Murphy on Principled Compromises
2019-Nov-29
51 minutes
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21/10/2019 – Glen Pettigrove on Ambition, Love, and Happiness
2019-Nov-03
57 minutes
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7/10/2019 – 112th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Steward on Free Will and External Reality: Two Scepticisms Compared
2019-Oct-15
58 minutes
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3/6/2019: Kathleen Stock asks What is Sexual Orientation?
2019-Jun-07
48 minutes
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28/5/2019: Thomas Sattig on the Flow of Time in Experience
2019-May-28
42 minutes
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13/5/2019: Christian List on What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response
2019-May-19
65 minutes
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29/4/2019: Cheshire Calhoun on Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility
2019-May-07
53 minutes
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18/3/2019: Stephen Mulhall on Heidegger’s Fountain: Ecstasis, Mimesis and Engrossment in the Origin of the Work of Art
2019-Mar-31
61 minutes
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4/3/2019: Sophia Connell on Care and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics
2019-Mar-08
48 minutes
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18/2/2019: Nicholas K. Jones on Propositions and Cognitive Relations
2019-Feb-24
62 minutes
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4/2/2019 – Amia Srinivasan on Genealogy
2019-Feb-11
58 minutes
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21/1/2019 – Keith Allen asks Whether We Should Believe Philosophical Claims on Testimony
2019-Jan-27
43 minutes
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26/11/2018 – Stephen Neale on Means Means Means
2018-Dec-08
58 minutes
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12/11/2018 – Rae Langton on Empathy and First Personal Imagining
2018-Nov-18
49 minutes
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29/10/2018 – Fabienne Peter on Normative Facts and Reasons
2018-Nov-04
53 minutes
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15/10/2018 – Sarah Fine on Refugees, Safety and a Decent Human Life
2018-Oct-22
51 minutes
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1/10/2018 – 111th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Jonathan Wolff on Equality and Hierarchy
2018-Oct-12
44 minutes
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8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium VI on Fundamental Powers, featuring Alexander Bird and Barbara Vetter
2018-Sep-09
71 minutes
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8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium V on Benevolence, featuring Nomy Arpaly and Erasmus Mayr
2018-Sep-09
55 minutes
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8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium IV on What Brains-in-Vats Can Know, featuring Ofra Magidor and Aidan McGlynn
2018-Sep-09
61 minutes
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7/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium II on Racial Justice, featuring Charles Mills and Katrin Flikschuh
2018-Sep-09
70 minutes
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7/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium I on Plato on the Uses and Value of Knowledge, featuring Verity Hale and Melissa Lane
2018-Sep-09
64 minutes
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6/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Inaugural Address - John Divers asks W(h)ither Metaphysical Necessity?
2018-Sep-09
47 minutes
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18/6/2018: Victoria McGeer on Intelligent Capacities
2018-Jun-25
58 minutes
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4/6/2018: Holly Lawford-Smith on Collective Culpability and Collective Punishment
2018-Jun-14
45 minutes
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21/5/2018: Lisa Shapiro on Assuming Epistemic Authority
2018-Jun-01
45 minutes
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23/4/2018: Alison Hills on Moral and Aesthetic Virtue
2018-May-13
60 minutes
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19/3/2018: Martin Saar asks What is Social Philosophy?
2018-Apr-15
43 minutes
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5/3/2018: Sarah Moss on Moral Encroachment
2018-Mar-12
58 minutes
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19/2/2018: Alex Voorhoeve on Epicurus, Pleasure, the Complete Life, and Death: A Partial Defence
2018-Mar-01
57 minutes
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5/2/2018: Craig French on Naïve Realism and Diaphaneity
2018-Feb-13
54 minutes
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22/1/2018: Sarah Sawyer on the Importance of Concepts
2018-Jan-28
56 minutes
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27/11/2017: Laurent Jaffro on Forgiveness and Weak Agency
2017-Dec-20
52 minutes
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13/11/2017: Elizabeth Ashford on the Infliction of Severe Povertyas the Perfect Crime
2017-Dec-20
50 minutes
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30/10/2017: John Gardner on Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful
2017-Nov-10
53 minutes
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16/10/2017: François Recanati on Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional
2017-Oct-23
48 minutes
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2/10/2017 – 110th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Beebee on Philosophical Scepticism
2017-Oct-08
55 minutes
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19/6/2017: Shamik Dasgupta on Normative Non-Naturalism and the Problem of Authority
2017-Jul-08
50 minutes
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5/6/2017: Daniel Viehoff on Serving the Governed
2017-Jun-09
56 minutes
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22/5/2017: Ursula Renz on Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement
2017-May-31
48 minutes
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8/5/2017: Gerald Lang on What Follows from Defensive Non-Liability?
2017-May-13
62 minutes
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6/3/2017: Beate Roessler on Privacy as a Human Right
2017-Mar-23
52 minutes
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20/2/2017: Lea Ypi on Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality
2017-Mar-02
55 minutes
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6/2/2017: Genia Schönbaumsfeld on Beliefs-in-a-Vat
2017-Feb-16
52 minutes
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23/1/2017: Eleanor Knox on Novel Explanation and the Special Sciences - Lessons From Physics
2017-Jan-30
44 minutes
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9/1/2017: Hasok Chang on Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality
2017-Jan-17
49 minutes
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28/11/2016: James Studd on Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox
2016-Dec-06
63 minutes
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14/11/2016: Beth Lord on Disagreement in the Political Philosophy of Spinoza and Rancière
2016-Nov-20
43 minutes
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6/10/2016: Elizabeth Cripps on Justice, Integrity and Moral Community
2016-Nov-06
51 minutes
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17/10/2016 - Christopher Daly on Persistent Philosophical Disagreement
2016-Oct-24
50 minutes
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3/10/2016 - 109th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Tim Crane on the Unity of Unconsciousness
2016-Oct-11
56 minutes
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Dorothea Debus on Shaping Our Mental Lives
2016-Jun-26
56 minutes
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Hilary Greaves on Cluelessness
2016-Jun-11
56 minutes
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Dominic Scott on From Painters to Poets: Method in Plato, Republic X
2016-Jun-03
52 minutes
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09/05/2016: Peter Poellner on Phenomenology and the Perceptual Model of Emotion
2016-May-21
62 minutes
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25/04/2016: Mary Leng on Naturalism and Placement
2016-May-01
58 minutes
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07/03/2016: Jessica Leech on the Mereology of Representation
2016-Mar-20
53 minutes
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22/02/2016: Tobias Rosefeldt on Closing the Gap
2016-Feb-28
51 minutes
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08/02/2016: Jules Holroyd asks What Do We Want From a Model of Implicit Cognition?
2016-Feb-18
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25/01/2016: James Wilson on Internal and External Validity in Thought Experiments
2016-Feb-04
58 minutes
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11/01/2016: Tim Bayne on 'Gist!'
2016-Jan-19
43 minutes
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30/11/2015: Fiona Woollard on Dimensions of Demandingness
2015-Dec-06
51 minutes
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16/11/2015: Jérôme Dokic on Aesthetic Experience as Metacognitive Feeling
2015-Nov-22
59 minutes
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2/11/2015: Benjamin Sachs on Contractarianism as a Political Morality
2015-Nov-14
42 minutes
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19/10/2015: David Enoch on What’s Wrong with Paternalism:Autonomy, Belief and Action
2015-Oct-27
48 minutes
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5/10/2015 - 108th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Susan James on Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation
2015-Oct-11
53 minutes
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15/6/2015: Susanna Siegel on Epistemic Charge
2015-Jun-22
65 minutes
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1/6/2015: Giles Pearson asks What are Sources of Motivation?
2015-Jun-08
44 minutes
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18/5/2015: Sacha Golob on Self-Knowledge, Agency and Self-Authorship
2015-May-26
65 minutes
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11/05/2015: Simon Prosser on Why are Indexicals Essential?
2015-May-12
66 minutes
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27/4/2015: Christoph Hoerl on Writing on the Page of Consciousness
2015-May-05
49 minutes
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9/3/2015: Matthew Chrisman on Knowing What One Ought To Do
2015-Mar-16
45 minutes
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23/2/2015: Louise Richardson on Perceptual Activity and Bodily Awareness
2015-Feb-26
47 minutes
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9/2/2015: Sophie Gibb on Defending Dualism
2015-Feb-17
50 minutes
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26/1/2015: Dominic Gregory on Visual Content, Expectations, and the Outside World
2015-Feb-02
45 minutes
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12/1/2015: Michael Garnett on Freedom and Indoctrination
2015-Jan-19
51 minutes
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1/12/2014: Jens Timmermann on What’s Wrong with ‘Deontology’?
2014-Dec-08
45 minutes
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17/11/2014: Paulina Sliwa on Understanding and Knowing
2014-Nov-25
44 minutes
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3/11/2014: John Heil on Aristotelian Supervenience
2014-Nov-11
44 minutes
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20/10/2014: Catharine Abell on Genre, Interpretation and Evaluation
2014-Oct-27
53 minutes
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6/10/2014 - 107th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Adrian Moore on Being, Univocity and Logical Syntax
2014-Oct-13
53 minutes
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13/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium V on Self-Regulation, featuring Tamar Szabó Gendler and Jennifer Nagel
2014-Oct-13
63 minutes
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13/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium IV on the Ethical Significance of Persistence, featuring Amber Carpenter and Stephen Makin
2014-Oct-13
60 minutes
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12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium III on Culpability, Duress and Excuses, featuring Gideon Rosen and Marcia Baron
2014-Oct-13
63 minutes
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12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium II on Moral Testimony, featuring Hallvard Lillehammer and Roger Crisp
2014-Oct-13
42 minutes
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12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium I on Truth and Meaning, featuring Ian Rumfitt and Gary Kemp
2014-Oct-13
62 minutes
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11/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Alan Millar on Reasons for Belief, Perception and Reflective Knowledge
2014-Oct-13
49 minutes
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16/6/2014: Elizabeth Barnes on Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics
2014-Jun-23
53 minutes
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2/6/2014: Alix Cohen on Kant on the Ethics of Belief
2014-Jun-09
51 minutes
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19/5/2014: Ulrike Heuer on Intentions and the Reasons for Which We Act
2014-May-27
56 minutes
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12/5/2014: Tim Button on the Weight of Truth
2014-May-27
54 minutes
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28/4/2014: Eileen John on Literature and Disagreement
2014-May-06
61 minutes
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10/3/2014: Jessica Moss on Plato's Appearance/Assent Account of Belief
2014-Mar-17
53 minutes
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24/2/2014: Paul Faulkner on a Virtue Theory of Testimony
2014-Mar-03
55 minutes
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10/2/2014: Conor McHugh on Fitting Belief
2014-Feb-17
53 minutes
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27/1/2014: Robert Pippin on the Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic
2014-Feb-03
52 minutes
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13/1/2014: Nicholas Shea on Exploited Isomorphism and Structural Representation
2014-Jan-20
58 minutes
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2/12/2013: Francesco Berto on Conceiving the Inconsistent
2014-Jan-07
48 minutes
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18/11/2013: Jonathan Lear on Integrating the Non-Rational Soul
2013-Nov-26
59 minutes
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4/11/2013: Tim Mulgan on Ethics for Possible Futures
2013-Nov-09
53 minutes
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21/10/2013: Robert Kane on Acting “of One’s Own Free Will”: New Perspectives on an Ancient Philosophical Problem
2013-Oct-29
54 minutes
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7/10/2013 - 106th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: David Papineau on Sensory Experience and Representational Properties
2013-Oct-11
55 minutes
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3/6/2013: Oliver Pooley on Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time
2013-Jun-10
52 minutes
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20/5/2013: Clayton Littlejohn on the Russellian Retreat
2013-May-29
53 minutes
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13/05/2013: Gary Watson on Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits
2013-May-15
53 minutes
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29/4/2013: Fabian Freyenhagen on Ethical (Self-)Critique
2013-May-08
41 minutes
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22/4/2013: Ian Phillips on Perceiving the Passing of Time
2013-Apr-24
47 minutes
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4/3/2013: Rowan Cruft on Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?
2013-Apr-15
62 minutes
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18/2/2013: John Carriero on Epistemology Past and Present
2013-Feb-25
57 minutes
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4/2/2013: Josh Parsons on Presupposition, Disagreement and Predicates of Taste
2013-Feb-14
53 minutes
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21/1/2013: Tom Stern on Nietzsche, Amor Fati and The Gay Science
2013-Jan-28
54 minutes
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7/1/2013: Clare Chambers on the Marriage-Free State
2013-Jan-14
44 minutes
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19/11/2012: Guy Longworth on Sharing Thoughts About Oneself
2012-Dec-06
56 minutes
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10/12/2012: Maria Alvarez on Agency and Two-Way Powers
2013-Jan-03
45 minutes
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3/12/2012: Angela Breitenbach on Aesthetics in Science: A Kantian Proposal
2012-Dec-06
43 minutes
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5/11/2012: Johannes Roessler on the Epistemic Role of Intentions
2012-Nov-12
42 minutes
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22/10/2012: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra on Resemblance Nominalism, Conjunctions and Truthmakers
2012-Oct-30
24 minutes
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105th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Sarah Broadie on 'Actual Instead'
2012-Oct-16
53 minutes
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18/6/2012: Michael Smith on Agents and Patients
2012-Jun-27
55 minutes
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14/6/2012: Kieran Setiya on Knowing How
2012-Jun-27
50 minutes
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21/5/2012: Michael Thompson on You and I
2012-May-30
79 minutes
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14/5/2012: Frank Jackson on Leibniz's Law and the Philosophy of Mind
2012-May-25
55 minutes
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5/3/2012: Fiona Leigh on Restless Forms and Changeless Causes
2012-Mar-08
52 minutes
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20/2/2012: Heather Logue on Naïve Realism
2012-Feb-24
54 minutes
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6/2/2012: Stacie Friend on Fiction as a Genre
2012-Feb-21
52 minutes
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23/01/2012: Dudley Knowles on Good Samaritans & Good Government
2012-Feb-21
52 minutes
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9/01/2012: Seth Yalcin on Bayesian Expressivism
2012-Feb-21
60 minutes
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5/12/2011: Daniel Rothschild on Expressing Credences
2012-Feb-21
55 minutes
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21/11/2011: David Barnett on Counterfactual Entailment
2012-Feb-21
49 minutes
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7/11/2011: Øystein Linnebo on Reference by Abstraction
2012-Feb-21
60 minutes
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20/10/2011: Gianfranco Soldati on Direct Realism & Immediate Justification
2012-Feb-21
42 minutes
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104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
2012-Feb-19
53 minutes
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