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Sinopsis
The Forum for European Philosophy
Episodios
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From the vault: A Right to Migrate?
25/05/2020Most would agree that we have a right to leave our country of origin. But since this usually means arriving in another, do we also have a right to immigrate? Chris Bertram, Emily Dugan, Matthew Gibney, and Madeleine Sumption discuss these and related questions.
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From the vaults: Being Alone
19/05/2020In this episode, John Burnside, Barbara Taylor, and James Warren explore the idea of loneliness and solitude, in philosophy, art and politics, as well as in our own lives.
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From the vaults: Feminism
19/05/2020What is the future for feminism? How does feminism interact with concerns about other forms of oppression, such as those based on race and class?
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From the vaults: The Good Life
19/05/2020What makes a life good? Is the good life a happy life? We address the meaning and significance of the ‘good life’ today.
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From the vaults: Sleep
19/05/2020Marina Benjamin, Russell Foster and Simon Morgan discuss the science, literature and philosophy of sleep.
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From the vaults: Protest Art
12/05/2020Sacha Golob/ Robert Montgomery/ Stephanie Schwartz Listen to the recording here or on YouTube What is protest art? What are its limits and what are its possibilities? Might there be a unique role for art in protest or does the political statement diminish the art? And once a piece of art becomes popular … Continued
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From the vaults: A Right to Be Believed?
12/05/2020Louise Ellison, Gloria Origgi, and Stephen Vullo discuss whether the principle of innocent until proven guilty can be reconciled with believing the victims of sexual offences
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From the Vaults: Streaming Consciousness
12/05/2020Eimear McBride and Kaye Mitchell discuss what literature and philosophy can tell us about the self
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From the vaults: Anatomy of a Language
12/05/2020In this episode, we probe the philosophical underpinnings of grammar and how it functions in communication, understanding and humour.
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From the vaults: Reason and Rhetoric
12/05/2020Political discussion often turns ugly. John Crace, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, William Outhwaite, and Jo Phillips explore whether spin and negative campaigning are an unavoidable, even essential, feature of political life.
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From the vaults: Bad Language
12/05/2020In this episode, Emma Byrne, John Gallagher and Rebecca Roache navigate the deeper issues around swearing, slurring, and slander.
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From the vaults: Parallel Universes
05/05/2020Fay Dowker, Eleanor Knox, and Simon Saunders discuss the strange consequences of the ‘many-worlds interpretation’ of quantum mechanics and why it's so controversial.
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From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science
05/05/2020Eleanor Knox, Bryan Roberts, and Mairi Sakellariadou discuss why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like imaginary numbers, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing the natural world
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From the Vaults: The Trouble with Numbers
05/05/2020How seriously should we take philosophical worries about mathematics? And should mathematical results ever force our philosophical hands? Nicholas Bingham, Tim Button, Mary Leng, and Adam Ostaszewski on the trouble with numbers.
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From the Vaults: Chaos
05/05/2020Paul Glendinning and Charlotte Werndl discuss the insights gained from chaos research about unpredictability, as well as the evolution of mathematical ideas.
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From the Vaults: Time Travel
05/05/2020Adam Roberts, Bryan Roberts, and Emily Thomas discuss time travel, and how thinking and writing about it has changed science and philosophy.
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From the vaults: Black Holes
05/05/2020Stephen Baxter, Amelie Saintonge, and Karim Thébault discuss the science, philosophy, and science fiction of black holes
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From the vaults: Strong Feelings
28/04/2020How did we end up thinking that reason could ever do without emotion?
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From the vaults: Prejudice
28/04/2020are we more or less prejudiced than at other points in our history? And is prejudice always wrong, or even avoidable? If it is avoidable, how can this be achieved? We put these questions to Marco Cinnirella, Katharine Jenkins, Joe Mulhall, and Amir Saeed.
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From the vaults: Unrequited Love
28/04/2020Ulrika Carlsson, Stephen Grosz, and Erin Plunkett explore responses to unrequited love in philosophy, psychoanalysis and art. Should we mourn or celebrate it? What can it teach us about ourselves?