Julian Baggini and guests Myisha Cherry and Catarina Dutilh Novaes explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on the role of anger in thinking and the need to defer

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep6

Apr 24th, 2023 44m 10s

Julian Baggini and guests Simon Kirchin and Anil Seth explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on the problems of "reification" – thinking of concepts as though t

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep5

Apr 13th, 2023 42m 5s

Julian Baggini and guests Nilanjan Das and Leah Kalmanson explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on the value of contemplative practices, and shifting the burde

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Stand-up Philosophy

Mar 31st, 2023 35m 14s

We’re at the midpoint of series five of Microphilosophy, in which I’ve been discussing the habits and virtues of highly effective thinkers with guest philosophers. We’ll be resuming these episodes after the easter break. For now, here’s a recor

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep4

Mar 17th, 2023 51m 48s

Julian Baggini and guests Clare Chambers and Lucy O'Brien explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on the principles of charity and sincerity, and the need to abi

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep3

Mar 9th, 2023 50m 26s

Julian Baggini and guests Peter Adamson and Tom Kasulis explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on how to use thought experiments and being misled by concepts. T

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep2

Mar 3rd, 2023 39m 18s

Julian Baggini and guests Patricia Churchland and Owen Flanagan explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. Their focus today is on following the facts, without assuming they speak for t

How to Think Like a Philosopher Ep1

Feb 23rd, 2023 41m 4s

In this discussion recorded live at St Georges, Bristol, philosopher Julian Baggini and guests Lisa Bortolotti and Rebecca Buxton explore how the exemplary habits and principles of the best philosophers can help us to think better. They took as

Bonus

Hope I Get Old before I Die

Nov 25th, 2022 22m 11s

This edition was dropped the week that the legendary guitarist Wilko Johnson died, aged 75. Back in February 2014 I interviewed Wilko at the Giants of Rock Festival in Minehead. We talked about getting old but continuing to rock, a life-affirm

The Art of the Moog

Apr 1st, 2022 23m 40s

I talked to Will Gregory and Graham Fitkin when they visited St Georges in Bristol in 2018 to perform with Will Gregory’s Moog Ensemble, Will Gregory is best known as half of Goldfrapp and is also a composer and producer. Graham Fitkin a compos

Take your mind for a ride

Mar 18th, 2022 38m 44s

Today’s episode features another Philosophy salon recorded live pre-Covid at St George’s in Bristol. This time, we’re talking about the perhaps unlikely and surprising connections between philosophy and … cycling. I was sceptical too but after

Anarchism Today

Mar 4th, 2022 40m 10s

In our tumultuous times, is anarchism a fate to be dreaded or could it actually be part of the solution? In her definitive history of anarchism The Government of No One, Ruth Kinna argues that anarchism in various forms has made a series of cha

The history of philosophy in English

Feb 25th, 2022 48m 28s

Jonathan Rée rejects the ‘condescending smugness’ of traditional histories of philosophy. In his new history of philosophy in English Witcraft he abandons the standard, tired narratives and presents the history of philosophy as a haphazard seri

Existentialism Today

Feb 18th, 2022 52m 4s

This was recorded at one of my series of Philosophy Salons at St Georges, Bristol. My guests were Kate Kirkpatrick, the author of the biography Becoming Beauvoir: and Jonathan Webber, author of Rethinking Existentialism. We covered a lot of gro

Learning from Asian Philosophy

Feb 12th, 2022 41m 35s

Bryan van Norden and Jin Y. Park are two of the world’s leading philosophers working at the intersection of east and west. Park’s book Buddhism and Postmodernity combines Zen and Huayan Buddhism with Continental philosophy, while van Norden’s b

How can we talk about trans rights and women’s rights? Pt3

Feb 4th, 2022 27m 34s

In 2021 I facilitated a lengthy discussion between two philosophers who take different views on the best way to advance trans rights about why the debate is such a fraught one, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Mary Leng. This is the third and final p

How can we talk about trans rights and women's rights? Pt2

Jan 28th, 2022 31m 28s

n 2021 I facilitated a lengthy discussion between two philosophers who take different views on the best way to advance trans rights about why the debate is such a fraught one, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Mary Leng. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co

How can we talk about trans rights and women's rights? Pt1

Jan 18th, 2022 39m 44s

Hierarchy and Inequality in Nietzsche and Falsafa

Dec 2nd, 2016 22m 48s

In many ways medieval Islamic philosophy and the works of Friedrich Neitzsche couldn’t be more different. But as we see in this podcast, both provide interesting, rich challenges to modern western egalitarian ideals. Guests are Carlos Fraenkel

Confucian Harmony and Freedom

Nov 12th, 2016 18m 56s

Harmony is as core a value in classical Chinese thought as Freedom is in the modern west and it is often thought that the two conflict, with major political implications. However, the three broadly Confucian scholars in this episode deny there

Age, Expertise, Gender and Hierarchy

Sep 22nd, 2016 21m 31s

The third podcast in a series examining the relationship and tensions between hierarchy and equality sees three very different scholars all with roots in China asking us to rethink hierarchy through the lenses of history, economics, feminism, d

The Confucian Uses of Hierarchy

Aug 16th, 2016 23m 29s

This is the second podcast in a series examining the theme of the relationship and tensions between hierarchy and equality. This episode looks at Confucian perspectives on the issues. My guests are Stephen C. Angle, Mansfield Freeman Professor

Freedom and Harmony, Intimate and global

Jul 20th, 2016 24m 52s

This is the second podcast in a series examining the theme of the relationship and tensions between harmony and freedom. This episode approaches this issue from the intimate to the global. My guests are Philip Pettit, L.S. Rockefeller Universi

Harmony and Freedom in Africa, India and Europe

May 16th, 2016 20m 29s

Are freedom and harmony political goals that complement or compete with each other? Joining me are Rajeev Bhargava, Director of the Institute of Indian Thought at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Anton Koch, professor of philos

Hierarchy and Equality in America

Apr 13th, 2016 23m 24s

In a culture that values equality, what is the role and function of hierarchy in America today? With Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stephen Macedo and Carlin Romano. Produced in association with the Berggruen Institute’s Philosophy and Culture Centre. H