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Saturday 20 March 2010
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This week, a conversation about the role of the public intellectual with A.C. Grayling, one of Britain's foremost philosophers and public intellectuals. An extraordinarily wide-ranging writer, Grayling has written plays, he's written works of technical philosophy and he's written about great philosophers: including books on Berkeley, Russell and Wittgenstein and a biography of René Descartes More recently, he's turned his attention to historical topics, with a book on the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII, and that's one of the issues that we discuss with him today: what is the role of the philosopher in assessing the moral validity of the Allies' prosecution of the war against barbarism?
Saturday 13 March 2010
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What I am telling you is false. But if I tell you that what I am saying is false and it is false, then what I am now saying is true, but if it's true then to say that it's false is false. Join us today as we go around in paradoxical circles with Peter Cave, who teaches philosophy in the UK at the Open University and City University, London.
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Saturday 06 March 2010
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The Enlightenment, that great ferment of ideas in eighteenth-century Europe, has its enemies today on both left and right. This week, we hear a talk from the Franco-Bulgarian philosopher Tzvetan Todorov, author of the recently published 'In Defence of the Enlightenment', who argues for an Enlightenment approach to developing and understanding an open and just modern society.
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Saturday 27 February 2010
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You are in a darkened lecture hall looking at a patch of red projected onto a screen in front of you. What's involved in "seeing red"? This week, we meet the philosopher and psychologist Nicholas Humphrey who uses the phenomenon of seeing red as way into the mystery of consciousness.
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