GENERAL PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS PODCAST LINKS
Philosophy for Beginners: Intro to Philosophy (5 x 90 minute lectures) – http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/philosophy_for_beginners (From Oxford University Continuing Education Department)
Oxford Undergraduate Lectures on Arguments for and against God’s Existence (8 x 45 minute lectures) – http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/philosophy-religion Lectures cover Properties of God, Ontological Argument, Cosmological Argument, Teleological Argument, Religious Experiences and Miracles and The Problem of Evil. (From Oxford University)
Philosophy and the Science of Human Value, a different and thought-provoking introduction to ethics (25 x 45 min lectures) – http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181 (From Yale University)
Scepticism (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kblc3 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Atheism with Anthony Grayling (15 mins) – http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=240212 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
McCabe on Socratic Method (15 mins) – http://cdn2.libsyn.com/philosophybites/M.M._McCabe_on_Socratic_Method.mp3?nvb=20080824155024&nva=20080825155024&t=0b34163a84bf4adeceaaf (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Morality in the 21st Century (15 mins) – http://cdn4.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Susan_Neiman_on_Morality_in_the_21st_Century.mp3?nvb=20100327083848&nva=20100328084848&t=0b55532169d413e726897 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
AS ETHICS PODCAST LINKS
Absolutism & Relativism, Deontology & Teleology
Extension
- Moral Relativism with Simon Blackburn (15 mins) – http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=249620 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Boghossian against Moral Relativism (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Paul_Boghossian.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Relativism (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hyc8 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Natural Law
Course Content
- Anthony Kenny on Aquinas’ Ethics (15 mins) – http://cdn2.libsyn.com/philosophybites/KennyAquinas.mp3?nvb=20080518092115&nva=20080519092115&t=05b4de85c22beb6e47bdd (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Context
- Aquinas (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mkd63 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Extension
- Double Effect (15 mins) – http://www.open2.net/ethicsbites/trolleys-killing-double-effect.html (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Contraception, Catholicism and Double Effect -(15 mins) http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Luc_Bovens.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Kantian Ethics
Extension
- Duty (45 mins)- – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054935 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Utilitarianism
Course Content
- Utilitarianism by Roger Crisp (15 mins) – http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=235693 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Bentham’s Utilitarianism (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Philip_Schofield_on_Jeremy_Benthams_Utilitarianism.mp 3(From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Utilitariansim and Life and Death Decision Making with Peter Singer (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Peter_Singer_on_Life_and_Death_Decision-Making.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Context
- Mill (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c1cx (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- John Stuart Mill (30 mins) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pp5vb (From BBC Radio Show Great Lives)
Extension
- Consequentialism with Brad Hooker (15 mins) – http://hw.libsyn.com/p/9/0/1/90157b49ee6ee3b8/Hooker1MixSess.MP3?sid=f36a2819fdf1041722b765eb231fdd02&l_sid=18828&l_eid=&l_mid=1729923 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Petit on Consequentialism (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Philip_Pettit_on_Consequentialism.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Religious Ethics
Abortion
Extension
- Utilitariansim and Life and Death Decision Making with Peter Singer (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Peter_Singer_on_Life_and_Death_Decision-Making.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Moral Status of Foetuses, Animals and People in PVS (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Jeff_McMahan_on_Moral_Status_originally_on_Bioethics_Bites.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
The Right to a Child – Fertility Treatment
Course Content
- Warnock on The Right to Have Babies (15 mins) – http://www.open2.net/ethicsbites/right-have-babies.html (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Utilitariansim and Life and Death Decision Making with Peter Singer (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Peter_Singer_on_Life_and_Death_Decision-Making.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Euthanasia
Extension
- Assisted Dying (15 mins) – http://cdn1.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Raymond_Tallis_on_Assisted_Dying.mp3?nvb=20090321200701&nva=20090322201701&t=0f313dbb2bcad83a5365b (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Utilitariansim and Life and Death Decision Making with Peter Singer (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Peter_Singer_on_Life_and_Death_Decision-Making.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Genetic Engineering
Extension
- Designer Babies (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Julian_Savulescu_on_Designer_Babies_originally_on_Bioethics_Bites.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
War & Peace
Context
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (30 mins) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g378b (From BBC Radio Show Great Lives)
Extension
- What is Wrong with Killing in War? (15 mins) – http://www.open2.net/ethicsbites/whats-wrong-killing.html (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Anthony Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime (15 mins) – http://cdn3.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Anthony_Grayling_on_Bombing_Civilians_in_Wartime.mp3?nvb=20081109233030&nva=20081110233030&t=0681d9103e5099b20c9f4 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Killing in War (15 mins) – http://cdn4.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Jeff_McMahan_on_Killing_in_War.mp3?nvb=20091121231550&nva=20091122232550&t=059346955a11f94b99660 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Overviews of Ethics
Extension
- A Romp Through Ethics: Intro to Ethics (7 x 70 minute lectures) – http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/romp-through-ethics-complete-beginners (From Oxford University Continuing Education Department)
- Bioethics – A Brief Introduction (9 x 15 minute lectures)- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/bioethics-introduction (From Oxford University Continuing Education Department.
A2 ETHICS PODCAST LINKS
Meta-Ethics
Free Will and Determinism
– Soft & Hard Determinists + Compatibilists
– Darrow, Honderich, Hume and Locke
– Predestinationism and Religious views on Free Will
– Impact of Genetics, Psychology, Environment and Social Conditioning on Moral Decisions
Course Content
- Free Will (45 mins) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5y9z (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Augustine on God’s Foreknowledge, Freedom and Human Sin (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/augustine-freedom (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
Context
- Augustine’s Life (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/augustine-confessions (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
- David Hume (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015cpfp (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Extension
- Free Will and the Brain (60 mins)- http://philosophynow.org/podcasts/Free_Will_and_the_Brain (From Philosophy Now Website)
- Existentialism (45 mins)- – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547h8 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Laws of Nature (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546x5 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Thomas Pink on Free Will (15 mins) – http://cdn1.libsyn.com/philosophybites/PinkMixSes.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Moral Responsibility (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Gideon_Rosen_on_Moral_Responsibility.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Moral Psychological Experiments and Free Will (15 mins) – http://cdn4.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Walter_Sinnott-Armstrong_on_Moral_Psychology.mp3?nvb=20090502132750&nva=20090503133750&t=0658ddc196aecc9ccbee7 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Laws of Nature (15 mins) – http://209.197.11.109/g9z6c6z5/cds/p/a/b/8/ab8a6dbcaa456972/Helen_Beebee_on_Laws_of_Nature.mp3?sid=96f5b0ad377205a135d62d2045f6a6ec&l_sid=18828&l_eid=&l_mid=2327204&dopvhost=hw.libsyn.com&doppl=884a9f53c4b1ecffc4e1ecff1524e7a0&dopsig=bab00ea0ee571574f5758aee16398e98 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Glover on Personality Disorder and Moral Responsibility (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Jonathan_Glover_on_Personality_DIsorder_and_Morality.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Morality and the Brain (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/David_Eagleman_on_Morality_and_the_Brain.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Moral Responsibility and Consciousness (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Neil_Levy_on_Moral_Responsibility_and_Consciousness.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Neuroscience and Free Will (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Adina_Roskies_on_Neuroscience_and_Free_Will.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Moral Luck (Free Will) (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Fiery_Cushman_on_Moral_Luck.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Molly_Crockett_on_Brain_Chemistry_and_Moral_Decision-Making_originally_on_Bioethics_Bites.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Pickard on Moral Responsibility and Personality Disorder (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Hanna_Pickard_on_Responsibility_and_Personality_Disorder.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Daniel_Dennett_on_Free_Will_Worth_Wanting.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Churchland on Neuroscience and Morality (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Daniel_Dennett_on_Free_Will_Worth_Wanting.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Conscience
– God-given? Innate? Voice of Reason? Upbringing? Authority?
– Augustine, Aquinas, Butler, Newman, Freud, Fromm and Piaget on Conscience
Context
- Aquinas (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mkd63 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Augustine’s Life (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/augustine-confessions (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
- Freud (30 mins) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwc7 (From BBC Radio Show Great Lives)
Extension
- Conscience – Universal Moral Grammar? (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/John_Mikhail_on_Universal_Moral_Grammar.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Virtue Ethics
– Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
– Eudaumonia
– Modern Virtue Ethicists
C ourse Content
- Aristotle’s Ethics with Roger Crisp (20 mins) – http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/interviews_wtih_philosophers (From Oxford University)
- Aristotle’s Ethics with Terence Irwin (15 mins) – http://cdn3.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Terence_Irwin.mp3?nvb=20090404201312&nva=20090405202312&t=0441c58b116f44d77c771 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Virtue (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005489r (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Nature of Virtue with Roger Crisp (15 mins) – http://cdn4.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Roger_Crisp_on_the_Virtues.mp3?nvb=20081012205722&nva=20081013205722&t=04b0ac637eb741c2ba30a (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Environmental Virtues (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Dale_Jamieson_on_Green_Virtues.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Context
- Aristotle’s Life (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/aristotle-life-works (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
Extension
- Aristotle’s Ethics (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/aristotle-ethics (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
- Happiness (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005489g (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Aristotle on Happiness (15 mins) – http://cdn2.libsyn.com/philosophybites/BurnyeatMixSes.MP3?nvb=20081230191114&nva=20081231192114&t=02b8a4a4762a2b443d747 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Environmental Ethics
– Relationship between humans and their environment
– Stewardship – Religious Views
– Secular Views, including Gaia
Course Content
- Environmental Virtues (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Dale_Jamieson_on_Green_Virtues.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Climate Change (15 mins) – http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/climate-change (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Business Ethics
– Businesses & Consumers, Employees & Employers
Course Content
- Business Ethics (15 mins) – http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/ethics/business-ethics (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Sexual Ethics
– Premarital Sex
– Extra-Marital Sex
– Contraception
– Homosexuality
Extension
- Same Sex Marriage (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Les_Green_on_Same_Sex_Marriage.mp3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
The Family (15 mins) http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/the-family (From Philosophy Bites Website)
A2 PHILOSOPHY PODCAST LINKS
Religious Language
– Aquinas and Via Negativa
– Vienna Circle, Ayer and Verificationism
– Flew and Falsification
– Wittgenstein and Language Games
– Tillich and Myth
Course Content
- Logical Positivism (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbsj3 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Context
- Popper (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00773y4 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Aquinas (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mkd63 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Wittgenstein (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054945 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Wittgenstein (30 mins) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184rgn (From BBC Radio Show Great Lives)
- Wittgenstein’s View of Philosophy (15 mins) – http://cdn.libsyn.com/philosophybites/SmithWittMixSess.MP3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Extension
- Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God (15 mins) – http://cdn3.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Don_Cupitt_on_Non-Realism_About_God.mp3?nvb=20081130174137&nva=20081201175137&t=06ec7d6f2cf6950dc6847 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
Experience and Religion
– Religious Writings
– Visions, Voices, ‘Numinous’ Experiences, Conversion Experiences, Corporate Religious Experiences
– William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience
Course Content
- William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s9ftw (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Miracles
– Biblical Concept of Miracle
– David Hume and Wiles on Miracles
– Miracles and the Problem of Evil
Course Content
- Miracles (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dkh78 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Context
- David Hume (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015cpfp (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Extension
- The Limits of Science (60 mins)- http://philosophynow.org/podcasts/The_Limits_of_Science (From Philosophy Now Website)
- Laws of Nature (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546x5 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Nature of God
– God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-benevolent: philosophical questions
– Boethius on eternity and God’s foreknowledge
– Should a good God reward and punish?
Course Content
- Boethius and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/boethius-marenbon (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
- Augustine on God’s Foreknowledge, Freedom and Human Sin (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/augustine-freedom (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
Context
- Augustine’s Life (15 mins)- http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/augustine-confessions (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
- Boethius’ Life (15 mins) – http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/boethius (From Kings College University’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps)
The Soul
– Plato, Aristotle, Hick and Dawkins on the body/soul distinction
– Resurrection and reincarnation
– Disembodied existence
– The afterlife and the problem of evil
Course Content
- The Soul (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548g4 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Heaven (45 mins)- (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9lf (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Hell (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038xb6 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Context
- Materialism (For Religion and Science) (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009ydlj (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
Extension
- The Concept of the Individual (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054631 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- The Mind/Body Problem (45 mins)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9b8 (From BBC Radio Show In Our Time)
- Mind and Body with Tim Crane (15 mins) – http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/CraneMixSess.MP3 (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Personal Identity (15 mins) – http://cdn1.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Christopher_Shields_on_Personal_Identity.mp3?nvb=20081103070152&nva=20081104070152&t=0835855fc55c33a31923f (From Philosophy Bites Website)
- Avicenna’s Argument for the Soul (15 mins) – http://philosophybites.com/2012/11/index.html (From Philosophy Bites Website)