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An introduction to the history of Western philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. Each programme features a contemporary philosopher who discusses influential thinkers and their ideas. 1:...
An edited recording of a tutorial by Rohan Collier in which students discuss the paper presented by Bernard Williams in A102/14.
Jack Sadler was born in 1887 and died in 1960. During that time, the Tyneside pacifist lived through two World Wars, and refused to fight in either of them. His principled stand led to his imprisonment as a...
Bernard Williams, Provost of King’s College Cambridge, presents a critical paper on the problems of Utilatarianism.
In Part 1, Professor Sir Alfred Ayer discusses moral judgements, which are not true or false, nor derivable from facts: they are dependent on human choice, and used both to express attitudes and to encourage...
Part 2: On the analysis of freedom, not only is the notion of desert undermined, but also that of justice and many of our attitudes to others and ourselves. It undermines both the possibility of reconciling...
Shows why existence precedes essence and offers the beginner a basic understanding of the revolt agains the absurd. Asks what is reality? Do objects have being in themselves? Are humans sophisticated...
Part 1: A talk by Professor Phillips Griffiths. At a common sense level the existence of evil is incompatible with the existence of God defined as possessing absolute power, knowledge and goodness....
Recordings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s ‘Christmas Discussions’ at the University of Warwick. The recordings are in four pairs. The first of each pair is a talk by an eminent philosopher, the...
American haematologist Martin Cline was the first doctor to perform a genetic engineering experiment on a human being and was disciplined by the establishment. The programme explores the ethical and moral...
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