#philosophy bites

[klampersonlighed]

As I got older I have become more and more a person commited to writing books, expressing myself, producing language, mingling with others, getting devoted to my grandchildren and so on. I now think that I love the human enterprise more and more, I am getting more and more sociable. In which case I am inclined to equate god with life and just commitment to life and enjoyment of life.

Don cupitt on non-realism about god.

Philosophy bites podcast

[undividedspace]

PHILOSOPHY BITES from David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton

[miriamcollectswords-blog]

There's nothing in the physical world which corresponds to the experience of music... Now, there are sounds... Sequences of sounds... But what we hear in those sequences are things like melodies, harmonies, tension and release, great contests of forces... Physics has no room for those.

Roger Scruton on the Sacred

[syndromedelapageblanche]

What, if anything, is wrong with swearing? Rebecca Roache discusses the philosophy of swearing in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

[sensiblephilosophy]

[sensiblephilosophy]

Peter Singer famously argued that many of us are guilty of speciesism in our dealings with animals - we give unreasonable priority to humans over other the interests of other animals. Speciesism is like racism and other prejudices in many...

I suggested Shelly Kagan to Nigel Warburton on Twitter awhile ago, so I like to think it’s at least partly because of me he’s finally on there.

[calmlycomely-blog]

Power is at its most effective when it's least observable.

Steven Lukes on power

[soycrates]

British philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist Anthony Appiah is not afraid of some of the toughest ethical issues that face us. In this interview for Philosophy Bites he defends what he has labelled 'Cosmopolitanism' an ethical position he has developed in greater detail in his book of the same name.