Philosophy Bites

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Transcripts of podcast interviews.
What is philosophy? -- Ethics. Julian Savulescu on 'Yuk!' ; Simon Blackburn on relativism ; Peter Singer on animals ; Michael Sandel on sport and enhancement ; Alexander Nehamas on friendship -- Politics. Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism ; Miranda Fricker on credibility and discrimination ; Anne Phillips on multiculturalism ; Will Kymlicka on minority rights ; Wendy Brown on tolerance -- Metaphysics and mind. A.W. Moore on infinity ; David Papineau on scientific realism ; Barry Stroud on scepticism ; Hugh Mellor on time ; Tim Crane on mind and body ; Timothy Williamson on vagueness -- Aesthetics. Derek Matravers on the definition of art ; Alain de Botton on the aesthetics of architecture ; Barry C. Smith on wine ; Alex Neill on the paradox of tragedy -- God, atheism, and the meaning of life. Don Cupitt on non-realism about God ; John Cottingham on the meaning of life ; Stephen Law on the problem of evil ; Keith Ward on Eastern and Western idealism ; A.C. Grayling on atheism.
Edmonds and Warburton challenged some of the world's leading philosophers to hold forth on their favorite topics for their podcast, Philosophy bites. The result is a book that give unexpected insights into hot topics spanning ethics, politics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life.

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