"How should I live my life?" This is a question that many of us think to ourselves at some point. It was a question that the Ancient Greeks were obsessed with, and the field of Ethics has built up around it.
Aristotle thought an ethical life that of a virtuous person; this runs counter to our modern conception of ethics as centering on actions. Joining me this week to discuss Aristotelian Ethics and its modern form Virtue Ethics was Lecturer of Philosophy at Edinburgh and the Open Universities Dr Stephen Watt. You can download the episode here:
Virtue Ethics Show
If you would like to read any more about Virtue Ethics you can find Rosalind Hursthouse's Stanford Encyclopedia article on the subject here:
Virtue Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia
And Richard Kraut's Stanford Encyclopedia article on Aristotle's Ethics here:
Aristotle's Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia
Next week I will be talking to Dr Tillmann Vierkant about free will and the implications of modern neuroscience on how we conceive of it, if you have any questions for Dr Vierkant leave them below, if not you can listen live next Friday at 12 30 (freshair.org.uk) or download it as always from here.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Extended Mind
Can the mind extend beyond the brain? Can our minds extend into some of the tools we use? The Extended Mind thesis thinks that in some cases it can.
With me to discuss the Extended Mind thesis this week was Prof Mike Wheeler (Stirling) and Dr Tom Roberts (Edinburgh). The show can be downloaded here:
The Extended Mind Show
Also if you would like any more information about the Extended Mind Mike has written brilliant paper "Defending Extended Functionalism":
Mike Wheeler - Defending Extended Functionalism
And a book, "Reconstructing the Cognitive World":
Mike Wheeler - Reconstructing the Cognitive World
Next week I will be talking to Dr Stephen Watt about ancient and modern virtue ethics, if you have any questions for Dr Watt leave them below, if not you can listen live next Friday at 12 30 (freshair.org.uk) or download it as always from here.
With me to discuss the Extended Mind thesis this week was Prof Mike Wheeler (Stirling) and Dr Tom Roberts (Edinburgh). The show can be downloaded here:
The Extended Mind Show
Also if you would like any more information about the Extended Mind Mike has written brilliant paper "Defending Extended Functionalism":
Mike Wheeler - Defending Extended Functionalism
And a book, "Reconstructing the Cognitive World":
Mike Wheeler - Reconstructing the Cognitive World
Next week I will be talking to Dr Stephen Watt about ancient and modern virtue ethics, if you have any questions for Dr Watt leave them below, if not you can listen live next Friday at 12 30 (freshair.org.uk) or download it as always from here.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Podcast Feed
If you click on the title to this post you'll go to the podcast feed that freshair have loving set up for us:
You can also click on the links above to go to the freshair websites of any of the episodes at any time.
Or you can go to the bottom this page and there you will find all the episodes.
You can also click on the links above to go to the freshair websites of any of the episodes at any time.
Or you can go to the bottom this page and there you will find all the episodes.
Time Travel
Is time travel logically, ontologically and metaphysically possible. Is is some thing that scientists take seriously and is it something that we should take seriously.
For the first episode of Erratic Thinking I am joined by Dr Alasdair Richmond of Edinburgh University to discuss the philosophical implications of time travel. Click on the link below or the title of this post to download the episode.
Erratic Thinking - Time Travel
Thank you very much to Alasdair
For the first episode of Erratic Thinking I am joined by Dr Alasdair Richmond of Edinburgh University to discuss the philosophical implications of time travel. Click on the link below or the title of this post to download the episode.
Erratic Thinking - Time Travel
Thank you very much to Alasdair
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ready to go!
Erratic Thinking has a broadcast time!
It will be available live at freshair.org.uk every Friday from 12 30 to 1, starting on Friday the 12th of February. After the show has been broadcast live a version will also become available here to download here and keep for ever and ever.
The first show will be at 12 30 on the 12th of February and it will be Dr Alasdair Richmond (University of Edinburgh) talking about the paradoxes and possibilities of time travel, don't miss it.
It will be available live at freshair.org.uk every Friday from 12 30 to 1, starting on Friday the 12th of February. After the show has been broadcast live a version will also become available here to download here and keep for ever and ever.
The first show will be at 12 30 on the 12th of February and it will be Dr Alasdair Richmond (University of Edinburgh) talking about the paradoxes and possibilities of time travel, don't miss it.
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