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Philosophy podcast aimed at school students. Fun, informative, engaging. Philosophers at universities and schools talk about loads of questions and topics that come up in Philosophy, Ethics and Political Theory - A-Levels / IB / Highers and even GCSE. Hosted by Simon Kirchin, University of Leeds and Director of the British Philosophical Association. Timetable of topics: https://stkirchin.wixsite.com/mysite/schools-podcast (Music by Alex Grohl)
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Part 1: Introduction to metaphysics of mind, dualism and property dualism. Chalmers's zombies! Part 2 (starts 31min 05 sec): Jackson's Mary argument. Epiphenomenalism, introspection, natural selection. Evaluation. Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin. (Music by Alex Grohl.)
Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, physicalism, mind-brain type identity theory - explanation, arguments for and against. Part 2 (starts 35 min 15 sec): eliminative materialism - explanation, arguments for and against. Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin. (Music by Alex Grohl.)
Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, dualism and substance dualism. Descartes' Indivisibility Argument. Part 2 (starts: 21min40sec): Descartes' Conceivability Argument, criticisms (possibility of other minds, interaction, and category errors). Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin. (Music by Alex Grohl.) [AND APOLOGIES - SK's mic goes funny right at the end. Hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment!]
Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind and physicalism, 'hard' & 'soft' behaviourism. Part 2 (starts 29min50sec): dualism against behaviourism, Putnam's super-Spartans, circularity and multiple realisability, asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others, and evaluations. Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel talk with Simon Kirchin. (Music by Alex Grohl.)
Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind, functionalism, advantages. Part 2 (starts: 24min55sec): inverted qualia, no qualia, Mary argument, zombies, Turing/Chinese room/AI and evaluation of functionalism. Sally Latham, Mabel Rowe and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent/Leeds). (Music by Alex Grohl.)
Part 1: Types of knowledge, definitions. Part 2 (18min15sec): Innate knowledge: Plato's Meno, Leibniz, Locke and Hume. Part 3 (41min15sec): 'Intuition and Deduction' - Hume's Fork, Descartes' Cogito, clear and distinct ideas, Trademark Argument, etc. Sally Latham and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Part 1: Intro, Kalam and Aquinas (first 2 ways). Part 2 (23min25sec): Descartes and criticisms. Part 3 (41min45sec) Aquinas (3rd way), Leibniz and evaluation. Matt Harris and Michael Lacewing chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Part 1: Scepticism: definition and purpose, brains in vats, scepticism vs. normal disbelief. Part 2 (25min25sec): Descartes: waves of doubt and his responses. Part 3 (45min45sec): empiricist responses (Locke, Berkeley and Russell), and reliabilism. Beth Mackintosh and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Part 1: Introduction (the 'Omni-God'), eternal and everlasting. Part 2 (16min50sec): Foreknowledge and time. Part 3 (33min35sec): Stone Paradox and Euthyphro dilemma. Sally Latham and Michael Platt chat with Simon Kirchin (Univ of Kent).
Part 1: introduction, Aquinas, Paley and Hume. Part 2 (starts 25min05sec): Swinburne, evolution, fine-tuning and evaluation. Michael Platt and Matt Harris chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl.]
Key Terms! Part 1: assertion/claim, proposition, true/false, justification, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori. / Part 2 (starts: 22min05sec): argument, deductive/inductive/abductive, consistent/inconsistent/contradiction, proof, antecedent/consequent, tautology, dilemma (and Catch 22), paradox, fallacy, slippery slope. / Part 3 (starts 59min35sec): necessary/contingent, objective/subjective, agape, telos, via negativa and via positiva. DaN McKee and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Part 1 - intro, theory of knowledge, tripartite definition. Part 2 (starts 22min15sec) - Gettier, infallibilism. Part 3 (starts 45min47sec) - no false lemmas, reliabilism, virtue epistemology, and final reflections. Sally Latham and Paul Moore-Bridger chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent). [Music by Alex Grohl]
Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) summarizes some of the main points and questions about the problem of evil. Check out the in-depth discussion for more details. [Music by Alex Grohl]
1st part - intro and Augustine. 2nd part (starts: 32min25sec) - Plantinga and more on free will. 3rd part (starts: 58min50sec) - Hick and concluding reflections. Matt Harris, Mabel Rowe and Sophie Williams chat with Simon Kirchin (University of Kent). [Music by Alex Grohl]
Especially good for AQA and EDexcel. Part 1 - intro, cognitivism and noncognitivism, Ayer and logical positivism. Part 2 (starts at 29min50sec) - Hick, Flew/Mitchell/Hare and Wittgenstein. Sally Latham, Sophie Williams, Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) introduces natural law ethics and situation ethics. Check our our in-depth discussion too. [Music by Alex Grohl]
1st part - Natural Law intro. 2nd part (starts at 19min30sec) - Natural Law Discussion. 3rd part (starts at 37min20sec)- Situation Ethics. Michael Platt and Toby Bownass chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
Simon Kirchin (Kent) chats and introduces the ontological arg. Check out our in-depth discussion as well. [Music by Alex Grohl]
1st Part - Anselm and Gaunilo. 2nd Part (starts at 21min) - Descartes, Kant and Malcolm. Michael Platt, Paul Moore-Bridger and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
A short episode where Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) introduces the topic of perceptual knowledge. Check out the in-depth episode for more discussion and analysis. [Music by Alex Grohl.]
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