Contributor(s): Professor James Ladyman, Professor Martha Nussbaum, Lord Rees of Ludlow, Richard Smith | James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and co-editor of the British Journal of the Philosophy of Science. Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Lord R ... Show More
Dec 2010
Conflicts, Civil Society, and Democratic Development in Burma
Contributor(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor Mary Kaldor, Amartya Sen, Maung Zarni and others | Aung San Suu Kyi, the recently released Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate, speaks live via videolink and telephone from Burma to an au ... Show More
1h 43m
Nov 2017
Lakatos Award Lectures [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Brian Epstein, Dr Thomas Pradeu | The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years. The 2015 award winner Dr Pradeu will speak on W ... Show More
1h 36m
May 2024
Among the Ancients II: Plato
Plato’s Symposium, his philosophical dialogue on love, or eros, was probably written around 380 BCE, but it’s set in 416, during the uneasy truce between Athens and Sparta in the middle of the Peloponnesian War. A symposium was a drinking party, though Socrates and his friends, h ... Show More
12m 16s
Jun 2020
Paul Rahe, Hans von Spakovsky, Dan Coupland, & Matt Gaetano
TOPICS: Standardized testing, vote-by-mail plans, classic children's literature, & returning to teach at Hillsdale<br><br>Host Scot Bertram talks with Hillsdale history professor Paul Rahe about two recent essays on the use of standardized tests in the admissions process. Hans vo ... Show More
52m 2s
Jan 2021
Khalil Habib, Peter Wood, Matthew Gaetano, & Matthew Hoenig
TOPICS: Nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism, a response to the 1619 Project, Pico's Oration, and a Hillsdale alum digging for fossils<br><br>Host Scot Bertram talks with Khalil Habib, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale, to define nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism. Peter Wood, ... Show More
50m 26s