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Daisy Dixon on Depraved Art

Can a work of art be immoral? What does that mean? Daisy Dixon, author of Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

23m 57s

Oct 11

Heather Widdows on the Beauty Ideal

Which physical characteristics does a woman have to have to be considered beautiful? Are there many different cultural variations on this? Heather Widdows, author of Perfect Me, thinks that today there is a single set of charactestics and that pressure to conform with these has p ... Show More

19m 4s

Sep 21

Miranda Fricker on Blame

We blame people, and sometimes we blame institutions. Miranda Fricker investigates the nature of blame and its functions, draws some important distinctions, and considers the metaphysical implications of this practice.

23m 34s

Apr 2025

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in ... Show More

59m 2s

Dec 2011

PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge

Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948).

33m 23s

Dec 2019

Then and Now: Pierre Bourdieu

Episode 3 This Anthropology Then and Now episode is all about the French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher, Pierre Bordieu.  Along with your host Maui Voskova and Keito Waldrip, guests Jessica Roessler an ... Show More

7m 57s

May 2022

Episode 43: Karl Morris

Karl Morris is a highly regarded golf coach, an author of many books, and a podcast host. This conversation with Rupert explores the non-dual perspective on the illusory versus true self and the relevance of this perspective to performance in sp ... Show More

1h 18m

Mar 2024

Catherine Malabou on the Clitoris, AI, Anarchism, Hegel, Marx… and much more!

Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou to discuss her latest books on anarchism and clitoris, Artificial Intelligence, domination, films and culture, the role of philosophy, and a lot of other topics. You can listen to our podcast here: h ... Show More

1h 12m

Oct 2004

Sartre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, the French novelist, playwright, and philosopher who became the king of intellectual Paris and a focus of post war politics and morals. Sartre's own life was coloured by jazz, affairs, Simone de Beauvoir and the intellectual camar ... Show More

42m 5s

Jul 2024

Organisms

In episode 107 of Overthink, David and Ellie take up a philosophical perspective on biology’s squirmiest concept: the organism. From Kant’s distinction between organisms and mechanisms, to Deleuze and Guattari’s infamous call for ‘bodies without organs,’ they uncover and question ... Show More

48m 3s

Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the...