#Mar2012

The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders

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4 months ago

Kafka and Philosophy - ABC listen Franz Kafka—author of The Trial, in which a man is unjustly accused and tried, and Metamorphosis, in which a man becomes a giant insect—is perhaps the modernist author most often discussed by philosop...

Sun 4 Mar 2012

Kafka and Philosophy

What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?

- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity

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The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders

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7 months ago

The Myth of Plato and Plato the Myth-maker - ABC listen There’s been a change in the interpretation of Plato.  For centuries, he was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the...

Sun 11 Mar 2012

The Myth of #Plato and Plato the Myth-maker

For centuries, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the other direction.

- with #RickBenitez, #TheUniversityOfSydney
#myth

#Mar2012

The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders

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8 months ago

Thomas Pogge and global fairness - ABC listen In a world in which many humans do not have all their human rights fulfilled, who has what obligations to help bring a better world about? This is a question that, for many years, has exercised the mi...

Sun 18 Mar 2012

Thomas Pogge and global #fairness

In a world in which many humans do not have all their #humanRights fulfilled, how to bring a better world about?

- with #ThomasPogge, Yale University and the Australian National University.

#Kant #JohnRawls #moralPhilosophy

#Mar2012

The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders

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10 months ago

Extending the mind - ABC listen Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that thoughts are not all in the head. The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is...

Sun 25 Mar 2012

Extending the mind

Where does the #mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that #thoughts are not all in the head.

- with #RobertRupert, the University of Colorado

#extendedMind #naturalisticTheory #mentalContent
#Mar2012