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Podcasts

The John Locke Lectures

The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. You can listen to Professor Thomas Scanlon's 2009 series entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons', Professor Hartry Field's 2008 lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'and Professor Robert Stalnaker's 2007 lectures series entitled 'Our knowledge of the internal world' here.

Interviews with Philosophers

Below are podcast interviews with members of the Faculty of Philosophy giving their own insight into Philosophy at Oxford. Click on the title to listen in MP3 format.

Adrian Moore on Metaphysics

Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions.
 

John Broome on Rationality

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, gives an explanation of reason and rationality, and then discusses his understanding of the 'the normative question'.
 

Nick Bostrom on Global Catastrophic Risk and Simulation Theory

In this podcast, Professor Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, discusses global catastrophic risks and his earlier work on the simulation theory.
 

Julian Savulescu on Applied Ethics and Human Enhancement

Professor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, talks about the current and future issues in applied ethics, particularly of the new biosciences.
 

Roger Crisp on Aristotle's Ethics

Professor Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, discusses the ethics of Aristotle.
 

Philosophy for Beginners

This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to philosophy, presented by Marianne Talbot, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, will test you on some famous thought experiments and introduce you to some central philosophical issues and to the thoughts of some key philosophers.

A romp through the history of philosophy

Keywords philosophy, pre-socratics, philosophical history.
 

The philosophical method - logic and argument

Keywords philosophy, logic and argument, philosophical method.
 

Ethics and politics

Keywords philosophy, ethical philosophy, political philosophy.
 

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Keywords philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology.
 

Philosophy of language and mind

Keywords philosophy, rationality, consciousness.

 

 

These podcasts and many others can be found on The University of Oxford on iTunes U