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Exploring Philosophy - Audio

The Open Universitywww3.open.ac.uk
Have you ever considered what being conscious actually means? By choosing to live in a particular state are you consenting to be subject to all its laws? For some there’s an assumption that philosophy might not be relevant to modern life but Dr. Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University argues that many of us today are faced with philosophical questions such as these as we live our lives in the twenty first century. In this collection we ask academics to discuss these questions in addition to other important philosophical issues and concepts such as the morality of abortions and the reconciling a world with evil and a good God. This material forms part of The Open University course A222 Exploring philosophy.
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Episodes

Thought experiments

Thought experiments use hypothetical questions to create philosophical dilemmas.

Jun 13, 201112 min

Personal identity

Nigel Warburton and Professor Anthony Grayling discuss what defines personal identity.

Jun 13, 201110 min

Faith and Reason

Is religious belief based on blind faith or evidence?

Jun 13, 201113 min

The problem of evil

How can a world created by an all powerfull all good God contain so much evil?

Jun 13, 201114 min

Philosophers on abortion

A discussion about morality of abortion and the rights of the foetus and the mother.

Jun 13, 201122 min

Courage to refuse

Can citizens decide which laws to follow for moral reasons?

Jun 13, 201113 min

Descartes, doubt and knowledge

A discussion about how Descartes used doubt as a means to clarifying his understanding of the world.

Jun 13, 201114 min

Cartesian dualism

Dualism suggests that human beings are made of two independent substances, the mind and the body.

Jun 13, 201113 min
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