The Philosopher's Zone 2008-04-19
Time for philosophers
Time, as we all know, is money, but what else is it? Would it exist if nothing were changing or moving? Does it really have a direction? Are the future and the past real? Will the future be infinite? Was (or is) the past infinite? These and other questions will be tackled this week on The Philosopher's Zone - if there's time
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- Karl Popper and the logic of the market
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- Music and the Enlightenment
- 'It's alive!' Frankenstein, science and philosophy in the Romantic period
- The ethics of keeping your mouth shut - the case of the buried bodies
- Justify my love
- Sayyid Qutb and Islamist ideology
- Light from the North - The Scottish Enlightenment
- Worrying about China
- Uprootedness and national conflicts
- Objective truth
- Stoics at war
- Literature, law and ethics - The case of <em>Billy Budd</em>
- Damned if you do and damned if you don't
- Taking God for granted (or not)
- John Gray at the Writers' Festival - Part 2
- John Gray at the Writers' Festival
- Egalitarianism and fairness
- The only good philosopher is a dead one
- Ethics in the public realm - Bill Henson and Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
- Mai '68
- To be or not to be (part 2)
- To be or not to be (Part 1)
- Practical philosophy and speculative fiction
- Doing without a ruler: in defence of anarchism
- Morality and political violence
- Time for philosophers
- Steam-age philosophy
- Beautiful one day, metaphysical the next
- Buffy the Concept Slayer
- Islam and philosophy - Tariq Ramadan
- Philosophy and the Natural World - Val Plumwood
- Gavagai!
- Philosophy in another tongue
- Why there's no getting away from beauty...
- Philosophers advising government
- The Emergence of Science, Part 2
- The emergence of science
- Philosophical love stories
- Philosophical love stories
- Philosophy for Lunch
- Philosophy for lunch
- Minds and Computers
- Philosophy in schools
- Molyneux's problem
- The Apology of Socrates
- The Apology of Socrates
- The music of Hades
- The anatomy of a discovery
- What's social (and what's just) about social justice?
- Considering consideration
- The dangers of teaching philosophy
- Philosophy, treason, plot
- Ethics on the Couch
- Philosopher Kings
- Thinking and judging with Hannah Arendt
- The great divide
- The naming of things
- Sentimentality from Adam Smith to Alfred Hitchcock
- Morality and restraint
- Can environmental philosophy save the world?
- Metaphysics Down Under
- The strange case of Australian idealism
- The strange birth of Idealism
- The strange birth of Idealism
- What is the worst argument in the world?
- Paraconsistency: the wilder shores of logic
- From a logical point of view
- Philosophical love stories
- Philosophy from a female point of view
- Beginning philosophy right here and now
- Philosophy for Lunch
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- Philosophy in a test tube
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