EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THE PAST

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From 23 May 2007 to 27 May 2009 to we discussed chapters from the book Philosophy - Basic Readings edited by Nigel Warburton. The chapter titles are given in the table below.

From 10 June 2009 to 11 Nov 2009 we discussed articles by A.C.Grayling published in Prospect magazine.

12 Apr 06 Wittgenstein and Language
26 Apr 06 What is Reality?
10 May 06 Culture and Communication
24 May 06 The Meaning of Life
14 June 06 The Death Penalty
28 June 06 Moral Dilemmas
12 July 06 More Moral Dilemmas
27 Sept 06 David Hume and Adam Smith
25 Oct 06 Free Will
8 Nov 06 Rousseau
22 Nov 06 Tibetan Buddhism
10 Jan 07 Have we got an open society?
24 Jan 07 The ubiquity of evolution - Part 1
14 Feb 07 The ubiquity of evolution - Part 2
28 Feb 07 Reward and punishment
14 Mar 07 Personal identity
28 Mar 07 The God delusion
25 Apr 07 The God delusion (continued)
9 May 07 The devil and scripture
23 May 07 Ch 16 About ethics (Singer)
13 Jun 07 Ch 27 Political philosophy (Wolff)
27 Jun 07 Ch 35 About the things we may doubt (Descartes)
11 Jul 07 Ch 40 Why expect the sun to rise tomorrow? (Law)
Ch 41 Nature (Sartre)
25 Jul 07 Ch 47 'The diary' and 'The beetle in the box' (Wittgenstein)
26 Sep 07 Ch 53 Art and mimesis in Plato's 'Republic' (Burnyeat)
10 Oct 07 Ch 17 The categorical imperative (Kant)
24 Oct 07 Ch 28 Of the natural condition of mankind (Hobbes)
14 Nov 07 Ch 36 Descartes (Williams and Magee)
28 Nov 07 Ch 42 The problem of demarcation (Popper)
12 Dec 07 Ch 48 Sensations and brain processes (Smart)
9 Jan 08 Ch 54 Significant Form
Clive Bell
23 Jan 08 Ch 18 The Experience Machine
Robert Nozick
13 Feb 08 Ch 29 Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin
27 Feb 08 Ch 38 Of the Origin of Ideas
David Hume
12 Mar 08 Ch 43 Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries
Thomas Kuhn
9 Apr 08 Ch 49 Minds, Brains and Programs
John R Searle
23 Apr 08 Ch 55 The Intentional Fallacy
W.K.Wimsatt Jr & Monroe C.Beardsley
14 May 08 Ch 1 to 7  What is philosophy?
28 May 08 Ch 30 A New Map of Censorship
Ronald Dworkin
11 June 08 Ch 19 Higher and Lower Pleasures
John Stuart Mill
25 June 08 Ch 44 How to defend Society against Science
Paul Feyerabend
9 July 08 Ch 39 Disembodied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real
Hubert Dreyfus
23 July 08 Ch 50 What is it like to be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel
10 Sep 08 Ch 56 Of the standard of taste
David Hume
24 Sep 08 Ch 31 Playthings of alien forces: Karl Marx and the rejection of the market economy
Jonathan Wolff
8 Oct 08 Ch 20 A critique of Utilitarianism
Bernard Williams
Ch 21 The Solzhenitsyn Principle
Jonathan Glover
22 Oct 08 Ch 46 Wittgenstein and the two cultures
Ray Monk
12 Nov 08 Ch 51 Where am I?
Daniel C. Dennett
Ch 52 The disembodied lady
Oliver Sacks
26 Nov 08 Ch 34 All animals are equal
Peter Singer
10 Dec 08 Medieval Philosophy (DVD)
14 Jan Augustine and Aquinas and their Effect on Society
28 Jan 09 Ch 22 Neo-Aristotelianism
Rosalind Hursthouse
11 Feb 09 Ch 57 Two Paradoxes
Michael Clark
25 Feb 09 Ch 25 Relativism
Bernard Williams
11 Mar 09 Ch 58 Photography and Representation
Roger Scruton
25 Mar 09 Ch 24 Moral Luck
Thomas Nagel
8 Apr 09 Ch 32 Discrimination and Sexual Justice
Janet Radcliffe Richards
22 Apr 09 Ch 33 Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Martin Luther King Jr
13 May 09 Ch 59 What is Wrong with a Forgery
Alfred Lessing
27 May 09 Ch 26 Desire and the Meaning of Life
Simon Blackburn
10 June 09 Political Correctness
24 June 09 Is there a difference between 'moral' and'ethical'?
8 July 09 Why would anyone wish to believe that he or she is a combination of a body and a disembodied mind or soul?
9 Sept 09 The legend on Prince Harry's cap read "We do bad things to bad people." What do we think of this interesting ethical principle?
23 Sept 09 Does being happy make us good, or vice versa?
14 Oct 09 Can the past entitle us to apologies, reparations or recognition today?
28 Oct 09 If justice is relative, how has it inspired so many reform movements?
11 Nov 09 Can ethics be derived from evolution by natural selection?