From 2 February
In this programme, I’m reporting on the debate surrounding the growth of the well-being agenda, and talking to the winner of the Lakatos prize for the philosophy of Science, Samir Okasha, about evolution.
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From 5 January
This special edition comes from Puebla, Mexico, at the Ciudad de las Ideas (City of Ideas) festival. The guests are Randy Cohen, writer of The New York Times’s The Ethicist column; Bad Thoughts author Jamie Whyte; and “new atheist” Sam Harris.
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From 4 December
In the last Philosophy Monthly of 2009, I’m featuring previously unreleased extracts salvaged from the cutting room floor from six of the best interviews of the year: Michael Frayn, AC Grayling, Jonathan Sacks, Peter Singer, Timothy Williamson and Tony Wright MP.
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From 3 November
In the latest Philosophy Monthly, I’m talking to the playwright, novelist, screenwriter and sometime philosopher, Michael Frayn, and John Armstrong, philosopher-in-residence at Melbourne Business School and the author of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Ideal.
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From 2 October
In the latest Philosophy Monthly, I’m talking to Timothy Williamson about the virtues of rigour, Simon Blackburn about ethics and emotion, and Nina Power about new and forthcoming books. All the books we’ve discussed in the programme are listed here
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From 2 September
It’s an all-atheist edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly, with novelist Christopher Brookmyer and psychologist Susan Blackmore discussing the alleged aggression of the new atheists and a universe without meaning. The ethicist Peter Singer also defends his brand of utilitarianism.
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From 3 August
Suffering is the unifying theme of the latest edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly. Is it all bad or do we need at least some it. Mark Vernon and Havi Carel argue that suffering can be part of the good life, while transhumanist Nick Bostrom makes the moral case for a future when death and disease will be conquered. Janet Radcliffe Richards also talks about suffering as a manifestly bad thing in her incisive critique of muddled morality.
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In the latest edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly, I’m talking to two philosophical antagonists, AC Grayling and John Gray, discussing belief in progress and the power of reason. Plus I meet Labour MP and political theorist Tony Wright, who reveals how much Blair and Brown really care about ideas.
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From 24 June
In this special extra edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly, I’m chairing a discussion between five shortlisted authors for the 2009 Bristol Festival of Ideas book prize. This £10,000 prize is for the best book of ideas published in Britain in 2008. Taking part are Nick Davies (Flat Earth News), Misha Glenny (McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime), Richard Holmes (The Age of Wonder), Mark Leonard (What Does China Think?) and Sara Maitland (A Book of Silence). Also shortlisted was Susan Faludi (The Terror Dream). More information on the prize and the books is here.
The discussion was recorded live at the award ceremony at the Arnolfini Centre, Bristol.
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In the third edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly, I’m off to a new philosophy and music festival at Hay, talking to its founder, Hilary Lawson, radical Tory Philip Blond, and the composer Michael Nyman. Plus I’m debating science and religion on Premier Christian Radio.
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