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Philosopher's Zone

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Alan Saunders explores the big questions and arguments; he looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy.


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2008-11-08 - The philosophy of cold hard cash

There's not much money in philosophy, but then there's not much philosophy in money, either. In classical times and the Middle Ages, philosophers were often interested in money (in thinking about it, that is) but since then they've tended to ignore the subject. This week, we meet an Australian philosopher who has turned his attention to the neglected subject of cash and its role in our practical and moral lives....

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[ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-11-01 - The John Anderson lectures

John Anderson, the famous and inflential professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1927 to 1958, taught on a wide range of topics, from the ancients to the moderns. This week, we find out what he had to say about the Greeks and about political philosophy....

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[ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-10-25 - Karl Popper and the logic of the market

Karl Popper was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a great advocate of scientific rationality, but what happened when he turned his attention to the more disorderly world of politics and economics? This week, we look at Popper and the free market....

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[ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-10-18 - Why Asian philosophy? - UPDATED

For a long while, Western philosophy has had little to do with the philosophical traditions of India and China. A common view amongst Western philosophers was that all thought in the Asian traditions was not philosophy, but religion or mysticism. But now, slowly, Western philosophers are starting to engage with Asian thought. This week, Graham Priest, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University, talks about what these philosophers are finding there, and why it´s often challenging for someon...

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[ Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-10-11 - Bailouts, capitalism and the financial markets

We are now faced with the seemingly incongruous situation of having an industry that sings the praises of capitalism, and the free markets wanting the state to come in and help prevent its own losses. We´ll also find out about the division between moralists and technicians, and why the artist Damien Hirst might even be partly to blame for letting things get this bad....

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[ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-10-04 - Music and the Enlightenment

The age of a great movement of ideas, the Enlightenment, was also a great age of music: Bach and Handel, Mozart and Haydn. But how did Enlightenment thinkers reflect on music and how does their belief in progress relate to our views of art today?...

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[ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-09-27 - 'It's alive!' Frankenstein, science and philosophy in the Romantic period

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is more than just the story of a man bolting together his own creature from bits of pre-loved human beings; it's a serious examination of the science and philosophy of its day. This week, we look at the ideas behind the book and how a new enthusiasm for electricity and the spirit world animated the young author's work....

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[ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-09-20 - The ethics of keeping your mouth shut - the case of the buried bodies

This week The Philosopher´s Zone looks at what happens when lawyers know more than they are able to tell. What should you do when ethical duty collides with personal morality? We´ll take an infamous American murder trial from the 1970s as our case study...

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[ Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-09-13 - Justify my love

The finely tuned minds of philosophers become curiously blunt and obtuse when the turn their attention to love. Can we talk philosophically of love? Do we love people for their qualities? If so, why we go on loving them when those qualities change? This week, a philosopher looks at one of the most mysterious forces in life....

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[ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-06-14 - The only good philosopher is a dead one

Or the only truly tested philosophy is that of a dead philosopher. When the philosopher dies, the philosophy is put to the test. Does is still seem valid? Or does it fade into irrelevance in the face of eternity? From the Sydney Writers´ Festival, a conversation with Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers....

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[ Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-06-07 - Ethics in the public realm - Bill Henson and drug-resistant tuberculosis

This week, The Philosopher's Zone looks at a couple of current, public ethical issues. It's said that the photographer Bill Henson, whose images were recently seized by the police, didn't intend to produce pornography. Does this mean that the images in question can't be pornography? What is it that makes art art? And tuberculosis, which kills almost as many people each year as AIDS; should we forcibly and indefinitely separate people infected with TB and refuse them access to their family and fr...

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[ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-05-31 - Mai '68

In May 1968, the universities of France and Germany erupted. There were protests, there were sit-ins, there were riots and, among students of philosophy, there was a total rejection of the older generation. Jean-Paul Sartre found himself outflanked from an unexpected direction: the left. This week on The Philosopher's Zone, we look at the consequences of 'les evenements' of 1968 on two influential thinkers: Paul Ricoeur, who suffered at first hand at the University of Nanterre, and Michel Foucau...

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-05-24 - To be or not to be (part 2)

In the second part of our philosophical study of suicide, we look at how attitudes to the act altered when religion began to feature less in philosophers' views of the subject and the focus turned to the autonomy of the individual: it's your life so you can do what you like with it, can't you? And, if not, why not?...

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-05-17 - To be or not to be (Part 1)

Suicide has been a focus of philosophical examination in the West since at least the time of Plato, and for good reason. It raises a lot of difficult questions. What makes behaviour suicidal? Is suicidal behaviour rational and - the question that has obsessed philosophers down the ages - is it morally permissible? This week, the first part of a two-part investigation of this enigmatic and disconcerting phenomenon....

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-05-10 - Practical philosophy and speculative fiction

The philosophy of Vedanta, which derives from the ancient Hindu Scripture, aspires to scientific knowledge about how life is to be lived. This week, we examine its claims. We also look at a new novel that asks what might happen if the work of Plato were to be put into practice. The result? Totalitarianism plus genetic engineering....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-05-03 - Doing without a ruler: in defence of anarchism

The word derives from the Greek—it means 'without a ruler'—and the idea is that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished. This week we are looking at anarchism and why it has mostly played a minor role in political life and philosophy. The autonomous collective that is The Philosopher´s Zone investigates....

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-04-26 - Morality and political violence

War, rebellion and terrorism - together, they constitute a major challenge to the world today. But they also constitute a challenge to morality itself. This week, we talk to the Melbourne philosopher C.A.J. Coady about morality and political violence....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-04-12 - Steam-age philosophy

Two of the inventors of the steam engine differed hugely about the theory behind what they were doing. Did that make a difference to what they did, or does philosophy not matter at all? This week´s program stares into the gap between theory and practice....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-04-05 - Beautiful one day, metaphysical the next

Many Australian trends in philosophy of mind, environmental philosophy, logic and social thought began in Queensland or had a fruitful infancy there. So this week, with the help of Dr Gary Malinas, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, we celebrate the history of deep thought in the sunshine state....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-03-29 - Buffy the Concept Slayer

The problem of evil, the nature of knowledge, the moral demands of duty -- all of them big-time philosophical issues and all of them dealt with in one of the most sucessful TV shows of the last decade: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This week, The Philosopher's Zone heads off to Sunnydale to find out what the vampire slayer has to tell us about the most pressing philosophical questions....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-03-22 - Islam and philosophy - Tariq Ramadan

The holy Koran is held by Muslims to be the literal word of God, and if you've got that, who needs philosophy? This week we put that question to the distinguished and controversial Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan, who tells us that Islam not only needs philosophy but has already shared its insights with the West....

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[ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-03-15 - Philosophy and the Natural World - Val Plumwood

How do our ideas about the nature of thought and the nature of the human mind affect our view of the environment and of the other beings with whom we share it? This week we ponder on these issues in a programme about Val Plumwood, the feminist and environmentalist philosopher who died suddenly a couple of weeks ago....

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-03-08 - Gavagai!

This week, we continue our look at translation by examining the extreme case of radical translation. How do you translate from a language which has no connection with yours and of which you do not speak a single word, and what does all this have to do with the mysterious word 'gavagai'? We also continue our look at the challenges of translating philosophy this week focusing on translating French, German and English....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-03-01 - Philosophy in another tongue

Philosophy aspires to universal truths but it has to do so in a particular language. How does the language in which philosophy is expressed affect what can and cannot be said, and how does translation affect our understanding of it? This week, we ask a Chinese philosopher how different Confucius is in English and we consider attempts to make Plato sound as though he came from Oxford....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-02-23 - Why there's no getting away from beauty...

This week The Philosopher's Zone turns its attention to aesthetics, the study of art (and entertainment) and why it affects us in the way it does. What is it that captures our attention in art, and why is there no getting away from beauty? We also hear more from Philip Pettit about philosophers as government advisers....

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[ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-02-16 - Philosophers advising government

This week two examples of philosophers providing ideas and advice to governments. One has been successful, the other less so. The Australian philosopher Philip Pettit has the ear of the current Spanish president, but what has he achieved? We also look at the role Machiavelli tried to play advising rulers in fifteenth century Florence....

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[ Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-02-09 - The Emergence of Science, Part 2

Why did the great scientific revolution occur in the West and not in China or the Arab-Islamic world? This week, in the second part of an interview with Stephen Gaukroger from the University of Sydney, we find out why it happened, where it happened and how science became the bearer of general standards of rationality....

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[ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-02-02 - The emergence of science

In the twenty-first century, science doesn't just explain the world: it dominates the world. Religion, art, human relationships, history - we expect them all to be explained in scientific terms. How did science acquire this dominance over our way of thinking? Today, in the first episode of a two-part special, we examine the rise of science in the western mind....

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[ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-01-26 - Philosophical love stories

This week, Friedrich Nietzsche meets the Frankenstein monster and Simon de Beauvoir hangs out with the Desperate Housewives, in a philosophical look at some stories of attraction and love....

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[ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]

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