Philosophy Gets Schooled

Part 1: Introduction to metaphysics of mind, dualism and property dualism.  Chalmers's zombies!  Part 2 (starts 31min 05 sec): Jackson's Mary argument.  Epiphenomenalism, introspection, natural selection.  Evaluation.  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, physicalism, mind-brain type identity theory - explanation, arguments for and against.  Part 2 (starts 35 min 15 sec): eliminative materialism - explanation, arguments for and against.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.) 

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, dualism and substance dualism.  Descartes' Indivisibility Argument.  Part 2 (starts: 21min40sec): Descartes' Conceivability Argument, criticisms (possibility of other minds, interaction, and category errors).  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  [AND APOLOGIES - SK's mic goes funny right at the end.  Hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment!]  

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind and physicalism, 'hard' & 'soft' behaviourism.  Part 2 (starts 29min50sec): dualism against behaviourism, Putnam's super-Spartans, circularity and multiple realisability, asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others, and evaluations.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel talk with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind, functionalism, advantages. Part 2 (starts: 24min55sec): inverted qualia, no qualia, Mary argument, zombies, Turing/Chinese room/AI and evaluation of functionalism.  Sally Latham, Mabel Rowe and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent/Leeds).  (Music by Alex Grohl.) 

Part 1: Types of knowledge, definitions. Part 2 (18min15sec): Innate knowledge: Plato's Meno, Leibniz, Locke and Hume.  Part 3 (41min15sec): 'Intuition and Deduction' - Hume's Fork, Descartes' Cogito, clear and distinct ideas, Trademark Argument, etc. Sally Latham and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Part 1: Intro, Kalam and Aquinas (first 2 ways).  Part 2 (23min25sec): Descartes and criticisms. Part 3 (41min45sec) Aquinas (3rd way), Leibniz and evaluation.  Matt Harris and Michael Lacewing chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]

Part 1: Scepticism: definition and purpose, brains in vats, scepticism vs. normal disbelief.  Part 2 (25min25sec): Descartes: waves of doubt and his responses.  Part 3 (45min45sec): empiricist responses (Locke, Berkeley and Russell), and reliabilism.  Beth Mackintosh and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Part 1: Introduction (the 'Omni-God'), eternal and everlasting.  Part 2 (16min50sec): Foreknowledge and time.  Part 3 (33min35sec): Stone Paradox and Euthyphro dilemma.  Sally Latham and Michael Platt chat with Simon Kirchin (Univ of Kent). 

Part 1: introduction, Aquinas, Paley and Hume.  Part 2 (starts 25min05sec): Swinburne, evolution, fine-tuning and evaluation.  Michael Platt and Matt Harris chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl.]

Key Terms!  Part 1: assertion/claim, proposition, true/false, justification, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori.  / Part 2 (starts: 22min05sec): argument, deductive/inductive/abductive, consistent/inconsistent/contradiction, proof, antecedent/consequent, tautology, dilemma (and Catch 22), paradox, fallacy, slippery slope. / Part 3 (starts 59min35sec): necessary/contingent, objective/subjective, agape, telos, via negativa and via positiva.  DaN McKee and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Part 1 - intro, theory of knowledge, tripartite definition.  Part 2 (starts 22min15sec) - Gettier, infallibilism.  Part 3 (starts 45min47sec) - no false lemmas, reliabilism, virtue epistemology, and final reflections.  Sally Latham and Paul Moore-Bridger chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent).  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) summarizes some of the main points and questions about the problem of evil.  Check out the in-depth discussion for more details.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

1st part - intro and Augustine.  2nd part (starts: 32min25sec) - Plantinga and more on free will.  3rd part (starts: 58min50sec) - Hick and concluding reflections.  Matt Harris, Mabel Rowe and Sophie Williams chat with Simon Kirchin (University of Kent).  [Music by Alex Grohl]   

Especially good for AQA and EDexcel.  Part 1 - intro, cognitivism and noncognitivism, Ayer and logical positivism.  Part 2 (starts at 29min50sec) - Hick, Flew/Mitchell/Hare and Wittgenstein.  Sally Latham, Sophie Williams, Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) introduces natural law ethics and situation ethics.  Check our our in-depth discussion too.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

1st part - Natural Law intro.  2nd part (starts at 19min30sec) - Natural Law Discussion.  3rd part (starts at 37min20sec)- Situation Ethics.  Michael Platt and Toby Bownass chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (Kent) chats and introduces the ontological arg.  Check out our in-depth discussion as well.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

1st Part - Anselm and Gaunilo. 2nd Part (starts at 21min) - Descartes, Kant and Malcolm.  Michael Platt, Paul Moore-Bridger and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

A short episode where Simon Kirchin (University of Kent) introduces the topic of perceptual knowledge.  Check out the in-depth episode for more discussion and analysis.  [Music by Alex Grohl.] 

1st part - Direct realism.  2nd part (starts at 39mins) - Indirect realism.  3rd part (starts at 1hr07m20sec) - Idealism.  Michael Lacewing, DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (Kent) introduces three topics - abortion, euthanasia, and simulated killing.  Also, check out the in-depth PGS episode on these three topics.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (Kent) introduces some of the main issues in business ethics, for both the OCR religious studies specification and in general.  Also check out the PGS in-depth episode on business ethics.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Three topics.  Part 1 (personhood and abortion).  Part 2 (43min00sec - killing and letting die, and euthanasia).  Part 3 (1hr11min05sec - simulated killing in video games, films, etc.)  DaN McKee, Beth Mackintosh, Michael Platt and Simon Kirchin.  {Music by Alex Grohl]

In depth discussion about Business Ethics.  Part 1 (introduction, stockholders vs. stakeholders, corporate agency, CSR).  Part 2 (28min20sec - whistleblowing, globalisation).  Part 3 (56min07sec - capitalism and human flourishing, normative ethics). Michael Platt, Toby Bownass and Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (Kent) introduces some of the main ideas in Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and summarizes some of the conversation in the in-depth episode on Aristotle and VE. 

Aristotelian Virtue Ethics.  Part 1 (Normative Ethics, virtue and eudaimonia). Part 2 (23min05sec - function arg., virtues - courage and wit - doctrine of the mean, habits and skills).  Part 3 (56min23sec - voluntary, invol. and nonvol. action, phronesis, problems for virtue ethics).  Michael Lacewing, Beth Mackintosh, DaN McKee and Simon Kirchin (Kent).  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Simon Kirchin (Kent) summarizes some of the main issues regarding sexual ethics and introduces some of the main discussions of the in-depth PGS episode on Sexual Ethics.

Sexual and relationship ethics.  Part 1 (Intro and intervention/rules by state and others into relationships and activity).  Part 2 (26min40sec - Natural Law tradition, reproduction, do we have a function?)  Part 3 (57min55sec - the value of sex to groups and individuals.  Asexuality.)  Fiona Wollard, Beth Mackintosh and Matt Harris chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent). [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon Kirchin (Kent) summarizes the area of metaethics talking through moral realism and anti-realism.  Also - check out the two in-depth episodes on metaethics.  Part ONE is on realism, part TWO is on anti-realism.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

Metaethics and Moral Anti-realism.   Part 1 (Intro to metaethics.  Intro to anti-realism, key terms such as cognitivism and noncognitivism).  Part 2 (23min53sec - error theory and John Mackie).  Part 3 (1hr03min15sec - noncognitivism - Ayer, Hare - evaluation of anti-realism).  Paul Moore-Bridger, and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent).  Also - check out Part ONE on moral realism and our metaethics short summary episode.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Metaethics and Moral Realism.  Part 1 (Intro to metaethics and moral realism)  Part 2 (25min30sec- moral naturalism, Moore's Open Question Argument).  Part 3 (54mins25sec - moral nonnaturalism, and problems with the OQA, summary).  Paul Moore-Bridger and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent).  Also - check out our other two episodes: Part TWO on moral anti-realism, and the metaethics short summary. [Music by Alex Grohl]

Part 1 (introduction to animal ethics - pets, zoos, traffic, entertainment, experiments etc.). Part 2 (28min07sec - eating animals - production and consumption, vegetarianism vs. veganism, and lions eating antelopes!). Part 3 (1hr12min17sec - normative ethical theories and animals).  Lauren Traczykowski, Fiona Woollard and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent).  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

Simon Kirchin (Kent) highlights some of the main moral questions surrounding animals and humans eating animals and animal products.  Also - check out the in-depth discussion. [Music by Alex Grohl.]  

Simon's short intro to some of the main philosophical issues about just war, peace and pacifism.  Check out the in-depth episode for more.  [Music by Alex Grohl.]

Part 1 (Just War Theory - before war/jus ad bellum).  Part 2 (45min33sec - JWT - during war/jus in bello).  Part 3 (1hr00min36sec - JWT - after war/jus post bellum).  Part 4 (1hr23min02sec - peace and pacifism).  Lauren Traczykowski and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent). [Music by Alex Grohl.]

Simon talks through some of the main features of deontology and Kant's moral philosophy. [Music by Alex Grohl]

Part 1 (normative ethics and a general intro to deontology, plus the good will, maxims, duties, categorical and hypothetical imperatives).  Part 2 (33min00sec - The Categorical Imperative - first two formulations).  Part 3 (1hr07min50sec - problems for Kant and deontology, plus Philippa Foot on imperatives).  Michael Lacewing and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent).  [Music by Alex Grohl.] 

Simon gives a short summary about utilitarianism.Check out the in-depth discussion with teachers for more.

Part 1 (Normative Ethics, Bentham and Mill, pleasure and pain).  Part 2 (37min55sec - Mill's proof,  act-util vs. rule-util.)  Part 3 (55min15sec - problems: demandingness, pleasure, integrity.)  Paul Moore-Bridger, DaN McKee and Michael Platt chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent). [Music by Alex Grohl]

Simon gives an overview of moral philosophy / ethics to introduce you to the various PGS episodes. (Music - Alex Grohl)

PGS - brief description.  Get involved! https://stkirchin.wixsite.com/mysite/schools-podcast  (Music - Alex Grohl)