The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders
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The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders launched on 26 January 2005 and explored major philosophical questions and debates. This archive commemorates Alan Saunders’ work.
Episode 3 — The Relevance of Professor Quine
This week, we look at Quine's work in the light of Jenkins's complaints and ask whether this really is just a matter of word games or whether Jenkins has simply missed the point.
Tue 8 Feb 2005
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This week, we look at Quine's work in the light of Jenkins's complaints and ask whether this really is just a matter of word games or whether Jenkins has simply missed the point.
Tue 8 Feb 2005
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
The Relevance of Professor Quine - ABC listen
In 2000, when the distinguished American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine died at the age of 94, The Times of London published a respectful obituary. A few days later, one of the paper's own column...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Episode 3 — The Relevance of Professor Quine
This week, we look at Quine's work in the light of Jenkins's complaints and ask whether this really is just a matter of word games or whether Jenkins has simply missed the point.
Tue 8 Feb 2005
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
This week, we look at Quine's work in the light of Jenkins's complaints and ask whether this really is just a matter of word games or whether Jenkins has simply missed the point.
Tue 8 Feb 2005
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
Stories by Year — 2005
The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Past Programs
Aired on Saturday at 1.30pm, and were repeated Wednesday at 9.35pm
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The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Past Programs
Aired on Saturday at 1.30pm, and were repeated Wednesday at 9.35pm
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
web.archive.org/web/20060526...
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Stories by Year — 2005
The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Past Programs
Aired on Saturday at 1.30pm, and were repeated Wednesday at 9.35pm
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
web.archive.org/web/20060526...
The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Past Programs
Aired on Saturday at 1.30pm, and were repeated Wednesday at 9.35pm
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
web.archive.org/web/20060526...
Episode 2 — Philosophy 101
This week, The Philosopher’s Zone goes back to fundamentals, asking what sort of thing philosophy really is.
Alan Saunders is joined by David Braddon-Mitchell.
Tue, 1 February 2005
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This week, The Philosopher’s Zone goes back to fundamentals, asking what sort of thing philosophy really is.
Alan Saunders is joined by David Braddon-Mitchell.
Tue, 1 February 2005
#ThePhilosophersZone #AlanSaunders #DavidBraddonMitchell
Philosophy 101 - ABC listen
This week, The Philosopher's Zone goes back to basics and asks what sort of thing philosophy really is. If you were going to produce a caricature of a philosopher, you might have somebody saying somet...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Episode 2 — Philosophy 101
This week, The Philosopher’s Zone goes back to fundamentals, asking what sort of thing philosophy really is.
Alan Saunders is joined by David Braddon-Mitchell.
Tue, 1 February 2005
#ThePhilosophersZone #AlanSaunders #DavidBraddonMitchell
This week, The Philosopher’s Zone goes back to fundamentals, asking what sort of thing philosophy really is.
Alan Saunders is joined by David Braddon-Mitchell.
Tue, 1 February 2005
#ThePhilosophersZone #AlanSaunders #DavidBraddonMitchell
Episode 1
Launched on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders explored major philosophical questions and debates.
In the inaugural episode, Alan Saunders discusses the philosophy of compassion with Paul Comrie-Thompson.
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Launched on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders explored major philosophical questions and debates.
In the inaugural episode, Alan Saunders discusses the philosophy of compassion with Paul Comrie-Thompson.
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
The Philosophy Of Compassion - ABC listen
We have seen a huge public humanitarian response after the Asian tsunami, but was it too much? Should we be less emotional and more calculating in our compassion, carefully apportioning aid according ...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Episode 1
Launched on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders explored major philosophical questions and debates.
In the inaugural episode, Alan Saunders discusses the philosophy of compassion with Paul Comrie-Thompson.
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
Launched on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, The Philosopher’s Zone with Alan Saunders explored major philosophical questions and debates.
In the inaugural episode, Alan Saunders discusses the philosophy of compassion with Paul Comrie-Thompson.
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosophersZone
At its heart, philosophy is about asking simple, even silly, questions: the sort of questions you probably asked when you were a kid. The Philosopher’s Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics. web.archive.org/web/20050411...
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At its heart, philosophy is about asking simple, even silly, questions: the sort of questions you probably asked when you were a kid. The Philosopher’s Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics. web.archive.org/web/20050411...
Tue 17 May 2005
Philosophy and the Real World
How different does economics look, how different does any subject look, if the person pursuing it is a philosopher?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#AdamSmith
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Philosophy and the Real World
How different does economics look, how different does any subject look, if the person pursuing it is a philosopher?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#AdamSmith
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Philosophy and the Real World - ABC listen
Adam Smith, author of 'The Wealth of Nations', is renowned as the father of modern economics, but he also wrote this:
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November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tue 17 May 2005
Philosophy and the Real World
How different does economics look, how different does any subject look, if the person pursuing it is a philosopher?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#AdamSmith
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Philosophy and the Real World
How different does economics look, how different does any subject look, if the person pursuing it is a philosopher?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#AdamSmith
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Sun 26 Feb 2012
Group agents
An agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose, but do we have to be talking about individual persons here, or can groups of people be agents in just the way that individuals can?
- with #PhilipPettit
#Feb2012
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosopher'sZone
Group agents
An agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose, but do we have to be talking about individual persons here, or can groups of people be agents in just the way that individuals can?
- with #PhilipPettit
#Feb2012
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosopher'sZone
Group agents - ABC listen
On this Philosopher’s Zone we’re looking at agents. Not secret agents but rather public agents: an agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose and an agent is distinguished from a patient....
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November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sun 26 Feb 2012
Group agents
An agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose, but do we have to be talking about individual persons here, or can groups of people be agents in just the way that individuals can?
- with #PhilipPettit
#Feb2012
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosopher'sZone
Group agents
An agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose, but do we have to be talking about individual persons here, or can groups of people be agents in just the way that individuals can?
- with #PhilipPettit
#Feb2012
#AlanSaunders
#ThePhilosopher'sZone
Tue 10 May 2005
What is an #Ethicist?
You can be a biologist without reading Darwin or a physicist without reading Newton, but philosophers still read Plato, Descartes and Kant. So does this mean that philosophy, unlike science, does not progress?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
What is an #Ethicist?
You can be a biologist without reading Darwin or a physicist without reading Newton, but philosophers still read Plato, Descartes and Kant. So does this mean that philosophy, unlike science, does not progress?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
What is an Ethicist? - ABC listen
You can be a biologist without reading Darwin and you can be a physicist without knowing anything about the works of Newton, but philosophers are still reading Plato, Descartes and Kant: people who di...
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Tue 10 May 2005
What is an #Ethicist?
You can be a biologist without reading Darwin or a physicist without reading Newton, but philosophers still read Plato, Descartes and Kant. So does this mean that philosophy, unlike science, does not progress?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
What is an #Ethicist?
You can be a biologist without reading Darwin or a physicist without reading Newton, but philosophers still read Plato, Descartes and Kant. So does this mean that philosophy, unlike science, does not progress?
- with #SimonLongstaff
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
Sun 4 Mar 2012
Kafka and Philosophy
What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?
- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#Mar2012
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Kafka and Philosophy
What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?
- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#Mar2012
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Kafka and Philosophy - ABC listen
Franz Kafka—author of The Trial, in which a man is unjustly accused and tried, and Metamorphosis, in which a man becomes a giant insect—is perhaps the modernist author most often discussed by philosop...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sun 4 Mar 2012
Kafka and Philosophy
What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?
- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#Mar2012
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Kafka and Philosophy
What has been so alluring about #Kafka that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings?
- with #HenrySussman, #YaleUniversity
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#Mar2012
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Tue 3 May 2005
Volcanoes, Sea Battles and #Aristotle
Logicians and philosophers are always concerned about the status of our statements. How, for example, can we make meaningful statements about things that don't exist?
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Volcanoes, Sea Battles and #Aristotle
Logicians and philosophers are always concerned about the status of our statements. How, for example, can we make meaningful statements about things that don't exist?
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Volcanoes, Sea Battles and Aristotle - ABC listen
A few weeks ago, ABC TV ran a series - part documentary, part drama - about what volcanoes (and in particular the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park in the US) might do to us at some point in the fut...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tue 3 May 2005
Volcanoes, Sea Battles and #Aristotle
Logicians and philosophers are always concerned about the status of our statements. How, for example, can we make meaningful statements about things that don't exist?
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Volcanoes, Sea Battles and #Aristotle
Logicians and philosophers are always concerned about the status of our statements. How, for example, can we make meaningful statements about things that don't exist?
#May2005
#AlanSaunders
#Philosopher'sZone
Sun 11 Mar 2012
The Myth of #Plato and Plato the Myth-maker
For centuries, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the other direction.
- with #RickBenitez, #TheUniversityOfSydney
#myth
#Mar2012
The Myth of #Plato and Plato the Myth-maker
For centuries, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the other direction.
- with #RickBenitez, #TheUniversityOfSydney
#myth
#Mar2012
The Myth of Plato and Plato the Myth-maker - ABC listen
There’s been a change in the interpretation of Plato. For centuries, he was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sun 11 Mar 2012
The Myth of #Plato and Plato the Myth-maker
For centuries, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the other direction.
- with #RickBenitez, #TheUniversityOfSydney
#myth
#Mar2012
The Myth of #Plato and Plato the Myth-maker
For centuries, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then the pendulum swung hard in the other direction.
- with #RickBenitez, #TheUniversityOfSydney
#myth
#Mar2012
Tue 26 Apr 2005
Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger
This week, we examine the allure of #relativism and discuss how (or whether) it should be resisted.
- with #JamesFranklin, the University of New South Wales.
#Apr2005
Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger
This week, we examine the allure of #relativism and discuss how (or whether) it should be resisted.
- with #JamesFranklin, the University of New South Wales.
#Apr2005
Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger - ABC listen
In the homily that he delivered at the mass held before the conclave that was to elect him Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratizinger, inveighed against what he called relativism. "Today," he said, "having a cl...
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July 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Tue 26 Apr 2005
Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger
This week, we examine the allure of #relativism and discuss how (or whether) it should be resisted.
- with #JamesFranklin, the University of New South Wales.
#Apr2005
Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger
This week, we examine the allure of #relativism and discuss how (or whether) it should be resisted.
- with #JamesFranklin, the University of New South Wales.
#Apr2005
Sun 18 Mar 2012
Thomas Pogge and global #fairness
In a world in which many humans do not have all their #humanRights fulfilled, how to bring a better world about?
- with #ThomasPogge, Yale University and the Australian National University.
#Kant #JohnRawls #moralPhilosophy
#Mar2012
Thomas Pogge and global #fairness
In a world in which many humans do not have all their #humanRights fulfilled, how to bring a better world about?
- with #ThomasPogge, Yale University and the Australian National University.
#Kant #JohnRawls #moralPhilosophy
#Mar2012
Thomas Pogge and global fairness - ABC listen
In a world in which many humans do not have all their human rights fulfilled, who has what obligations to help bring a better world about? This is a question that, for many years, has exercised the mi...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sun 18 Mar 2012
Thomas Pogge and global #fairness
In a world in which many humans do not have all their #humanRights fulfilled, how to bring a better world about?
- with #ThomasPogge, Yale University and the Australian National University.
#Kant #JohnRawls #moralPhilosophy
#Mar2012
Thomas Pogge and global #fairness
In a world in which many humans do not have all their #humanRights fulfilled, how to bring a better world about?
- with #ThomasPogge, Yale University and the Australian National University.
#Kant #JohnRawls #moralPhilosophy
#Mar2012
Tue 19 Apr 2005
What Are #Qualia?
Recently, many philosophers puzzled on what goes on in the head. A mental state will have certain properties that determine what it is like to be in that mental state. These properties are #qualia.
- with #GeraldGleeson, the Catholic Institute of Sydney
#Apr2005
What Are #Qualia?
Recently, many philosophers puzzled on what goes on in the head. A mental state will have certain properties that determine what it is like to be in that mental state. These properties are #qualia.
- with #GeraldGleeson, the Catholic Institute of Sydney
#Apr2005
What Are Qualia? - ABC listen
In the seventeenth century, the French philosopher, René Descartes started looking for a body of knowledge that was truly certain, and his way of looking was the way of doubt. If you doubted everythin...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Tue 19 Apr 2005
What Are #Qualia?
Recently, many philosophers puzzled on what goes on in the head. A mental state will have certain properties that determine what it is like to be in that mental state. These properties are #qualia.
- with #GeraldGleeson, the Catholic Institute of Sydney
#Apr2005
What Are #Qualia?
Recently, many philosophers puzzled on what goes on in the head. A mental state will have certain properties that determine what it is like to be in that mental state. These properties are #qualia.
- with #GeraldGleeson, the Catholic Institute of Sydney
#Apr2005
Sun 25 Mar 2012
Extending the mind
Where does the #mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that #thoughts are not all in the head.
- with #RobertRupert, the University of Colorado
#extendedMind #naturalisticTheory #mentalContent
#Mar2012
Extending the mind
Where does the #mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that #thoughts are not all in the head.
- with #RobertRupert, the University of Colorado
#extendedMind #naturalisticTheory #mentalContent
#Mar2012
Extending the mind - ABC listen
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that thoughts are not all in the head. The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is...
www.abc.net.au
May 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sun 25 Mar 2012
Extending the mind
Where does the #mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that #thoughts are not all in the head.
- with #RobertRupert, the University of Colorado
#extendedMind #naturalisticTheory #mentalContent
#Mar2012
Extending the mind
Where does the #mind stop and the rest of the world begin? Some philosophers are now arguing that #thoughts are not all in the head.
- with #RobertRupert, the University of Colorado
#extendedMind #naturalisticTheory #mentalContent
#Mar2012
Tue 12 Apr 2005
The Pope and Philosophy
#KarolWojtyla, the man who became #PopeJohnPaulII had a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cracow. So how did #theology and philosophy operate together in his mind and what role did philosophy have in his #papacy?
- with Gerald Gleason
#Apr2005
The Pope and Philosophy
#KarolWojtyla, the man who became #PopeJohnPaulII had a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cracow. So how did #theology and philosophy operate together in his mind and what role did philosophy have in his #papacy?
- with Gerald Gleason
#Apr2005
The Pope and Philosophy - ABC listen
Karol Wojtyla, the man who became Pope John Paul II had a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cracow and published a number of books on the subject. So how did theology and philosophy opera...
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April 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tue 12 Apr 2005
The Pope and Philosophy
#KarolWojtyla, the man who became #PopeJohnPaulII had a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cracow. So how did #theology and philosophy operate together in his mind and what role did philosophy have in his #papacy?
- with Gerald Gleason
#Apr2005
The Pope and Philosophy
#KarolWojtyla, the man who became #PopeJohnPaulII had a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cracow. So how did #theology and philosophy operate together in his mind and what role did philosophy have in his #papacy?
- with Gerald Gleason
#Apr2005
June 2012 PZE Episodes:
Sun 24 Jun 2012 - Tribute to the philosophical Alan Saunders
Sun 17 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture Three
Sun 10 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture One
Sun 3 Jun 2012 - The Philosophy of Astronomy
#ASPZE_June2012
#ASPZE_Jun2012
Sun 24 Jun 2012 - Tribute to the philosophical Alan Saunders
Sun 17 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture Three
Sun 10 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture One
Sun 3 Jun 2012 - The Philosophy of Astronomy
#ASPZE_June2012
#ASPZE_Jun2012
March 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
June 2012 PZE Episodes:
Sun 24 Jun 2012 - Tribute to the philosophical Alan Saunders
Sun 17 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture Three
Sun 10 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture One
Sun 3 Jun 2012 - The Philosophy of Astronomy
#ASPZE_June2012
#ASPZE_Jun2012
Sun 24 Jun 2012 - Tribute to the philosophical Alan Saunders
Sun 17 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture Three
Sun 10 Jun 2012 - Thinking Out Loud - Lecture One
Sun 3 Jun 2012 - The Philosophy of Astronomy
#ASPZE_June2012
#ASPZE_Jun2012
Sun 1 Apr 2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Philosophy for Representationalists - ABC listen
Over four decades, the Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide have become a very significant series with many distinguished contributors from across the globe.. This y...
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March 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sun 1 Apr 2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Philosophy for #Representationalists
#PerceptualExperiences represent the way things are. We can pass this information on in many ways, but most often pass it on using #words and #sentences.
- with #FrankJackson from #ANU
#Language #Representationalism
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Tue 5 Apr 2005
What is death?
Is #death the ultimate disaster, to be avoided at all costs? Should we not fear being dead because we will not experience it? Is a constant awareness of death necessary?
- with #StanVanHooft ( #DeakinUniversity )
#Life #Death #Subjectivity
#Bioethics
#Apr2005
What is death?
Is #death the ultimate disaster, to be avoided at all costs? Should we not fear being dead because we will not experience it? Is a constant awareness of death necessary?
- with #StanVanHooft ( #DeakinUniversity )
#Life #Death #Subjectivity
#Bioethics
#Apr2005
What is death? - ABC listen
Stan van Hooft, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, devotes a chapter of his recent book on bioethics to the question of what death is. But why do we need to ask? Isn't it enough t...
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March 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Tue 5 Apr 2005
What is death?
Is #death the ultimate disaster, to be avoided at all costs? Should we not fear being dead because we will not experience it? Is a constant awareness of death necessary?
- with #StanVanHooft ( #DeakinUniversity )
#Life #Death #Subjectivity
#Bioethics
#Apr2005
What is death?
Is #death the ultimate disaster, to be avoided at all costs? Should we not fear being dead because we will not experience it? Is a constant awareness of death necessary?
- with #StanVanHooft ( #DeakinUniversity )
#Life #Death #Subjectivity
#Bioethics
#Apr2005
Sun 8 Apr 2012
Honourable intentions
Human #consciousness is intentional – it’s about something – but what is the relationship between my consciousness and the objects of which I’m conscious?
- with #FrankJackson ( #ANU )
#Physicalism #Representationalism
#KnowledgeArgument
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Honourable intentions
Human #consciousness is intentional – it’s about something – but what is the relationship between my consciousness and the objects of which I’m conscious?
- with #FrankJackson ( #ANU )
#Physicalism #Representationalism
#KnowledgeArgument
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Honourable intentions - ABC listen
Human consciousness is intentional – it’s about something – but what is the relationship between my consciousness and the objects of which I’m conscious? And, in particular, how does this work when t...
www.abc.net.au
February 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sun 8 Apr 2012
Honourable intentions
Human #consciousness is intentional – it’s about something – but what is the relationship between my consciousness and the objects of which I’m conscious?
- with #FrankJackson ( #ANU )
#Physicalism #Representationalism
#KnowledgeArgument
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Honourable intentions
Human #consciousness is intentional – it’s about something – but what is the relationship between my consciousness and the objects of which I’m conscious?
- with #FrankJackson ( #ANU )
#Physicalism #Representationalism
#KnowledgeArgument
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Tue 29 Mar 2005
The Moral Significance of Persons
Ethical matters with the concept of a #person and with #death, the end of a person if that's what death is.
with #StanVanHooft
#TerriSchiavo
#HumanLife
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Moral Significance of Persons
Ethical matters with the concept of a #person and with #death, the end of a person if that's what death is.
with #StanVanHooft
#TerriSchiavo
#HumanLife
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Moral Significance of Persons - ABC listen
Terri Schiavo, kept alive in a hospital in Florida, while her family and her former husband fight over whether her life support should be withdrawn, is a striking example of the agonizing pass to whic...
www.abc.net.au
February 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tue 29 Mar 2005
The Moral Significance of Persons
Ethical matters with the concept of a #person and with #death, the end of a person if that's what death is.
with #StanVanHooft
#TerriSchiavo
#HumanLife
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Moral Significance of Persons
Ethical matters with the concept of a #person and with #death, the end of a person if that's what death is.
with #StanVanHooft
#TerriSchiavo
#HumanLife
#ASPZE_Mar2005
Sun 15 Apr 2012
A Dangerous Method
The film depicts #Jung and #Freud as they seek a common ground with the new method of #psychoanalysis.
- with clinical professor in psychiatric ethics #MichaelRobertson
#ADangerousMethod
#CarlGustavJung #SigmundFreud
#Akhenaten #TheSecondComing
#ASPZE_Apr2012
A Dangerous Method
The film depicts #Jung and #Freud as they seek a common ground with the new method of #psychoanalysis.
- with clinical professor in psychiatric ethics #MichaelRobertson
#ADangerousMethod
#CarlGustavJung #SigmundFreud
#Akhenaten #TheSecondComing
#ASPZE_Apr2012
A Dangerous Method - ABC listen
This week on the Philosopher’s Zone, we’re looking at a couple of people you might not think of as philosophers at all. One of them aspired to be a scientist of the mind. The other, though, was some...
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sun 15 Apr 2012
A Dangerous Method
The film depicts #Jung and #Freud as they seek a common ground with the new method of #psychoanalysis.
- with clinical professor in psychiatric ethics #MichaelRobertson
#ADangerousMethod
#CarlGustavJung #SigmundFreud
#Akhenaten #TheSecondComing
#ASPZE_Apr2012
A Dangerous Method
The film depicts #Jung and #Freud as they seek a common ground with the new method of #psychoanalysis.
- with clinical professor in psychiatric ethics #MichaelRobertson
#ADangerousMethod
#CarlGustavJung #SigmundFreud
#Akhenaten #TheSecondComing
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Tue 22 Mar 2005
Acts of Contrition
What about #contrition, does it matter that though #Judas might be #contrite he is, as it were, shallowly contrite?
- with #PaulComrie-Thomson
#FeelingAndAction
#apology #ConditionalApology #CulpableIgnorance
#ImpetuousActivity
#reconciliation
#ASPZE_Mar2005
Acts of Contrition
What about #contrition, does it matter that though #Judas might be #contrite he is, as it were, shallowly contrite?
- with #PaulComrie-Thomson
#FeelingAndAction
#apology #ConditionalApology #CulpableIgnorance
#ImpetuousActivity
#reconciliation
#ASPZE_Mar2005
Acts of Contrition - ABC listen
In Easter week we examine a seasonal topic: contrition and apology. After Judas had betrayed Jesus, could he have known enough about the extent of guilt to be capable of adequate contrition? Do you ne...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Tue 22 Mar 2005
Acts of Contrition
What about #contrition, does it matter that though #Judas might be #contrite he is, as it were, shallowly contrite?
- with #PaulComrie-Thomson
#FeelingAndAction
#apology #ConditionalApology #CulpableIgnorance
#ImpetuousActivity
#reconciliation
#ASPZE_Mar2005
Acts of Contrition
What about #contrition, does it matter that though #Judas might be #contrite he is, as it were, shallowly contrite?
- with #PaulComrie-Thomson
#FeelingAndAction
#apology #ConditionalApology #CulpableIgnorance
#ImpetuousActivity
#reconciliation
#ASPZE_Mar2005
Sun 22 Apr 2012
The worst #argument in the world
Presented by two philosophical connoisseurs of bad argument: #PeterSlezak and #JamesFranklin
#ChineseRoom #zombie #homunculusFallacy #consciousness #Pascal’sWager #MonteCarloFallacy #nonSequitur #StAnselm #DavidStove
#ASPZE_Apr2012
The worst #argument in the world
Presented by two philosophical connoisseurs of bad argument: #PeterSlezak and #JamesFranklin
#ChineseRoom #zombie #homunculusFallacy #consciousness #Pascal’sWager #MonteCarloFallacy #nonSequitur #StAnselm #DavidStove
#ASPZE_Apr2012
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February 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sun 22 Apr 2012
The worst #argument in the world
Presented by two philosophical connoisseurs of bad argument: #PeterSlezak and #JamesFranklin
#ChineseRoom #zombie #homunculusFallacy #consciousness #Pascal’sWager #MonteCarloFallacy #nonSequitur #StAnselm #DavidStove
#ASPZE_Apr2012
The worst #argument in the world
Presented by two philosophical connoisseurs of bad argument: #PeterSlezak and #JamesFranklin
#ChineseRoom #zombie #homunculusFallacy #consciousness #Pascal’sWager #MonteCarloFallacy #nonSequitur #StAnselm #DavidStove
#ASPZE_Apr2012
Tue 15 Mar 2005
The Ways of #Paradox
The reason that #paradoxes matter is that they tell us that there is something wrong with our way of #thinking.
#TheBarberParadox
#KurtGrelling #heterological
#BertrandRussell #TheClassOfAllClasses
#KurtGerdell
#IncompletenessTheorem #logic
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Ways of #Paradox
The reason that #paradoxes matter is that they tell us that there is something wrong with our way of #thinking.
#TheBarberParadox
#KurtGrelling #heterological
#BertrandRussell #TheClassOfAllClasses
#KurtGerdell
#IncompletenessTheorem #logic
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Ways of Paradox - ABC listen
A paradox is what you get when a logical way of thinking leads you, by inevitable steps, to conclusions that seem illogical or contradictory. A paradox is logic turning back on itself.
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February 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tue 15 Mar 2005
The Ways of #Paradox
The reason that #paradoxes matter is that they tell us that there is something wrong with our way of #thinking.
#TheBarberParadox
#KurtGrelling #heterological
#BertrandRussell #TheClassOfAllClasses
#KurtGerdell
#IncompletenessTheorem #logic
#ASPZE_Mar2005
The Ways of #Paradox
The reason that #paradoxes matter is that they tell us that there is something wrong with our way of #thinking.
#TheBarberParadox
#KurtGrelling #heterological
#BertrandRussell #TheClassOfAllClasses
#KurtGerdell
#IncompletenessTheorem #logic
#ASPZE_Mar2005