Philosophy Bites podcast - more than 5 million downloads so far!
on Oct 30, 2009Philosophy Bites, the podcast I make with David Edmonds, has broken the 5 million download barrier! We have 110 episodes so far and are releasing one a fortnight. These are all available free from www.philosophybites.com and you can download them...

Angie Hobbs given post to increase public understanding of philosophy
on Oct 15, 2009Angie Hobbs, whom I've interviewed a couple of times for the Philosophy Bites podcast (on Plato on Erotic Love, and Plato on War) has just been promoted to a new post at Warwick University with a brief to promote the...

Michael Sandel on Justice - Philosophy Gets Its Virtual Socrates
on Oct 3, 2009 in Ethics Internet Philosophy Philosophy Bites Political Philosophy Teaching Philosophy Michael Sandel's Justice website is a superb example of how academics can use the Internet to reach out to a world audience. Based on his renowned Harvard lecture course, it combines slick recordings of his 12 lectures (first 3 available...

Cheating in Sport
on Sep 21, 2009 in Ethics Sports Sports Ethics In the wake of the Renault deliberate crash, Bloodgate, and Eduardo's onfield acrobatics, Le Monde just ran an interview with me on cheating in sport: Pourquoi les sportifs trichent-ils? You can read an earlier piece I wrote on sports cheats...

Aesthetics at Tate Modern - booking open
on Aug 27, 2009 in Aesthetics Course Courses Seven Ways of Thinking About Art Tate Modern You can now book by telephone on 0207 887 8888 for my 7 Ways of Thinking About Art course on Monday evenings at Tate Modern 19th October to 30th November 2009 (7 sessions). If you need information about the sorts...

Ernö Goldfinger's House at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead - a video
on Aug 19, 2009 in Erno Goldfinger Watch this nice video about Ernö Goldfinger's own house, now owned by the National Trust, but take with a pinch of salt the Ian Fleming story about Goldfinger - the truth about how Fleming named his villian is here 'The...

Thinking from A to Z
on Aug 11, 2009 in Critical Thinking Thinking from A to Z Julian Baggini of the Philosophers Magazine interviewed me in 2001 about my book Thinking from A to Z . The video has just surfaced on You Tube:...

G.A. Cohen (1941 - 2009)
on Aug 5, 2009G.A. Cohen, the political philosopher sometimes known as Jerry Cohen, died in the early hours of this morning of a suspected stroke (see Normblog for some further details). I interviewed him for a Philosophy Bites podcast in his rooms at...

Tate Modern Course October 2009 - 7 Ways of Thinking About Art
on Jul 26, 2009 in Courses Seven Ways of Thinking About Art Tate Modern Tate Modern - I will be teaching the course 'Seven Ways of Thinking About Art' on 7 consecutive Monday evenings from 19th October until 30th November. Booking required. The course explores the philosophical basis of our attempts to understand works..

Twitter Updates Now in Right Hand Column
on Jul 26, 2009 in Twitter My Twitter updates from www.twitter.com/philosophybites now appear in the right hand column of this weblog. They include links to philosophy-related material on the Web. For the uninitiated, a 'Tweet' is simply an entry in Twitter (which is a kind of...