How do you solve the question of collective self-government by citizens? Josiah Ober discusses a fundamental problem of democratic societies: how we come to agree on courses of action when we commit to living within a democracy. His argument is that we need to become civic friends, a concept he explains in the conversation.
Noel Malcolm on Hobbes' Leviathan in Context
Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running
John Gardner on Constitutions
Fiona Macpherson on Hallucination
Jeff McMahan on Gun Control
Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
Tom Sorell on Surveillance
John Campbell on Schizophrenia
Kendall Walton on Photography
Alan Ryan on Freedom and Its History
Who's Your Favourite Philosopher?
Peter Adamson on Avicenna's Flying Man
Tim Bayne on the Unity of Consicousness
Liane Young on Mind and Morality
Gary Francione on Animal Abolitionism
Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher
Tim Crane on Non-Existence
Michael Tye on Pain
Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (originally on Bioethics Bites)
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