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View the full archive of Philosophy Bites Richard Bradley on Understanding Decisions What is involved in understanding a decision? Richard Bradley of the LSE addresses this question in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. As a decision theorist, he views decisions as gambles involving weightings of beliefs and desires. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tony Coady on Dirty Hands in Politics This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on the question of whether politicians need ever act immorally. Tony Coady (aka C.A.J. Coady), author of Messy Morality is in conversation with Nigel Warburton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle John Campbell explores Bishop Berkeley's puzzle about what our experience is of in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths Friedrich Nietzsche has been seen as the philosopher of the Overman, an anti-semite, and a precursor of postmodernist views about truth. But was he any of these? Brian Leiter explores these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Armstrong on What You Can Do With Philosophy What can you do with Philosophy? Not very much, according to some people. John Armstrong disagrees. Find out why in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God isn't necessary for morality in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sabine Doring on Emotion What is an emotion? How do emotions differ from moods? What part should the emotions play in our lives and in our understanding of what it is to be human? Sabine DÃring addresses these questions in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil The Problem of Evil is usually presented as a problem for believers. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Marilyn McCord Adams suggests that it is a problem for optimistic non-believers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal's PensÃes is the subject of this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Few philosophers know the PensÃes well,  apart from the passage in which Pascal set forth his famous 'wager' - the idea that agnostics should gamble on God existing. Here Ben Rogers explains who Pascal was, and why his book is worth reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution New technology is changing our relationship to reality and in the process what we are, argues Luciano Floridi, in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites. This is the fourth revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals What is a person and what makes me the same person over time despite change? John Locke emphasized that continuity of memory makes us the same person over time. In contrast Paul Snowdon argues that we should see persons as animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold  Michael Sandel. 2009 Reith Lecturer, discusses the moral limits of markets. You can follow Nigel Warburton discussing Sandel's first Reith lecture on Twitter on www.twitter.com/philosophybites from 10.15 p.m UK time on the 13th June as this lecture is broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Add '#goodradio' or '#Reith2009' to any comments you make on Twitter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Allen Buchanan on Enhancement Philosophy Bites looks at ethical questions raised by enhancement. Technological developments have opened up many new opportunities for intervening in biological processes to improve ourselves. Allen Buchanan of Duke University discusses some of these and their implications in conversation with Nigel Warburton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology Moral psychology is the empirical study of how people make moral judgements. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the relevance of psychological research to moral philosophy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thomas Hurka on Pleasure Pleasure is something we all want. But is it, and should it be the only thing that we want? Is pleasure all the same kind of thing? Philosopher Thomas Hurka explores the concept of pleasure in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the podcast Philosophy Bites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast focuses on Aristotle's Ethics. In conversation with Nigel Warburton, Terence Irwin of Oxford University explains the key features of this influential work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying Assisted dying, providing a patient with the means to kill themselves, is a highly controversial issue. For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Raymond Tallis, who is both an eminent gerontologist and philosopher, discusses this topic and some of the moral issues surrounding it with interviewer Nigel Warburton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor Should we base our morality on our emotional reactions of disgust? We all have a sense of 'yuk' at some activities or situations. Julian Savulescu of Oxford University discusses the relevance of revulsion to our moral judgements in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sebastian Gardner on Sartre on Bad Faith Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of Bad Faith lies at the core of his existentialist classic Being and Nothingness. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Sebastian Gardner explains what Sartre meant by Bad Faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy Questions about the nature of reality are at the heart of all philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions. Keith Ward gives an overview of the idealist tradition in some Indian philosophy and draws parallels between this tradition and some Western thinkers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |