A History of Ideas
By BBC Radio 4
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Jul 6, 2019
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Sep 11, 2018
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.
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Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Wittgenstein
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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Philosopher Clare Carlisle on Reality and Perception
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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Physicist Tara Shears on Falsification
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Aug 05, 2015 |
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Lawyer Harry Potter on Eyewitness Testimony
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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How Can I Know Anything at All?
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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Writer Lisa Appignanesi on the Love of Children
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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Psychotherapist Mark Vernon on Freud
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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Theologian Giles Fraser on Altruism
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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Classicist Edith Hall on Aristophanes in Plato
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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What Is Love?
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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Philosopher Timothy Secret on Ancestor Worship
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Plato's Philosopher Kings
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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Economist Kate Barker on the Free Market
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Jul 22, 2015 |
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Historian Justin Champion on Toleration
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Jul 21, 2015 |
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How Should We Live Together?
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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Philosopher Barry Smith on Descartes and Consciousness
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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Philosopher Jules Evans on Jung and the Mind
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the Individual
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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Paul Broks on John Locke and Personal Identity
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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What Does It Mean to Be Me?
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Historian Alice Taylor on Habeas Corpus
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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Thomas Hobbes and Civil Disobedience
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the Veil of Ignorance
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Apr 08, 2015 |
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Barrister Harry Potter on Deterrence
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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What Is Justice?
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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Ayn Rand and Selfishness
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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Naomi Appleton on the Buddha's Four Noble Truths
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Apr 02, 2015 |
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Justin Champion on Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
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Apr 01, 2015 |
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Philosopher Jules Evans on Aristotle and Flourishing
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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How Do I Live a Good Life?
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Mar 30, 2015 |
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Archaeologist Matt Pope on tools and human evolution
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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Surgeon Gabriel Weston on medical technology
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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Historian Justin Champion on Francis Bacon
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Jan 28, 2015 |
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Writer Tom Chatfield: Has technology rewired our brains?
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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How Has Technology Changed Us?
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Jan 26, 2015 |
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Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein and Blade Runner
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and Human Language
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Jan 22, 2015 |
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Catharine Edwards on Seneca and facing death.
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Jan 21, 2015 |
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Simon Schaffer on humans, apes and Carl Linnaeus
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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What Makes Us Human?
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Jan 19, 2015 |
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Historian Justin Champion on William Whiston's Comet Theory
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Jan 16, 2015 |
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Theologian Giles Fraser on Thomas Aquinas
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Jan 15, 2015 |
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Astronomer Carole Mundell on the Big Bang
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Jan 14, 2015 |
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Jessica Frazier on Creation Myths
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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How Did Everything Begin?
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the Value of Conscience
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Nov 28, 2014 |
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Lawyer Harry Potter on Morality and the Law
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Nov 27, 2014 |
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Neuro-psychologist Paul Broks on Morality and the Brain
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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Theologian Giles Fraser on Moral character
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Nov 25, 2014 |
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How Can I Tell Right From Wrong?
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Nov 24, 2014 |
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Beauty and Morality
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Nov 21, 2014 |
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Historian Simon Schaffer on Beauty and Evolution
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Nov 20, 2014 |
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Vicky Neale on the Mathematics of Beauty
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Nov 19, 2014 |
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Barry Smith on the Philosophy of Good Taste
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Nov 18, 2014 |
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Why Are Things Beautiful?
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Nov 17, 2014 |
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Neuroscientist Paul Broks on Free Will and the Brain
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Nov 14, 2014 |
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Theologian Giles Fraser on Religious Freedom
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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Lawyer Harry Potter on Individual Freedom and the State
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Nov 12, 2014 |
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Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Positive and Negative Freedom
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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What Does It Mean to Be Free?
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Nov 10, 2014 |