Informal and animated discussions of major issues that affect us all
Can be enjoyed by readers with no previous experience of philosophy
Features leading thinkers from Britain, North America, and Australia

Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives. Their subjects include pleasure, pain, and humour; consciousness and the self; free will, responsibility, and punishment; the meaning of life and the afterlife. Everyone will find ideas in this book to fascinate, provoke, and inspire them.

Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. It has, to date, over 20 million downloads, and is listened to all over the world.

Table of Contents

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Joy and Pain
1: Thomas Hurka on Pleasure
2: Michael Tye on Pain
3: Noël Carroll on Humour
Morality
4: Jeff McMahan on Moral Status
5: John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
6: Raimond Gaita on Torture
7: Gary Francione on Animal Abolitionism
Mind, Self, and Imagination
8: Ned Block on Consciousness
9: Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism
10: Frank Jackson on What Mary Knew
11: Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self
12: Alison Gopnik on the Imagination
Free Will, Responsibility, and Punishment
13: Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting
14: Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck
15: Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibility
16: Victor Tadros on Punishment
17: Philip Pettit on Group Agency
Politics
18: Susan Mendus on Toleration
19: Hillel Steiner on Exploitation
20: Rae Langton on Hate Speech
21: Nancy Fraser on Recognition
22: Tony Coady on Dirty Hands
Metaphysics, Meaning, and Reason
23: Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?
24: Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reason
25: Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
26: Susan Wolf on Meaning in Life
27: Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife

Author Information

David Edmonds, Oxford University, and Nigel Warburton

David Edmonds is an award-winning documentary maker for the BBC World Service. He is the author or co-author (with John Eidinow) of several books, including Wittgenstein`s Poker (short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award), Bobby Fischer Goes To War (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson prize), and Rousseau`s Dog (about the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume). He is currently a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and an Associate Editor for Prospect Magazine.

Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher, podcaster, and writer. His books include A Little History of Philosophy, Philosophy: the Basics, Thinking from A to Z, Philosophy: the Classics, The Art Question, and Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction. He runs several weblogs including virtualphilosopher.com and artandallusion.com, and tweets regularly at @philosophybites.

Contributors:
Ned Block, New York University
Noël Carroll, Graduate School of The City University of New York
Pat Churchland, University of California, San Diego
C. A. J. Coady, University of Melbourne
Fiery Cushman, Brown University
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
David Edmonds, University of Oxford, BBC
Kit Fine, New York University
Gary Francione, Rutgers University
Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research
Raimond Gaita, King`s College London
Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Hurka, University of Toronto
Frank Jackson, Australian National University
Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics
Rae Langton, University of Cambridge
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Susan Mendus, University of York
John Mikhail, Georgetown University
Stephen Neale, Graduate School of The City University of New York
Philip Pettit, Princeton University
Samuel Scheffler, New York University
Dan Sperber, Central European University / Institut Nicod, Paris
Hillel Steiner, University of Manchester
Galen Strawson, The University of Texas at Austin
Victor Tadros, University of Warwick
Michael Tye, University of Texas at Austin
Nigel Warburton, Freelance philosopher
Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill