Random Kant Podcasts

A weekly ‘informal and informative’ philosophy podcast inspiring and supporting students, teachers, academics and free-thinkers worldwide. All episodes are available at www.thepanpsycast.com. Galileo Galilei is widely considered to be the father of modern science and one of the greatest philosophers to have lived. Galileo played a pivotal role in the developments of the scientific revolution, overturning key tenants of Aristotelian physics and most significantly, advocating mathematics as the language of science. For Galileo, the physics of the past was plagued with unhelpful sensory qualities like colours, tastes, smells and sounds; for science to make progress, he thought, ‘the book of the universe’ must be written in a purely quantitative language. For Durham University’s Philip Goff, this was Galileo’s Error. The hard problem of consciousness was born when Galileo stripped consciousness away from the scientific picture. Somehow, we must find a way back. We must lay the foundations for a new science – a new science of consciousness. Contents Part I. Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Part II. Further Analysis and Discussion Links Philip Goff, Galileo’s Error (2019). Philip Goff, Website. Philip Goff, Twitter.

Categories: Arts, Education, Society & Culture

Tags: aristotle, camus, conscience, consciousness, cosmological, davidpapineau, dennett, ethics, euthanasia, evilgodchallenge, existentialism, jeremybentham, johnstuartmill, josephfletcher, kant, kantianethics, kierkegaard, marx, marxism, mind, nagasawa, nietzsche, ocr

Is the death penalty right or wrong? Does it act as a deterrent to serious crime? And is it necessarily an inhumane act? December 16th 2009 sees the 40th anniversary of the abolition in the UK of capital punishment for the crime of murder. In this specially recorded discussion, Professor Gary Slapper, Director of the Centre for Law at The Open University, Professor Barbara Hudson, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central Lancashire, and Dr. Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, explore some of the fundamental issues underpinning our attitudes to this most severe of punishments. The discussion is chaired by radio journalist Penny Boreham.

Categories: Education

Tags: consequentialist, criminal justice, death row, deontological, Execution, hanging, Human Rights, kant, Mill, retribution