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November 2008

Sat 29: Martha Nussbaum - Part 2 - Thinking about Animals Read Transcript
Sat 22: Martha Nussbaum - Part 1 - The Social Contract Read Transcript
Sat 15: Scapegoats and sacrifices - Rene Girard Read Transcript
Sat 08: The philosophy of cold hard cash Read Transcript
Sat 01: The John Anderson lectures Read Transcript

October 2008

Sat 25: Karl Popper and the logic of the market Read Transcript
Sat 18: Why Asian philosophy? Read Transcript
Sat 11: Bailouts, capitalism and the financial markets Read Transcript
Sat 04: Music and the Enlightenment Read Transcript

September 2008

August 2008

Sat 30: Light from the North - The Scottish Enlightenment Read Transcript
Sat 23: Worrying about China Read Transcript
Sat 16: Uprootedness and national conflicts Read Transcript
Sat 09: Objective truth Read Transcript
Sat 02: Stoics at war Read Transcript

July 2008

Sat 26: Literature, law and ethics - The case of Billy Budd Read Transcript
Sat 19: Damned if you do and damned if you don't Read Transcript
Sat 12: Taking God for granted (or not) Read Transcript
Sat 05: John Gray at the Writers' Festival - Part 2 Read Transcript

June 2008

May 2008

Sat 31: Mai '68 Read Transcript
Sat 24: Suicide - To be or not to be (part 2) Read Transcript
Sat 17: Suicide - To be or not to be (Part 1) Read Transcript
Sat 10: Practical philosophy and speculative fiction Read Transcript
Sat 03: Doing without a ruler: in defence of anarchism Read Transcript

April 2008

Sat 26: Morality and political violence Read Transcript
Sat 19: Time for philosophers Read Transcript
Sat 12: Steam-age philosophy Read Transcript
Sat 05: Queensland - Beautiful one day, metaphysical the next Read Transcript

March 2008

Sat 29: Buffy the Concept Slayer Read Transcript
Sat 22: Islam and philosophy - Tariq Ramadan Read Transcript
Sat 15: Philosophy and the Natural World - Val Plumwood Read Transcript
Sat 08: Gavagai! Read Transcript
Sat 01: Philosophy in another tongue Read Transcript

February 2008

Sat 23: Why there's no getting away from beauty... Read Transcript
Sat 16: Philosophers advising government Read Transcript
Sat 09: The Emergence of Science, Part 2 Read Transcript
Sat 02: The Emergence of Science, Part 1 Read Transcript

January 2008

Sat 26: Philosophical love stories Read Transcript
Sat 19: Philosophy for Lunch Read Transcript
Sat 12: Minds and computers Read Transcript
Sat 05: Philosophy in schools Read Transcript