
Galen Strawson
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
3 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Free Will(500th programme)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the problem of free will - the extent to which we are able to choose our actions.
10 March 2011
Also featuring: Simon Blackburn, Helen Beebee
Virtue
Melvyn Bragg discusses a history of the concept of virtue from the ancient Greeks to modern ideas, and examines why we need it and what ideals of behaviour provide a universal framework for it.
28 February 2002
Also featuring: Miranda Fricker, Roger Crisp
Good and Evil
Melvyn Bragg examines what the discoveries of Darwin and our knowledge of the true physiological nature and history of man has done for us in terms understanding our concepts of good and evil.
1 April 1999
Also featuring: Leszek Kołakowski