This week’s topic is self-inflicted health conditions and the right to treatment. Should, for example, smokers get lower priority treatment from the NHS because their illness is a result of their choice to smoke? To what degree is it reasonable to hold patients responsible for there Read More …
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Idle Talk 18 11 12 “I believe in miracles…”
This week’s topic is religious experience. We attempt to answer questions such as What is a religious experience? Are religious experience is genuine? Can they be used to prove the existence of God? The discussion then looks more closely at miracles and David Hume’s argument against Read More …
Idle Talk 11 11 12- “Fame! I want to live forever…”
This week’s topic is fame and the cult of celebrity. Illustrator Nicola is in the co host corner. We try to answer the questions: “why do we care about celebrities? What is a celebrity? Why do people want to be famous? And is there sociological Read More …
Idle Talk 14 10 12 “Call me a sceptic…”
Our topic this week is, ” does the external world exist?”. How do you know that you are really situated in a physical world? We start by discussing the early sceptics such as Phyrrho (they don’t believe in nothing!), and then attempt to tackle Descarts Read More …
Idle Talk 20 10 12 “What’s your favourite colour? And does it exist?”
This week we are talking about colours. Is the world coloured or not? Are objects such as green hedges, red roses and yellow bananas really coloured? Or is the colour we experience only in our mind? Nicola is cohost. On the show: in “the philosophy Read More …
Idle Talk 23 09 12 free will and determinism
The central topic this weeks show was free will and determinism. Do we have free will? Are we truly in control of our actions or is everything we do is simply a result of something which happened before? Illustrator and all round loon Nicola Patten Read More …
Idle Talk 09 09 12 “From Michael Mcintyre to medical ethics”
A wide ranging and strange assortment of topics this week including: Is Rhodders’s philosophy degree worthless? Doing stand up in Brighton, why comedians hate Michael McIntyre, Frankie Boyle, comedians publicly supporting political parties, political discussion is impossible, debunking stupid Facebook health scare-cold water and leading Read More …
Idle Talk 02/09/12 – Lessons for Life, From the Mosh Pit
Rhodders is back after a holiday from the show. During this holiday he went to a music festival. This week we discussed Joe Dunthorne’s idea that “mosh pit psychology” could help us live our everyday lives more peacefully and happily. Prior to discussing this main topic there Read More …
Idle Talk 12 08 12 Crime, punishment and Revenge
Despite feeling a little under the weather Rhodders struggles through some of today’s big issues. Starting with the sport, moving on to the justification of criminal punishment and ending in a shooting! Our guest this week is Niall Norbury a politics and philosophy graduate from Read More …
Idle Talk 02 08 12 “Ethics, Olympics and Doping”
In the words of Will I Am”That’s dope man!” With the Olympics still taking over London the show this week is about the ethics of substance doping and Gene doping in sports. Rhodders’ guest this week is Nick Harding, a masters student in ethics and Read More …