50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God

The 10-minute Puzzle

'The 10-minute Puzzle', from The Northern Institute of Philosophy , is a podcast dedicated to presenting problems that engage contemporary philosophy in a clear, concise and accessible manner. The fifth episode 'Free Will' is now available.


Episodes of The 10-Minute Puzzle are free and can be downloaded from 

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/tenminutepuzzle/

These podcasts are the work of Dr Federico Luzzi and Dr Aidan McGlynn and are made possible by the PRS Centre/Higher Education Academy and a University of Aberdeen Commercialisation Award.

Noam Chomsky speaks to Saswat Pattanayak (Noam Chomsky interviewed by Kindle Magazine)

Kindle Magazine, March 2011

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Hacker Explains Wittgenstein's Complex Philosophy

Considered by many to be one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, Austrian- British Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), had a major influence on logic, logical positivism, as well as on philosophy of mathematics, mind and language. P. M. S. Hacker is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is author of numerous books and articles on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and a leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his many publications on Wittgenstein are Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy, Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein and the monumental four volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations published by Blackwell, the first two volumes of which are co-authored with G. P. Baker.

Entrevista com Timothy Williamson

TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON (hereafter TW) has been the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University since 2000. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are in philosophical logic, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is the author of:

Skyrms discusses the finer points of social contract theory

*By Michelle S. Kim
University Communications

Distinguished Professor Brian Skyrms will receive the UCI Alumni Association's highest honor, the Lauds & Laurels Extraordinarius award, for his insights into life's deepest questions. It's rather fitting that world-renowned philosopher Brian Skyrms occupies an office on the seventh floor of UC Irvine's Social Science Tower. The bearded professor is on a higher plane than most mortals — pondering life's deepest questions and framing complex theories about how we interact and communicate.