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Idle Talk
Idle Talk is a philosophy based podcast aimed at making philosophy interesting and accessible for everyone. Philosophy is for everyone, we all ask questions. The show features interviews with academics and other interesting people from outside academia. Shows are sometimes silly, sometimes serious and cover a wide range of topics.
During the live shows anyone can call in using the Skype name “rhodders.com” . Any comments or suggestions please email info AT rhodders.com
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This morning I woke up to a nice email. An Idle Talk episode on Audioboo has been listened to over 1000 times. Hear the episode here- https://audioboo.fm/boos/1502575-idle-talk-14-07-13-email-and-the-alienation-of-the-worker 1000 people cant be wrong!
This week we try and tackle the somewhat scary question of whether or not we have free will. If you subscribe to the idea of cause and effect then everything happens as a result of a prior cause. This must apply to us so are Read More ...
People often ask me why I started presenting Idle Talk, my philosophy radio show. Previously I had mostly presented comedy/entertainment breakfast show style programs. Admittedly it does seem a bit weird to go from a show called “Thank God it’s Friday” filled with prank calls Read More ...
Nicola @nicola_patten joins @rhodders for another week of philosophical talk and odd silly side track This week we talked about Carl Marx’ idea of alienation. Defined in the simple terms as a feeling of being our of sorts with ones self and the world. Carl Read More ...
Catch the show live by following @rhodders on twitter or Facebook- http://facebook.com/thisisrhodders This week the topic is can films be philosophical? We argue over how suitable the medium of film is in articulating philosophical questions and ideas when compared to books. Are films better than Read More ...
It came as a pleasant surprise to find that the iTunes podcast store has a philosophy section. It was an event nicer surprise to find my Idle Talk podcast is listed under “whats hot”. So its not just the weather. Thanks for all your downloads Read More ...
This week’s topic is What is beauty? Everybody thinks they have an idea of beauty, they can point out a beautiful person, a beautiful painting etc but where do we get this conception of beauty from? why is it we can call a landscape and Read More ...
This week’s topic is charity and effective altruism. In an age where many charities are run in the same way as commercial businesses we question whether it is even possible to give to charity effectively. We explore a possible solution to this problem, the idea Read More ...
This week’s topic is the free rider problem. “A free rider, in economics, refers to someone who benefits from resources, goods, or services without paying for the cost of the benefit”. We try and workout if someone who avoids paying tax, yet still takes advantage Read More ...
What is the best form of government? Should it be any dictatorship, democracy or something else? One way of answering this question is to examine our human nature, find out what we’re really like and find a type of government that suits our inclinations and Read More ...