The Philosopher's Zone - Program podcast Folgen

On this Philosopher’s Zone we’re looking at agents. Not secret agents but rather public agents: an agent is just somebody who does something for a purpose and an agent is distinguished from a patient. The agent is the person who does things and the patient is the person to whom things are done. But do we have to be talking about individual persons here or can groups of people be agents in the way that individuals can? This week, we investigate.

There are many areas of human endeavour with which philosophy can be connected: the law, religion, science, mathematics -- but martial arts?  This week we talk to Damon Young, Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, who is both a philosopher and a grappler, about what martial arts have to tell us of thinking and being.

Michael Dummett, one of the greatest English philosophers of the twentieth century, died late in December at the age of 86.