Philosophy Bites

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1. Jun8Sep 2021
   To supplement the material mentioned here I’d suggest the excellent Philosophy Bites podcast (also available as books). Each episode is an interview with an eminent philosopher on an interesting topic and the level of discussion is very understandable.
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2. Jun8Jun 2018
   My layman's suggestion is that, rather than trying to read the ancients, start with how ideas from them and more current philosophers are relevant in today's debates. This is akin to diving into using a prog language with little understanding rather than reading books about it, it's more fun!

   If you want to follow the above approach I think the best resource is the fantastic Philosophy Bites podcast (http://www.philosophybites.com/) where philosophers are interviewed. And if you're more of a printed matter type of person, they have books with the transcribed interviews, too (https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Bites-David-Edmonds/dp/019...).

   This, I think, is a great way to identify the areas of philosophy you're interested in to zoom in further.

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3. jonathansizzJul 2017
   Council on Foreign Relations: The World Next Week, The President's Inbox

   Financial Times: World Weekly, The Money Show, Alphachat

   BBC: The World This Week, Analysis, In Our Time, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Public Philosopher, A History of Ideas

   Philosophy: The Partially Examined Life, Philosophy Bites, The Philosopher's Zone, The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps

   Others:

   The Carnegie Podcast

   Radio Atlantic

   Guardian Books

   Guardian Science Weekly

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4. onion2kOct 2015
   We desperately need a new way of thinking about free will.

   We really don't.

   The author of the article has written off hundreds of years of philosophical debate about determinist free will versus indeterminism and decided that his interpretation of free will, which falls firmly in the causal indeterminism camp, is the right way to think about things. Admittedly that's the nice one, because determinism is hard when it comes to things like ethics and morality, but we don't need to redefine 'free will' to have the discussion. Especially when it's a low redefinition[1].

   The fact is whether or not we have free will is largely irrelevant. There's a really interesting Philosophy Bites podcast with Daniel Dennett about what's important in the free will question[2]. It's well worth a listen if you're interested in philosophical stuff.

   [1] http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redefine.html

   [2] http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Daniel_Dennett_on_...

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5. mtravenMay 2011
   Foucault and Deleuze are definitely not for beginners. Don't start there.

   It really depends what you are interested in. You might check out the Philosophy Bites podcast: http://philosophybites.com/ (now a book too) which has good, short discussions of current issues, and might help you figure out which philosophical questions you are interested in.

   If you really want to tackle continental philosophy and have a computer background, I suggest starting with Phil Agre's work, like here: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

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6. jseligerJun 2012
   Philosophy is about posing new questions, not providing answers.

   I'm increasingly under the impression that philosophy is "about" whatever the individual philosopher or reader or writer wants it to be about, and that a lot of philosophers really like arguing about what philosophy is about. Granted, this comes mostly from sporadic reading in the field and from listening to Philosophy Bites, but the combination has still made me increasingly skeptical of explanations about what philosophy is about.

   Link: http://www.philosophybites.com/

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