Agnes Callard on Complaint

We blame people, and sometimes we blame institutions. Miranda Fricker investigates the nature of blame and its functions, draws some important distinctions, and considers the metaphysical implications of this practice. 

There is a long tradition of caste in South Asia. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nilanjan Das discusses a pre-modern philosophical critic of the whole system, and particularly of its underlying metaphysical assumptions. This episode was supported by the Ideas Wor ...  Show more

We often look down on people who complain a lot. Yet when something goes wrong in our own lives, many of us go straight to griping, grumbling and kvetching. This week. we talk with psychologist Ro ...

Do the Irish complain about bad service?Justine O’Mahoney, Columnist with the Wexford People has been writing about this recently. What do you think?Anna Daly is joined by listeners to discuss if we complain enough. 

Are you , or someone you know, living a complaints-based life? In this episode, Carly Taylor talks through why we complain, how to get into solution mode (if there is one) and taking responsibility for how we ride the urge to complain wave. She'll leave you with a challenge - sto ...  Show more

07: What better re-introduction to a space than complaining about it? Welcome BACK (yes, its been a while- thank you for being patient with me) to Working Title, a podcast where we figure it all out together, topic by topic. Today: having qualms with your "workplace" (in my case, ...  Show more