Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body

Can a work of art be immoral? What does that mean? Daisy Dixon, author of Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

Which physical characteristics does a woman have to have to be considered beautiful? Are there many different cultural variations on this? Heather Widdows, author of Perfect Me, thinks that today there is a single set of charactestics and that pressure to conform with these has p ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in ...  Show more

Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948). 

Episode 3

This Anthropology Then and Now episode is all about the French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher, Pierre Bordieu. 

Along with your host Maui Voskova and Keito Waldrip, guests Jessica Roessler an ...

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Karl Morris is a highly regarded golf coach, an author of many books, and a podcast host. This conversation with Rupert explores the non-dual perspective on the illusory versus true self and the relevance of this perspective to performance in sp ...