{"id":1253,"date":"2011-09-10T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2011-09-10T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T09:20:04","slug":"philosophy-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2011\/09\/10\/philosophy-on-the-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy on the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re all probably way ahead of me on this, but there&#8217;s a series called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b014b73y\">The Philosopher&#8217;s Arms<\/a><\/em> currently enjoying a run on Radio 4. \u00a0The premise of the programme is that philosophical questions are discussed in the context of a conversation in the pub &#8211; which has, of course, been the traditional haunt of philosophers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symposium_(Plato)\">ever since Plato and his mates went out on the razz and decided to publish the transcripts of what was said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Practical Ethics blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk\/2011\/09\/the-experience-machine\/\">currently has a survey running<\/a> on Nozick&#8217;s experience machine thought-experiment. \u00a0Go and have a look. \u00a0Better yet, pour yourself another drink, and <em>then<\/em> go and have a look.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re all probably way ahead of me on this, but there&#8217;s a series called The Philosopher&#8217;s Arms currently enjoying a run on Radio 4. \u00a0The premise of the programme is that philosophical questions are discussed in the context of a conversation in the pub &#8211; which has, of course, been the traditional haunt of philosophers [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2011\/09\/10\/philosophy-on-the-radio\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,963,1273,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-curios","category-ethics-education","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}