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Podcast Profile: Dialogues: a philosophy podcast

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13 episodes
2018
Median: 18 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

Description (podcaster-provided):

Snodger Media produces the Dialogues Podcast, and other radio works.

Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Ethics debates with philosophers • Climate justice and sea-level rise • Consumer complicity in injustice • Equality, redistribution, social esteem • Immigration, national identity • Consent and autonomy over time • Organisational wrongdoing • Insect consciousness • Morality, shame, culture • Parenthood, procreation, charity

This podcast presents conversations among philosophers—often featuring a guest—about ethical and political questions that arise in everyday life and public policy. Discussions are framed as open-ended dialogues that clarify concepts, test arguments, and explore what different moral commitments imply in practice.

Across the episodes, recurring themes include fairness and equality, responsibility and wrongdoing (including how blame and accountability work in groups and organisations), and the moral significance of social relations such as family ties, parental duties, and obligations to strangers. The show also examines consent and the conditions under which someone can reasonably know whether consent has been given, alongside broader questions about autonomy and how earlier choices can constrain later selves.

A substantial portion of the content focuses on applied ethics and justice in contemporary contexts: migration and national identity, consumer complicity in global injustices connected to ordinary purchases, and the ethics of procreation in relation to rights, environmental concerns, and parental influence over children’s traits. The podcast also engages with climate-related issues, including sea-level rise and what “adaptation justice” might require.

In addition to human-centered moral and political topics, the podcast sometimes turns to questions in philosophy of mind and moral status, such as whether nonhuman creatures like insects might be conscious and why that matters. Overall, listeners can expect analytic, interview-style philosophical discussion linking abstract ideas to concrete social dilemmas.

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