With multiple new ways of listening to sound, whether via your phone, an iPod or your laptop, this week we ask whether radio has a future. Its demise has been foretold many times in recent decades and yet radio has managed to renew itself. But is it facing its biggest challenge yet?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/21-december-2012/4433714
We begin this series with an introduction to Jewish philosophy, from Ancient times onwards - an attempt to explore some of the key thinkers and recurring philosophical questions. Our guide is Tamar Rudavsky from Ohio State University.
Guests :
Tamar Rudavsky, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, United States
Further Information :
Tamar Rudavsky - university homepage (http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/rudavsky1/)
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-judaic/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Gersonides (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gersonides/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Abraham Ibn Daud (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abraham-daud/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Publications :
Title: Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century
Author: Editors Tamar Rudavsky & Steven Nadler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Jan 2009)
Title: Maimonides
Author: Tamar Rudavsky
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell (2010)
Music :
CD title: Music of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Track title: El Eliyah
Composer: Kim Cunio
CD details: Lotus Foot Productions (2000) LFP 101.2
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2011/3318686.htm
Zombies have been enjoying a bit of a revival, lately (though perhaps ‘enjoy’, which implies inner consciousness, is not the word we want here). The Hollywood zombie is a revenge-seeking corpse with a fervent hunger for human flesh, the traditional Haitian zombie is a kind of robotic slave but the philosophical zombie is a hypothetical figure: a creature like us in every respect but with no inner life. So what does the zombie have to teach us about the nature of human consciousness?
Guests:
David Chalmers
Professor – School of Philosophy
Australian National University
Further Information:
David Chalmers - personal homepage – https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/chalmers-dj
David Chalmers - university homepage – https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/chalmers-dj
Zombies - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
David Chalmers Sings "The Zombie Blues" (Youtube) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS4VFh3xOU
Zombies on the web - compiled by David Chalmers – http://consc.net/zombies.html
Online papers on consciousness - compiled by David Chalmers – http://consc.net/online
All in the Mind on zombies and consciousness - 2002 – http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2002/534412.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2011/3311116.htm