Professor Chris Bertram’s inaugural professorial lecture, on the importance of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Chris Bertram "on the subject of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his continued relevance to modern society and political philosophy." From http://crookedtimber.org/2009/07/03/rousseau-podcast/
part of the "Philosophy at Bristol" series http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/blog/
Discussing Plato’s Republic, primarily books 1 and 2, on justice and the ideal state.
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/07/11/episode-40-platos-republic-what-is-justice/
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975) about the evolution of power structures from overt and harsh to covert and omni-present.
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/01/11/episode-49-foucault-on-power-and-punishment/
Discussing Hobbes’s Leviathan, Chapters 13-15. Have we implicitly signed a social contract whereby our native right to punch other people in the face is
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2009/06/07/episode-3-hobbess-leviathan-the-social-contract/