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The Philosophy Bites podcast is largely a labour of love. At present we have no sponsor.We are, however, extremely grateful to those who have chosen to support us via Patreon and Paypal - Paypal links are in the sidebar of our weblog www.philosophybites.comWe are particularly grateful to people who have pledged over £200 per annum - most recently Paul Beardsell. Thank you, Paul! If you have pledged over £200 per annum and would like your name to appear on the weblog, please email me via the email me link in the weblog sidebar. Philosophy Bites episode downloads to date: 40,470,377. Suggestions for what we should do when we hit 50 million downloads very welcome! We hope you enjoyed our two lockdown interviews - Nigel interviewing David Edmonds on his bestseller Wittgenstein s Poker, and David interviewing Nigel Warburton on his bestseller A Little History of Philosophy. Stay safe. We hope the interviews are helping you get through these difficult times. Verificationists believe that meaningful propositions are either true by definition (analytic) or else empirically verifiable or falsifiable. Propositions that fail to pass this two-pronged test for meaningfulness are literally meaningless. This approach, linked to the Vienna Circle, and popularised in England (especially Oxford) by A.J.Ayer in his 1936 iconoclastic book Language, Truth and Logic, has fallen from favour. But Liam Kofi Bright wants us to take it seriously. He discusses Verificationism with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. David himself has a forthcoming book on the Vienna Circle, The Murder of Professor Schlick... Liam Bright is @lastpostive on Twitter.Listen to Liam Bright on Verificationism We asked Seth Adelman (@sethadelman on Twitter) a longterm fan of Philosophy Bites who catalogued our backlist to select 10 episodes that are particularly relevant to our current situation. Seth writes: I think these are all appropriate for our time, whether or not one agrees with the interviewee s perspective:John Cottingham on The Meaning of LifeSamuel Scheffler on the AfterlifeShelly Kagan on Death and DeprivationJohn Broome on Weighing LivesKimberley Brownlee on Social DeprivationAnthony Appiah on CosmopolitanismSusan Wolf on Meaning In LifeWilliam B. Irvine on Living StoicallyRichard Tuck on Free RidingKate Soper on Alternative HedonismCottingham centers his discussion around life’s fragility. Scheffler, Kagan, Broome and Brownlee are all clearly relevant, and by this point a couple common themes have emerged: our biologic commonalities and our interdependence.So who better than Appiah to take these ideas and frame them in such a generous way? His examples are from the mid-2000s but don’t affect the spirit of his argument, and I think listeners might need to hear something more hopeful at this point.Susan Wolf is similarly broad-minded, and her idea that meaning in life isn t confined to morality as such (as long as someone benefits from your actions) is just as welcome. Irvine’s approach is obviously meant to be practical, and one doesn t need to be a capital-S Stoic to find his discussions of negative visualization and degrees of control helpful.Richard Tuck’s discussion of free riding is especially relevant once we substitute ‘social distancing’ for any of his examples. And while Soper s anti-consumerist perspective might seem untimely, the sort of lifestyle she s advocating is oddly compatible with the restrictions most of us are living under and perhaps worth reconsidering.Thanks Seth! How should we go about deciding what to do? Philosophers often discuss abstract simplified thought experiments. But is the best way to go about things? James Wilson thinks not. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he explains why. Listen to James Wilson Real World EthicsWe are grateful for support for this episode from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from Patreon supporters.Read James Wilson s essay Internal and External Validity in Thought Experiments What is a woman? no longer seems a straightforward question. The philosopher Kathleen Stock discusses the category of woman and how we think about it in conversation with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast series. This is a contentious topic. The interview includes discussion of genitalia. Listen to Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?Read Kathleen Stock s Quillette essay on sex and genderListen to Amia Srinivassan on Philosophy Bites discussing the question What is a Woman?Kathleen Stock is @Docstockk on Twitter. People like to think of themselves as reasonably virtuous, but there is usually a gap between how they think of themselves and how they actually behave. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Christian Miller discusses this gap and how we can close it. Listen to Christian Miller on the Character GapWe are grateful for support for this episode from the Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophers sometimes talk about other possible worlds to explore the one we live in, others, such as David Lewis, even believe that all possible worlds actually exist. Helen Beebee explains how philosophers use possible world scenarios and why this matters in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Listen to Helen Beebee on Possible WorldsWe are very grateful for support from the Marc Sanders Foundation, and from our Patreon supporters, for this episode. You can subscribe to Philosophy Bites on iTunes, or buy our app from the app store. You can also find us on Spotify (mobile only). 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