In these podcasts I will concentrate on some topical issues in Political Philosophy, and later in the History and Philosophy of Science. Broadly speaking, Political Philosophy is a social science. So there is a natural transition from issues in Political Philosophy to topics in the Philosophy of Science.
The Introduction explains my approach to philosophy. It focuses on philosophical problems - I give some typical examples - and attempts to solve them, rather than on the ideas of the 'great thinkers'. In fact, I follow Karl Popper who described this approach as 'situational logic'. It is an assessment of respective problem situations: an analysis of the problems and attempts to solve them. (You can learn more about this approach from my intellectual biography of Karl Popper - Professional Philosopher and Public Intellectual. Springer 2022)
Episode 1 addresses three questions: What is Political Philosophy (in contrast to Political Science)? Why do we need Political Philosophy and which purpose do its findings serve.
In the following episodes I first turn to some other problems in Political Philosophy, as the description of each episode shows.
In later episodes, I will turn to some selected problems in the Philosophy of Science, and then alternate between Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science.
Literature: Generally, you will find articles on all the topics I discuss on either the scholarly Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or the more accessible Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
