Conversations About Philosophy Volume 2

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Conversations About Philosophy Volume 2 </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:</span></p><p> </p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>1.The Social World Reexamined - A Conversation with Brian Epstein Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brian Epstein's career as a management consultant piqued his interest and his later research into the reasons why our current models of economics politics and other areas of social science so often go terribly wrong. The conversation explores how we can dramatically improve our current economic and political models by reexamining our assumptions about the nature of the social world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2. Kant Applied is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Onora O'Neill Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> After intriguing insights into Onora O'Neill's path to becoming a Kant scholar this conversation explores how Kant's philosophy is relevant for many thorny issues in our contemporary social world from human rights to patient consent to corporate transparency and more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>3. Exploring Spinoza - A Conversation with Susan James Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck University of London.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Susan James is an internationally-renowned Spinoza scholar and author of several books on Spinoza which are discussed in detail during this conversation. Susan James provides detailed insights into Spinoza's ideas and their current relevance; the political environment and the theological struggle about who has control of religion and how much freedom of religion there was during Spinoza's time.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>4. Flourishing Through Spinoza - A Conversation with Hasana Sharp Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This conversation provides detailed insights into Hasana Sharp's book Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization and her sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza's iconoclastic philosophy. Further topics include the implications of Spinoza's naturalism to today's world from issues of social inequality feminism treatment of the elderly and the environment to animal rights.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>5. Meaningfulness - A Conversation with Susan Wolf the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> This thoughtful conversation explores what it is to live an ethical meaningful life in keeping with her book Meaning in Life and Why It Matters the role that love fulfilment self-interest and happiness play in giving meaning to one's life and how meaningful activities occur when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness. </span></p>