Start / Within Reason / 114 simon blackburn what is ethical emotivism

#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?

84 min • 28 juli 2025

Simon Blackburn is well-known both as a writer of popular philosophy introductions (like Think), and also a significant figure in non-cognitivist meta-ethics, having invented the term “quasi-realism” to describe his moral philosophy.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senaste avsnitt

#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin

13 november 2024 | 167 min

#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID

31 oktober 2024 | 99 min

#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis

28 oktober 2024 | 97 min

#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs

22 september 2024 | 60 min

#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge

15 september 2024 | 111 min

#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer

9 september 2024 | 151 min

#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe

1 september 2024 | 63 min

#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA

25 augusti 2024 | 53 min

#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan

11 augusti 2024 | 69 min

#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical

29 juli 2024 | 110 min

#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?

21 juli 2024 | 111 min

#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve

16 juli 2024 | 120 min

#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles

7 juli 2024 | 147 min

#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism?

30 juni 2024 | 80 min

#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!

23 juni 2024 | 157 min

#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?

16 juni 2024 | 65 min

#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism

9 juni 2024 | 81 min

#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy

2 juni 2024 | 80 min

#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine

26 maj 2024 | 101 min

#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?

19 maj 2024 | 85 min

#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?

13 maj 2024 | 70 min

#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?

5 maj 2024 | 60 min

#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh

28 april 2024 | 105 min

#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis

21 april 2024 | 70 min

#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?

14 april 2024 | 63 min

#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA

7 april 2024 | 35 min

#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?

31 mars 2024 | 177 min

#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think

24 mars 2024 | 65 min

#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?

17 mars 2024 | 67 min

#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?

10 mars 2024 | 85 min

#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real

5 mars 2024 | 96 min

#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke

18 februari 2024 | 54 min

#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?

11 februari 2024 | 58 min

#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?

5 februari 2024 | 110 min

#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy

28 januari 2024 | 59 min

#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture

20 januari 2024 | 60 min

#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling

15 januari 2024 | 65 min

#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere

7 januari 2024 | 89 min

#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?

23 december 2023 | 64 min

#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God

16 december 2023 | 94 min

#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?

9 december 2023 | 93 min

#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

4 december 2023 | 93 min

#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too

6 november 2023 | 78 min

#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?

19 oktober 2023 | 65 min

#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview

16 oktober 2023 | 60 min

#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback

4 oktober 2023 | 63 min

#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

24 september 2023 | 77 min

#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism

8 september 2023 | 109 min

#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

20 augusti 2023 | 89 min

#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?

30 juli 2023 | 68 min

#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?

24 juli 2023 | 66 min

#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

25 juni 2023 | 116 min

#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?

19 juni 2023 | 91 min

#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness

7 juni 2023 | 101 min

#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?

29 maj 2023 | 71 min

#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics

22 maj 2023 | 136 min

#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism

14 maj 2023 | 65 min

#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery

7 maj 2023 | 99 min

#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

30 april 2023 | 59 min

#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?

23 april 2023 | 47 min

#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?

18 april 2023 | 127 min

#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists

9 april 2023 | 67 min

#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?

2 april 2023 | 72 min

#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?

26 mars 2023 | 64 min

#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations

19 mars 2023 | 65 min

#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?

12 mars 2023 | 68 min

#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil

12 mars 2023 | 75 min

#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List

17 juni 2022 | 116 min

#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?

7 juni 2022 | 64 min

#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered

21 april 2022 | 77 min

#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford

21 april 2022 | 86 min

#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust

20 november 2020 | 65 min

#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit

9 september 2020 | 55 min

#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument

21 juni 2020 | 76 min

#13 ⁠— Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?

24 maj 2020 | 66 min

#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?

26 april 2020 | 88 min

#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism

25 november 2019 | 84 min

#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God

19 september 2019 | 45 min

#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated

13 september 2019 | 116 min

#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism?

28 augusti 2019 | 74 min

#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds

9 augusti 2019 | 53 min

#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals

21 juli 2019 | 92 min

#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian

12 juni 2019 | 109 min

#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?

Senaste avsnitt

#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?

#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?

#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?

#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus

#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It

#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America

#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?

#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?

#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History

#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God

#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?

#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity

#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman

#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design

#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)

#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer

#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism

#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A

#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man

#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?

#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language

#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas

#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience

#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion

#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art

#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity

#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin

#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID

#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis

#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs

#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge

#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer

#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe

#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA

#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan

#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical

#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?

#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve

#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles

#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism?

#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!

#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?

#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism

#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy

#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine

#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?

#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?

#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?

#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh

#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis

#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?

#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA

#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?

#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think

#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?

#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?

#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real

#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke

#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?

#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?

#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy

#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture

#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling

#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere

#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?

#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God

#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?

#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too

#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?

#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview

#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback

#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism

#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?

#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?