Mark Hopwood

speaker

1,269 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2009 last heard Sep 2014

Mark Hopwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Elucidations · Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice · 6 Oct 2010 podcast

That all we really have at that point is our gut reaction to injustice.

So we've talked about the different ways in which we might be able to come to a reasoned conclusion about just and unjust situations without appeal to an ideal theory of the ideally just society.

One argument you've also made, though, and that you've referred to implicitly, is that we might not need just one set of reasons or just

Just one scale on which we're assessing justice and injustice.

So that it might be possible, if I have your view right, to have a number of different, potentially even competing sets of reasons, different perspectives that we might have, different kinds of arguments that we might give for the justice or injustice of certain situations.

And that we don't need to resolve those debates, if indeed they can be resolved, in order to come.

So perhaps you could say something about that.

Yes.

Elucidations · Episode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration · 8 Sep 2010 podcast

So your view is not that in fact religion does not deserve toleration, but simply that there's no special reason to tolerate religion over and above any other matter of conscience. voice-verified

Why is that exactly? voice-verified

As you've said, the tradition sees religion as a special case. voice-verified

This is a very widespread moral and legal view. voice-verified

So on what basis do you challenge that? voice-verified

So you mentioned that your strategy of providing a definition of religion is one that's not generally been popular amongst philosophers and those in the legal profession. voice-verified

Possibly one of the reasons for that is that a definition invites counterexamples. voice-verified

So I thought I might try a couple out on you. voice-verified

Please. voice-verified

So to take, say, the first characteristic that you've identified, insulation from reasons and evidence. voice-verified

One might imagine either that that lets in too much or that it doesn't let in enough. voice-verified

In the second case, I can remember having, when I was young, a book called It All Makes Sense. voice-verified

Showing 701–720 of 1,269 · page 36 of 64