Rescuing Cohen for iTunes
by Harry on June 14, 2009
Those who enjoyed our reading group on Rescuing Justice and Equality
can now listen to the Center for the Study of Social Justice conference honouring G.A. Cohen on your ipods, courtesy of Oxford University podcasts (scroll about half way down the page to the Department of Politics and International Relations — if someone can find a handier way to link to them, please tell me). Speakers include John Roemer, Seana Shiffrin, Michael Otsuka, Cecile Fabre, Paula Casal, David Miller, David Estlund and Andrew Williams. The audio quality is a bit rough in places, but mostly good, and always good enough. (You can also get there on iTunes, but I can’t figure out how to link to that. In the iTunes store just search for CSSJ. As a bonus, if you search for Hartry Field, you get to his 2008 John Locke Lectures). As a bonus, you can hear Roemer explain why he came to believe that all philosophers are idiots.
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Patrick S. O'Donnell 06.14.09 at 3:29 pm
I don’t own an ipod and I don’t know what iTunes are.
John Holbo 06.14.09 at 3:42 pm
I own an iPod and, what’s more, I know what iTunes is. Thanks, Harry, I’m downloading this one and loading up
harry b 06.14.09 at 4:15 pm
Oh, you can listen without using an ipod too, just click on the other icon and it plays in quicktime on your computer.
Patrick S. O'Donnell 06.14.09 at 4:25 pm
Thanks.
yabonn 06.14.09 at 5:19 pm
But there’s something to the way a brand name and technology is used, no?
I don’t have a very precise picture in mind of how these things really work, but it seems that broadcasting info in the net usually involves standards, more than apps : you read an mp3 with whatever.
And yet, there’s Itunes here and Podcasts there (granted, for the latter, the brand gave name to the thing and you don’t need an ipod, etc). Still feels a little weird to me. Maybe internet use ends up shaping expectations : “for information spreading, thou shalt use app agnostic standards”.
Danny Shahar 06.14.09 at 5:28 pm
This is cool, thanks! If you want to link directly to the iTunes podcast, the link is this: itpc://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/politics/general-audio/rss20.xml?destination=poau
Also, I suspect that something has gone amiss with my attempts to e-mail you (Dr. Brighouse). Perhaps I have been deemed a spammer? In any case, my e-mail address is dcshahar [at] gmail [dot] com; I’d love to hear from you!
Chris Dornan 06.14.09 at 6:30 pm
Any further clues as to which podacst will explain to us why all philosophers are idiots?
Chris Dornan 06.14.09 at 6:33 pm
I am sorry, that would ‘#4: CSSJ: Cohen Conference: The Ethics of Distribution in a Warming Planet’ for Roemer’s explanation (author columns is the giveaway–doh).
parsimon 06.14.09 at 6:59 pm
As a bonus, you can hear Roemer explain why he came to believe that all philosophers are idiots.
This is an excuse to make me learn about this iTunes and podcasting business, isn’t it? Clever.
Righteous Bubba 06.14.09 at 7:15 pm
All mp3s require iTunes, all soda is Coke.
parsimon 06.14.09 at 11:44 pm
All mp3s require iTunes, all soda is Coke.
I am aware of this.
John Holbo 06.15.09 at 1:37 am
“Maybe internet use ends up shaping expectations : “for information spreading, thou shalt use app agnostic standardsâ€.”
Naw, it’s older than that. “We’re xeroxing the paper for everyone before the seminar.”
Chris Edmond 06.15.09 at 2:05 am
What a beautifully lucid piece of reasoning from Roemer….
Just goes to show what economics can bring in terms of true analytic clarity….
(ducks)
Donald Johnson 06.16.09 at 2:53 am
“As a bonus, you can hear Roemer explain why he came to believe that all philosophers are idiots.”
Anyone want to give a summary, for those of us curious, but not curious enough to listen?
Harry 06.16.09 at 11:36 am
Sure, I’ll give it another day or two though…
Laura 06.17.09 at 5:51 am
‘Xeroxing’ is not a universal usage. In Australia we say ‘photocopying’.
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