'Who speaks for me?'
Debate with Tanuka Loha
Catalyst, November / December 2006
'It's
not where you come from, it's where you're going that matters'
Debate with Howard Jacobson, James Woudhuysen and Juliet Gardner
Part of Radio 3's 'Free Thinking Festival' in Liverpool
BBC Radio 3, 10 November 2006
[The link is to a Radio 3 RealPlayer recording)
The
Dispatches debate: Muslims and free speech
Television debate with Imran Khan on whether the right to free speech should
include the right to give offence
Dispatches, Channel 4, 23 October 2006
(The link is to YouTube)
Debating Singer
The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 36, 4th quarter 2006
Iconoclasts: Peter Singer
Debate on Peter Singer's philosophy
with Peter Singer, Andrew Linzey and Janet Radcliffe Richards
BBC Radio 4, 6 September 2006
(The link is to a Radio 4 RealPlayer recording)
'You won't
find chimps having this debate'
Debate with Richard Ryder on the ethics of animal experimentation
Guardian, 14 June 2006
'Freedom
of expression must include the licence to offend'
Debate oragnised by Intelligence Squared
Royal Geographical Society, London, 7 June 2006
'Hate
speech in a plural society'
Talk given as part of a debate on the limits of hate speech speech
at an EU NGO forum on
'Incitement, hate speech and the right to free expression'
Lancaster House, London, 8-9 December 2005
'What does
integration mean in Britain today?'
Exchange of letters with Bernard Crick
JCWI Bulletin, January 2005
'Do we need a theory of human nature to know how to act?'
Talk given as part of a discussion with Phillip Pullman and Ania Loomba
Conference on 'Science, Literature and Human Nature'
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 8 May 2003
'Too
diverse?'
Response to David Goodhart's essay on immigration, diversity and solidarity
Prospect, March 2004
'Is there something
wrong with humanism?'
Debate with Jeremy Stangroom,
Butterfliesandwheels.com, August 2003
'The legacy
of relativism'
Discussion with Simon Blackburn, Steve Woolgar and Robert Eaglestone
Conference on 'Ideas, Intellectuals and the Public'
Goodenough College, London, 20 June 2003
'Does multiculturalism work?'
Debate with Adam Kuper, Bonnie Greer and Farsad Khosrokhavar
Conference on 'Attention Seeking: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition'
Institut Français, London, 16 November 2002
'Do humans own culture?'
Debate with Andrew Whiten, Patrick Bateson and Caroline Humphrey
The Royal Society, London, 2 October 2002
'Determining the self'
Debate with Colin Blakemore and Alan Munslow
Rewley House, Oxford, 6 November 2001
'What is it to be human?'
Debate with Susan Blackmore, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 5 December
2000
'Should we grant rights to apes?'
Debate with Peter Singer, Prospect, May 1999
'Annotated bibliography of nonsense'
Debate with Steve Fuller, Independent on Sunday, 28 June 1998