{"podcast":{"title":"Philosophy Bites","slug":"philosophy-bites-894386","podcast_index_feed_id":894386,"rss_url":"https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.philosophybites.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/6/2/9/6629afb289ae5c80/philo_bites.jpg","author":"Nigel Warburton","episode_count":405,"summary":"David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics. Two books based on the series have been published by Oxford University Press. We are currently self-funding - donations very welcome via our website http://www.philosophybites.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386"},"episode":{"title":"Robert Talisse on Civic Solitude","slug":"robert-talisse-on-civic-solitude","published_at":"2025-07-30T11:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386/robert-talisse-on-civic-solitude","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386","url":"https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/robert-talisse-on-civic-solitude","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/philosophybites/Robert_Talisse_on_Civic_Solitude.mp3?dest-id=14010","summary":"Democracy is about acting as a group, but, surprisingly, Robert Talisse argues that what it needs to function well is a degree of solitude for citizens. In-group and out-group dynamics mean that individuals become vulnerable to being pushed towards more extreme views than they would otherwise hold. There is, Talisse, maintains, a need to balance times of thinking together with times of thinking alone, at a distance from the fray.","meta_description":"Democracy is about acting as a group, but, surprisingly, Robert Talisse argues that what it needs to function well is a degree of solitude for citizens. I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1062,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/philosophy-bites-894386/episodes/robert-talisse-on-civic-solitude/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386/robert-talisse-on-civic-solitude.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}