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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Philosophy Bites

I came upon a great blog today - Philosophy Bites - which offers podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics. Here's what the About page has on the authors of the blog ....

David Edmonds is co-author of Wittgenstein's Poker - this focuses on a ten minute argument between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. His other books - also written with John Eidinow - include Bobby Fischer Goes to War (on the notorious chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky) and Rousseau's Dog, which dissects the famous quarrel between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His day job is making radio documentaries for the BBC.

Nigel Warburton has written a number of books including Philosophy: The Basics, Philosophy: The Classics (some of which is available as a podcast) , Thinking from A to Z and The Art Question. He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. He has also made a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4, writes a weblog called Virtual Philosopher and regularly leads courses on the philosophy of art at Tate Modern. His latest book, Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction, will be published in February 2009


They have some great interviews, like Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil and Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy.

A related site is Ethics Bites.


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