Philosophy bites back / David Edmons & Nigel Warburton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmonds, David.

Contributor:

Warburton, Nigel, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and Derrida, this volume spans over two and a half millennia of western philosophyand illuminates its most fascinating ideas.Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. It has h

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Who is your favourite philosopher?; 1. Mary Margaret McCabe on Socrates and the Socratic Method; 2. Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love; 3. Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics; 4. Anthony Kenny on Thomas Aquinas' Ethics; 5. Quentin Skinner on Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince; 6. Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne; 7. A. C. Grayling on René Descartes' Cogito; 8. Susan James on Baruch de Spinoza on the Passions; 9. John Dunn on John Locke on Toleration; 10. John Campbell on George Berkeley's Puzzle; 11. Peter Millican on David Hume's Significance

12. Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like13. Melissa Lane on Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Modern Society; 14. Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics; 15. A.W. Moore on Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics; 16. Robert Stern on G. W. F. Hegel on Dialectic; 17. Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty; 18. Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; 19. Aaron Ridley on Friedrich Nietzsche on Art and Truth; 20. Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics; 21. Robert B. Talisse on The Pragmatists and Truth; 22. Barry C. Smith on Ludwig Wittgenstein

23. Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on Truth24. Mary Warnock on Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism; 25. Chandran Kukathas on Friedrich Hayek and Liberalism; 26. Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls on Justice; 27. Robert Rowland Smith on Jacques Derrida on Forgiveness; Notes on Contributors; Further Reading; Winners of the Twitter Competition

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical reference.

ISBN:

0-19-165539-2

1-283-73308-0

0-19-165538-4

OCLC:

818851607