Philosophy Bites BackPhilosophy 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 philosophy and illuminates its most fascinating ideas. Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. It has had over 12 million downloads, and is listened to all over the world. |
Contents
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3 Terence Irwin on Aristotles Ethics | 20 |
4 Anthony Kenny on Thomas Aquinas Ethics | 29 |
5 Quentin Skinner on Niccolò Machiavellis The Prince | 37 |
6 Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne | 51 |
7 A C Grayling on René Descartes Cogito | 61 |
8 Susan James on Baruch de Spinoza on the Passions | 70 |
17 Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mills On Liberty | 156 |
18 Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling | 164 |
19 Aaron Ridley on Friedrich Nietzsche on Art and Truth | 172 |
20 Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwicks Ethics | 182 |
21 Robert B Talisse on The Pragmatists and Truth | 190 |
22 Barry C Smith on Ludwig Wittgenstein | 201 |
23 Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on Truth | 214 |
24 Mary Warnock on JeanPaul Sartres Existentialism | 223 |
9 John Dunn on John Locke on Toleration | 81 |
10 John Campbell on George Berkeleys Puzzle | 89 |
11 Peter Millican on David Humes Significance | 97 |
12 Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Human Beings Are Like | 106 |
13 Melissa Lane on JeanJacques Rousseau on Modern Society | 115 |
14 Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics | 124 |
15 AW Moore on Immanuel Kants Metaphysics | 132 |
16 Robert Stern on G W F Hegel on Dialectic | 143 |
25 Chandran Kukathas on Friedrich Hayek and Liberalism | 230 |
26 Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls on Justice | 238 |
27 Robert Rowland Smith on Jacques Derrida on Forgiveness | 250 |
Notes on Contributors | 259 |
Further Reading | 265 |
Winners of the Twitter Competition | 273 |
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