The Great Philosophers: [The Next Episode]

OUR CURRENT SERIES

Bryan Magee’s The Great Philosophers (1987) is a series of unparalleled philosophical dialogues. In them, the world’s greatest philosophical interlocutor interrogates the greatest philosophers of his day about the greatest philosophers of all time … in chronological order.

Topics Covered

• Plato, Aristotle, Medieval Philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel and Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism, The American Pragmatists, Frege, Russell and Modern Logic, Wittgenstein

The People Covering Them

• Myles Burnyeat, Martha Nussbaum, Anthony Kenny, Bernard Williams, Anthony Quinton, Michael R. Ayers, John Passmore, Geoffrey Warnock, Peter Singer, Frederick Copleston, J. P. Stern, Hubert Dreyfus, Sidney Morgenbesser, A. J. Ayer, John Searle

The Resulting Awesome Lineup

1. Myles Burnyeat on Plato
2. Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
3. Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy
4. Bernard Williams on Descartes
5. Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
6. Michael R. Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
7. John Passmore on Hume
8. Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
9. Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
10. Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
11. J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
12. Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
13. Sidney Morgenbesser on The American Pragmatists
14. A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
15. John Searle on Wittgenstein

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