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Philosophy Bites
Overview
Philosophy Bites is a podcast series featuring philosophers being interviewed for 15–20 minutes on a specific topic. The series, which has been running since 2007, is hosted by Nigel Warburton, freelance lecturer, and David Edmonds, and has featured interviews with guests including Barry C. Smith, Simon Blackburn, A. C. Grayling, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Dummett, Tzvetan Todorov, David Chalmers, and C. A. J. Coady. The podcast has been one of the top 20 most downloaded series in the United States and has over 34 million downloads.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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Similarly, the study of the human mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been separated from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
States what Philosophy Bites is.
As to this reflection, the next thing to be said of it is that however different the philosophies have been, they had a common bond in that they were Philosophy. Thus whoever may have studied or become acquainted with a philosophy, of whatever kind, provided only that it is such, has thereby become acquainted with Philosophy. That delusive mode of reasoning which regards diversity alone, and from doubt of or…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Philosophy Bites; the term itself is not named.
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. Ever since Thales said that all is water, philosophers have been ready with glib assertions about the sum-total of things; and equally glib denials have come from other philosophers ever since Thales was contradicted…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Philosophy Bites; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Philosophy Bites
- Alexius Meinong
- Patricia Churchland
- Will Kymlicka
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Miranda Fricker
- David Edmonds (philosopher)
- Robert B. Talisse
Related ideas
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Nigel Warburton
- Philosophy
- Peter Singer
- David Chalmers
- Michael Dummett
- Martha Nussbaum
- Simon Blackburn
- English language
- Tzvetan Todorov
- David Edmonds (philosopher)
Place in the tradition
Part of Mind–body dualism.