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It affords many valuable insights into ethical issues. (Western Daily Press, 27.11.10 )
As introductions to philosophy go, these bite-size dialogues add up to a surprisingly substantial whole. (Publishers Weekly )
This thoughtful and highly readable collection of conversations with philosophers...displays an admirable grasp of a variety of issues. (Publishers Weekly )
As introductions to philosophy go, these bite-size dialogues add up to a surprisingly substantial whole. (Publishers Weekly )
This thoughtful and highly readable collection of conversations with philosophers...displays an admirable grasp of a variety of issues. (Publishers Weekly )
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Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, sport, tragedy - all human life is here. Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. It has, to date, had 7 million downloads, and is listened to all over the world.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a brilliant documented composition of 25 philosophers on 25 incredibly diverse topics from ethics to metaphysics to aesthetics. This is lively, engaging and a dash-highbrow! The whole gamut of life ranging from infinity, evil, friendship, animals, tragedy and wine is covered here... from their brilliant podcasts and all their illuminating conversations are recorded in print for the first time...... This is the fruit of three years labours, where David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton have challenged some of the world's leading philosophers in over a hundred conversations and their accompanying success of seven-million downloads!
These bite-sized interviews reveal, often the most brilliant philosophers are eager and able to convey their thoughts, simply and clearly, on the great ideas of philosophy. Engaging, personal, and illuminating material! Uniquely brilliant!
These bite-sized interviews reveal, often the most brilliant philosophers are eager and able to convey their thoughts, simply and clearly, on the great ideas of philosophy. Engaging, personal, and illuminating material! Uniquely brilliant!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton have now carried out well over a hundred audio podcast interviews with philosophers. This remarkable series has now attracted more than eight million hits, demonstrating the potential popularity of philosophy when made available in an accessible form. This selection of twenty-five of those interviews in written form demonstrates just why the series has been so successful.
The volume is intelligently arranged. It begins with the struggling attempts of the interviewees to answer the question, 'What is Philosophy?'. Perhaps their difficulties were related to the range of topics and approaches covered by the subject area, as the main part of the book then illustrates. Divided into the five broad categories, 'Ethics', 'Politics', 'Metaphysics and Mind', 'Aesthetics' and 'God, Atheism and the Meaning of Life', each interview in each section provides food for thought. Of course, much of the credit for this goes to the interviewees, most of whom express their ideas with admirable clarity. But at least as much goes to Edmonds and Warburton, both philosophers themselves. Because thy understand the field so well, the questions go straight to the point, probing the respondents to define the essence of their distinctive arguments.
Readers are bound to have their own favourites and it is invidious to choose, but I found the following particularly engaging: Michael Sandel on Sport and Enhancement, Miranda Fricker on Credibility and Discrimination, Tim Crane on Mind and Body, Alain de Botton on the Aesthetics of Architecture, and Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God. But the whole book is an excellent read and I look forward to the next volume.
The volume is intelligently arranged. It begins with the struggling attempts of the interviewees to answer the question, 'What is Philosophy?'. Perhaps their difficulties were related to the range of topics and approaches covered by the subject area, as the main part of the book then illustrates. Divided into the five broad categories, 'Ethics', 'Politics', 'Metaphysics and Mind', 'Aesthetics' and 'God, Atheism and the Meaning of Life', each interview in each section provides food for thought. Of course, much of the credit for this goes to the interviewees, most of whom express their ideas with admirable clarity. But at least as much goes to Edmonds and Warburton, both philosophers themselves. Because thy understand the field so well, the questions go straight to the point, probing the respondents to define the essence of their distinctive arguments.
Readers are bound to have their own favourites and it is invidious to choose, but I found the following particularly engaging: Michael Sandel on Sport and Enhancement, Miranda Fricker on Credibility and Discrimination, Tim Crane on Mind and Body, Alain de Botton on the Aesthetics of Architecture, and Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God. But the whole book is an excellent read and I look forward to the next volume.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Uneven; 3.5 Stars
14 May 2011
Format:Hardcover
This book has a promising pedigree. One of its compilers, Nigel Warburton, is the author of two excellent, introductory short books to philosophy - Philosophy; The Basics and Philosophy; The Classics. Philosophy Bites is a set of transcripts of podcast short interviews with well known philosophers on a variety of topics. The book is designed to introduce interesting philosophy topics to the inexperienced. I found the quality of topics and interviews uneven. Some, like David Papineau's interview on realism, were quite good. Several others are less useful. Some of the traditional topics, like philosophy of religion topics, are perhaps over-represented. Interviews dealing with more currect issues would have been welcome.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
As good as the podcast
21 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover
I had listened to the Philosophy Bites podcast prior to buying this book. This book is excellent companion to the podcast since it offers many of the transcripts from the best interviews of Philosophy Bites dealing with many different topics from different areas of philosophy like, ethics and aesthetics. It also has a well-written introduction and a very interesting section where different philosophers answer the deceptively hard question "What is Philosophy?" I would recommend for anyone interested in philosophy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Intriguing for this non-philosopher
9 Aug 2011
Format:Hardcover
I am not generally a fan of philosophy, but I was drawn to this book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This are based on a podcast of interviews with philosophers, and presents transcripts of 25 of them. I found them almost all lucid and interesting, even if I wasn't always in agreement; some of them quite gripping. I hesitate to criticize any, since other people may be very interested in topics that I don't care for. The one question that I wished that the interviewer had asked is to question why Don Cupitt remains a Christian priest, given his beliefs, or lack of them. Another book by a philosopher that I greatly enjoyed was Daniel Dennett's DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE
For those wanting more information, I append the contents:
Introduction
What is Philosophy?
ETHICS
1. Julian Savulescu on 'Yuk!'
2. Simon Blackburn on Relativism
3. Peter Singer on Animals
4. Michael Sandel on Sport and Enhancement
5. Alexander Nehama on Friendship
POLITICS
6. Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
7. Miranda Fricker on Credibility and Discrimination
8. Anne Philips on Minority Rights
9. Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
10. Wendy Brown on Tolerance
METAPHYSICS AND THE MIND
11. A. W. Moore on Infinity
12. David Papineau on Scientific Realism
13. Barry Stroud on Scepticism
14. Hugh Mellor on Time
15. Tim Crane on Mind and Body
16. Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
AESTHETICS
17. Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
18. Alain de Botton on the Aesthetics of Architecture
19. Barry C. Smith on Wine
20. Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
GOD, ATHEISM, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
21. Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God
22. John Cottingham on the Meaning of Life
23. Stephen Law on the Problem of Evil
24. Keith Ward of Eastern and Western Idealism
25. A.C. Grayling on Atheism
Notes on Contributors
Further Reading
For those wanting more information, I append the contents:
Introduction
What is Philosophy?
ETHICS
1. Julian Savulescu on 'Yuk!'
2. Simon Blackburn on Relativism
3. Peter Singer on Animals
4. Michael Sandel on Sport and Enhancement
5. Alexander Nehama on Friendship
POLITICS
6. Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
7. Miranda Fricker on Credibility and Discrimination
8. Anne Philips on Minority Rights
9. Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
10. Wendy Brown on Tolerance
METAPHYSICS AND THE MIND
11. A. W. Moore on Infinity
12. David Papineau on Scientific Realism
13. Barry Stroud on Scepticism
14. Hugh Mellor on Time
15. Tim Crane on Mind and Body
16. Timothy Williamson on Vagueness
AESTHETICS
17. Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art
18. Alain de Botton on the Aesthetics of Architecture
19. Barry C. Smith on Wine
20. Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
GOD, ATHEISM, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
21. Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God
22. John Cottingham on the Meaning of Life
23. Stephen Law on the Problem of Evil
24. Keith Ward of Eastern and Western Idealism
25. A.C. Grayling on Atheism
Notes on Contributors
Further Reading
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