Talking philosophy
Subtitle: dialogues with fifteen leading philosophers
By: Bryan Magee.
Contributors: Magee, Bryan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780192854179
Subjects: Philosophers, Modern -- Interviews; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Based on a highly successful BBC television series, this book presents fifteen dialogues between author and broadcaster Bryan Magee and some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Isaiah Berlin considers the fundamental question, "What is philosophy?," A.J. Ayer reviews logical positivism, and Iris Murdoch talks about the relation between philosophy and literature. Moral philosophy, political philosophy, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science are all treated in depth by the thinkers who have shaped these fields--including Noam Chomsky, W.V.O. Quine, and Herbert Marcuse. Written in an informal, conversational style, even the most difficult philosophical ideas are made accessible to the general reader.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-272) and index.
Rev. ed. of: Men of ideas. 1978.
"Derives from a series of fifteen television programmes ... screened by the BBC in January-April 1978"--P. vii.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to philosophy : dialogue with Isaiah Berlin; title: Marxist philosophy : dialogue with Charles Taylor; title: Marcuse and the Frankfurt school : dialogue with Herbert Marcuse; title: Heidegger and modern existentialism : dialogue with William Barrett; title: The two philosophies of Wittgenstein : dialogue with Anthony Quinton; title: Logical positivism and its legacy : dialogue with A.J. Ayer; title: The spell of linguistic philosophy : dialogue with Bernard Williams; title: Moral philosophy : dialogue with R.M. Hare; title: The ideas of Quine : dialogue with W.V. Quine; title: The philosophy of language : dialogue with John Searle; title: The ideas of Chomsky : dialogue with Noam Chomsky; title: The philosophy of science : dialogue with Hilary Putnam; title: Philosophy and politics : dialogue with Ronald Dworkin; title: Philosophy and literature : dialogue with Iris Murdoch; title: Philosophy : the social context : dialogue with Ernest Gellner