What More Philosophers Think

2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9300-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

The editors of The Philosopher’s Magazine bring you a wonderful new collection of interviews covering a wide range of issues and a unique insight into the minds behind the great ideas of today.

The first edition of What Philosophers Think has sold extraordinarily well

This second edition of What Philosophers Think includes interviews with some of today's most important and influential philosophers, as well as well-known figures in the arts and politics.

Following on from the success of the first edition of What Philosophers Think, this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics, including:

Bernard Williams - Onora O'Neill - Philippa Foot - Philip Pullman - Bhikhu Parekh - Slavoj Zizek - AC Grayling - Igor Alexander - Alexander McCall Smith - Daniel Dennett - Oliver Letwin

The interviews - all revised and expanded from The Philosopher's Magazine - cover a wide range of issues and offer a unique insight into the minds behind the great ideas of today. Always lively, provocative and accessible, these interviews get to the heart of today's most vital questions.

Zielgruppe

Academics, General, Introductory Undergraduate, Libraries, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baggini, Julian

Stangroom, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Oliver Letwin - On politics and philosophy
Roundtable - On September 11
Roundtable - On security and 'the war on terror'
Ted Honderich - On terrorism and punishment
Bhikhu Parekh - On multiculturalism
Slavoj Žižek - On multiculturalism, pluralism and tolerance
Onora O’Neill - On trust and autonomy
Anthony Grayling - On philosophy and public understanding
Mary Warnock - On making babies
Philippa Foot - On goodness
The Soho Symposium - On love
Bernard Williams - On truth and truthfulness
Robert M Pirsig - On the Metaphysics of Quality
Alexander McCall Smith - On philosophy and the novel
Philip Pullman - On writing for children
Igor Aleksander - On artificial intelligence

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophers.co.uk), Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005).

Jeremy Stangroom is co-editor (with Julian Baggini) of The Philosophers' Magazine and the successful philosophy books, What Philosophers Think and Great Thinkers A-Z. He and Ophelia Benson are editors of www.butterfliesandwheels.com.