''Philosophy Bites'' is a
podcast
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series featuring
philosophers
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
being interviewed for 15–20 minutes on a specific topic. The series, which has been running since 2007, is hosted by
Nigel Warburton
Nigel Warburton (; born 1962) is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of books in the genre, but he has also written academic works in aesthetics and applied ethics.
Education
Warburton r ...
, freelance lecturer, and
David Edmonds, and has featured interviews with guests including
Barry C. Smith,
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his effort ...
,
A. C. Grayling,
Martha Nussbaum,
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a Secularit ...
,
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He w ...
,
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (; ; bg, Цветан Тодоров; 1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, whi ...
,
David Chalmers
David John Chalmers (; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York Univers ...
, 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.
Books
Several of the episodes have been transcribed and compiled into three books, all published by Oxford University Press:
*''Philosophy Bites'' (2010), features 25 of the series' best interviews.
*''Philosophy Bites Back'' (2012), has 27 philosophers discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history.
*''Philosophy Bites Again'' (2014), another selection of 27 interviews.
References
2007 podcast debuts
Audio podcasts
Philosophy podcasts
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British podcasts