Nigel Warburton, ‘freelance philosopher’ is a man on a mission to bring philosophy to the masses. And he has a lot to show for it.Free thinking and populist - interview with Nigel Warburton (From The Oxford Times)
After writing eight books on the subject, co-editing another six and creating the hugely successful Philosophy Bites podcast with friend and producer David Edmonds, it is fair to say he must be doing something right. The podcast, in particular, has now been downloaded more than 20 million times across the globe and he has sold more than 150,000 English-language copies of his books.
But until recent years these were not things he would ever have seen himself doing, he said. Mr Warburton, now 52, grew up in Kent, and went to Bristol University as an undergraduate in psychology, before a switch to philosophy... (continues)
A collaborative search for wisdom, at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond... "The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'"-William James
Monday, March 31, 2014
An interview with Nigel Warburton
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