To celebrate the publication of our second Philosophy Bites book, Philosophy Bites Back, authors Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds have released a 39 minute podcast episode of a wide range of philosophers answering the question ‘Who’s Your Favourite Philosopher?’
Listen to Who’s Your Favourite Philosopher?
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Twitter Competition
We’d like to hear who is your favourite philosopher. Pick your favourite philosopher and let us know why in a tweet (140 characters or fewer), incorporating the hashtag #philosophybites. We’ll be monitoring your suggestions from @oupacademic and @philosophybites. The competition closes on 10 January 2013 and our top five entrants will receive a copy of Philosophy Bites Back. The winning entries and a selection of shortlisted tweets will be posted to OUPblog in January 2013, and may well also appear in the next book in the Philosophy Bites series. To get you started, here are a few ideas:
TIM CRANE: Descartes. Not because what I think what he said was true, but because he was incredibly clear in his vision of things.
ALAIN DE BOTTON: Nietzsche has a fascinating metaphysical structure to his thought, writes beautifully, and has a sense of humour.
RAYMOND GEUSS: Thucydides. My favourite philosopher because nobody else thinks he’s a philosopher, but I think he is.
BRIAN LEITER: Oh Fred. Nietzsche. I call him Fred. Because he’s a great writer, and he’s more right than wrong about most of the things he has views on.
GALEN STRAWSON: Kant. Every time I hear the words the Critique of Pure Reason I involuntarily salivate.
Good luck!
David Edmonds is an award-winning documentary maker for the BBC World Service and a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University. Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. They are co-authors of Philosophy Bites (OUP, 2010) and Philosophy Bites Back (OUP, 2012), which are based on their highly successful series of podcasts. You can also follow @philosophybites on Twitter.
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All of the philosophers are only relevant in their own time.
As we discover change we have to adapt our philosophy
All are valuable, however we can not credit one with preference
One wonders what it would be like to voluntarily salivate…
Heidegger! Develops the question of being that no one else could.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – because he whistled, gave away his fortune, was a possibility for third man and made me think a lot about private language.
Socrates. He kicked The Establishment in the gonads.
Bertrand Russell: he introduced so many people to philosophy.
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