Philosophy bites

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Edmonds and Warburton challenged some of the world's leading philosophers to hold forth on their favorite topics for their podcast, Philosophy bites. The result is a book that give unexpected insights into hot topics spanning ethics, politics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life.

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Full title :Philosophy bites / David Edmonds & Nigel Warburton.

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Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 244 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199576326, 0199576327, 9780199694662, 0199694664
oclc:ocn587229738
LC Classification:B72
Dewey Decimal:109.2

What is philosophy? -- Ethics. Julian Savulescu on 'Yuk!' -- Simon Blackburn on relativism -- Peter Singer on animals -- Michael Sandel on sport and enhancement -- Alexander Nehamas on friendship -- Politics. -- Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism -- Miranda Fricker on credibility and discrimination -- Anne Phillips on multiculturalism -- Will Kymlicka on minority rights -- Wendy Brown on tolerance -- Metaphysics and mind. -- A.W. Moore on infinity -- David Papineau on scientific realism -- Barry Stroud on scepticism -- Hugh Mellor on time -- Tim Crane on mind and body -- Timothy Williamson on vagueness -- Aesthetics. -- Derek Matravers on the definition of art -- Alain de Botton on the aesthetics of architecture -- Barry C. Smith on wine -- Alex Neill on the paradox of tragedy -- God, atheism, and the meaning of life. -- Don Cupitt on non-realism about God -- John Cottingham on the meaning of life -- Stephen Law on the problem of evil -- Keith Ward on Eastern and Western idealism -- A.C. Grayling on atheism.