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What More Philosophers Think
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 Žižek - 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.
- GenresPhilosophy
197 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
Julian Baggini
76 books597 followersJulian Baggini is a British philosopher and the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments (2005) and is co-founder and editor of The Philosophers' Magazine. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1996 from University College London for a thesis on the philosophy of personal identity. In addition to his popular philosophy books, Baggini contributes to The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, and the BBC. He has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
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August 24, 2021
My review can be found here:
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"Slavoj Zizek is also always interesting and entertaining in his own right. I feel like interviewing him is more or less just unlocking a cage, and seeing what damage is done to the city while fleetingly throwing whatever escaped some morsels and taking notes of what it does with them."
-B. Kline
--The Beer Thrillers
https://thebeerthrillers.com/2021/05/...
"Slavoj Zizek is also always interesting and entertaining in his own right. I feel like interviewing him is more or less just unlocking a cage, and seeing what damage is done to the city while fleetingly throwing whatever escaped some morsels and taking notes of what it does with them."
-B. Kline
--The Beer Thrillers
August 12, 2015
El quehacer filosófico acompaña a Occidente incluso antes de que la socrática frase “sólo sé que no se nada” se formulara; desde hace milenios, nuevas corrientes, propuestas y visiones han ido soslayando la cosmovisiones de la sociedad occidental. Mas, hoy en día, ¿sabemos cómo está de salud la filosofía? Temas como el darwinismo, el determinismo y el relativismo llevan ya tiempo entre nosotros, pero ¿cuántos hemos escuchado hablar de términos como “antirrealismo”, de propuestas teóricas como la “interpretación no realista de la religión” o la “filosofía del lenguaje”? Estos y muchos otros temas se abordan en “Lo que piensan los filósofos”, un libro que rescata veintidós entrevistas realizadas por Julian Baggini y Jeremy Stangroom en su revista “The Philosophers’ Magazine”.
Lo más interesante de estas conversaciones es el hecho de que no todos los participantes son filósofos, al menos no en un sentido académico: los hay médicos, científicos, teólogos, físicos, incluso zoólogos. No obstante, estos pensadores han llegado a y participan activamente en menesteres filosóficos: nombres como Simon Blackburn, Richar Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson –que tienen una indudable presencia mediática– se unen a otros, como Mary Midgley, Roger Scruton, Alan Sokal y Mary Warnock, todos unas eminencias en sus respectivas áreas de estudio.
El libro compone una obra heterogénea, que abre todo un abanico de posibilidades al lector pues, aunque no se sea un experto en los temas abordados (o ser, como quien esto escribe, un neófito contumaz), la exposición es clara y concisa; resulta, como bien advierten los editores, “un acceso excepcional a las mentes que sustentan las grandes ideas de hoy”.
Lo más interesante de estas conversaciones es el hecho de que no todos los participantes son filósofos, al menos no en un sentido académico: los hay médicos, científicos, teólogos, físicos, incluso zoólogos. No obstante, estos pensadores han llegado a y participan activamente en menesteres filosóficos: nombres como Simon Blackburn, Richar Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson –que tienen una indudable presencia mediática– se unen a otros, como Mary Midgley, Roger Scruton, Alan Sokal y Mary Warnock, todos unas eminencias en sus respectivas áreas de estudio.
El libro compone una obra heterogénea, que abre todo un abanico de posibilidades al lector pues, aunque no se sea un experto en los temas abordados (o ser, como quien esto escribe, un neófito contumaz), la exposición es clara y concisa; resulta, como bien advierten los editores, “un acceso excepcional a las mentes que sustentan las grandes ideas de hoy”.
February 8, 2012
Not a lot of depth, unfortunately, but that might have been expected and even necessary given the aims and scope of this book. The editors assembled interviews with various contemporary philosophers and thinkers, in essence providing an apologetic stance toward (academic) philosophy that is aimed at the general 'intelligent' public (the interviewer makes this more than clear).
On my part, the main reason for reading this was to get some insight into the thoughts of some of the professional philosophers and thinkers that were consulted in the interviews. I was already acquainted with a few of them, such as Žižek and Warnock, and with their idiosyncratic outlooks and stances on particular issues (multiculturalism and the right to have children, respectively). I cannot say that I learned much new about their thoughts from the interviews, or from the interviews in general.
The only reason I give this book two stars rather than one is that at times the brilliance of some (and only some) of the thinkers that were interviewed managed to shine through. It just really wasn't often enough, which is a pity, because the material was certainly there.
On my part, the main reason for reading this was to get some insight into the thoughts of some of the professional philosophers and thinkers that were consulted in the interviews. I was already acquainted with a few of them, such as Žižek and Warnock, and with their idiosyncratic outlooks and stances on particular issues (multiculturalism and the right to have children, respectively). I cannot say that I learned much new about their thoughts from the interviews, or from the interviews in general.
The only reason I give this book two stars rather than one is that at times the brilliance of some (and only some) of the thinkers that were interviewed managed to shine through. It just really wasn't often enough, which is a pity, because the material was certainly there.
August 21, 2012
Could have been so much more. It started off well with what philosophers think of September 11 and the book degrades on every page. The editing of the interviews could have been better too. I find it hard to navigate through.
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