What More Philosophers Think

by Julian Baggini (Editor), Jeremy Stangroom (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441194527
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	05/31/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	422 KB

About the Author

Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophers.co.uk), Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005).
Jeremy Stangroom is co-editor, with Julian Baggini, of The Philosophers' Magazine and co-author of Do You Think What You Think You Think? (Granta, 2006), What Philosophers Think and Great Thinkers A-Z. He and Ophelia Benson are co-authors of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir, 2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Oliver Letwin - On politics and philosophy

Roundtable - On September 11
Roundtable - On security and 'the war on terror'

Ted Honderich - On terrorism and punishment

Bhikhu Parekh - On multiculturalism

Slavoj Žižek - On multiculturalism, pluralism and tolerance

Onora O'Neill - On trust and autonomy

Anthony Grayling - On philosophy and public understanding

Mary Warnock - On making babies

Philippa Foot - On goodness

The Soho Symposium - On love

Bernard Williams - On truth and truthfulness

Robert M Pirsig - On the Metaphysics of Quality

Alexander McCall Smith - On philosophy and the novel

Philip Pullman - On writing for children

Igor Aleksander - On artificial intelligence