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The Great Philosophers

The Great Philosophers is a series of intellectual conversations in which Bryan Magee discusses the major historical figures of Western philosophy with fifteen contemporary philosophers. Consisting of 15 episodes and featuring Bryan Magee, the series covers the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes, among others, ending with a discussion with John Searle on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. And the contemporary philosophers whom Bryan Magee has conversations with include A. J. Ayer, Anthony Kenny, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, and John Searle.

01. Miles Burnyeat on Plato
02. Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
03. Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas
04. Bernard Williams on Descartes
05. Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
06. Michael Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
07. John Passmore on Hume
08. Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
09. Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
10. Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
11. J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
12. Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
13. Sidney Morgenbesser on The American pragmatists: C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey
14. A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
15. John Searle on Wittgenstein

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