From popular introductions to biographies and television programmes, philosophy is everywhere. Many people even want to be philosophers, usually in the café or the pub. But what do real philosophers do? What are the big philosophical issues of today? Why do they matter? How did some our best philosophers get into philosophy in the first place?
Read New British Philosophy and find out for the first time. Clear, engaging and designed for a general audience, sixteen fascinating interviews with some of the top philosophers from the new generation of the subject's leaders range from music to the mind and feminism to the future of philosophy.
Each interview is introduced and conducted by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom of The Philosophers Magazine. This is a unique snapshot of philosophy in Great Britain today and includes interviews with:
Ray Monk - Biography; Nigel Warburton - the Public; Aaron Ridley - Music; Jonathan Wolff - Politics; Roger Crisp - Ethics; Rae Langton - Pornography; Miranda Fricker - Knowledge; M.G.F.Martin - Perception; Timothy Williamson - Vagueness; Tim Crane - Mind; Robin Le Poidevin - Metaphysics; Christina Howells - Sartre; Simon Critchley - Phenomenology; Simon Glendinning - Continental; Stephen Mulhall - the Future; Keith Ansell Pearson - the Human.
| The Philosophers | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Philosophical Biography | 9 |
| 2 | Ethics in the Modern World | 27 |
| 3 | The Role of Political Philosophy | 43 |
| 4 | Aesthetics and Music | 59 |
| 5 | Power, Knowledge and Injustice | 77 |
| 6 | Feminism and Pornography | 95 |
| 7 | Mind Matters | 113 |
| 8 | The Concerns of Analytic Philosophy | 129 |
| 9 | On Vagueness | 147 |
| 10 | The Rebirth of Metaphysics | 165 |
| 11 | Continental Philosophy and Emancipation | 183 |
| 12 | The Analytic and the Continental | 201 |
| 13 | Sartre's Existentialism | 219 |
| 14 | Post-Analytic Philosophy | 237 |
| 15 | A Post-Human Hell | 253 |
| 16 | Philosophy and the Public | 271 |
| App | Rationale and Purpose | 287 |
| Further Reading | 293 | |
| Index | 295 |
Overview
From popular introductions to biographies and television programmes, philosophy is everywhere. Many people even want to be philosophers, usually in the café or the pub. But what do real philosophers do? What are the big philosophical issues of today? Why do they matter? How did some our best philosophers get into philosophy in the first place?
Read New British Philosophy and find out for the first time. Clear, engaging and designed for a general audience, sixteen fascinating ...