Friday, July 04, 2008

Philosophy Interviews

Wonderful collection of Bryan Magee's highly regarded TV interviews with philosophers is freely available here, and includes:

A.J. Ayer on Logical Positivism
Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science
Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger
J.P. Stern on Nietzsche
John Passmore on Hume
John Searle on Wittgenstein
Michael Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
W.V. Quine on his own ideas, and
Sidney Morgenbesser on the Pragmatists

related: Transcripts of several of these interviews were later compiled in the book The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy