Blogs Posts on "History Of Philosophy"

Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths by Philosophy Bites on Sep 25, 2009Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for many things, including the idea of the Übermensch, The Will to Power and his sceptical beliefs about truth that make him a precursor of much postmodern thinking. But according to Nietzsche expert Brian Leiter (the..

Ben Rogers on Pascal's Pensées by Philosophy Bites on Jul 29, 2009Blaise Pascal's Pensées is renowned as a great book. Yet few philosophers know much more about it than that it contains Pascal's famous 'Wager' in which he purports to demonstrate that a rational agnostic should gamble on God's existence. Here...

Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith by Philosophy Bites on Feb 20, 2009Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is sometimes described as the bible of existentialism. At its core is the notion of Bad Faith. For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Sebastian Gardner, author of a recent book about Being and...

Dead Philosophers by Thoughts and Things on Feb 14, 2009I like reading philosophy and biographies about philosophers. So yesterday as I was reading the New York Times Book section (online), I came across a cool book entitled The Book of Dead Philosophers. Such philosophers include, for example, Thal.

Raymond Tallis on Parmenides by Philosophy Bites on Dec 7, 2008Parmenides was possibly the greatest of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Raymond Tallis, author of a recent book on this philosopher, The Enduring Significance of Parmenides, discusses his ideas and influences with Nigel Warburton in this episode of th...

Raymond Geuss on Real Politics by Philosophy Bites on Oct 19, 2008Raymond Geuss wants political philosophers to focus on real politics. In this interview for Philosophy Bites he explains why he believes philosophers such as Robert Nozick and John Rawls were fundamentally misguided in the way they approached politic...

Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality by Philosophy Bites on Sep 28, 2008Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality presents a highly original account of the sources of our values. Christopher Janaway, author of Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy, discusses Nietzsche's influential book in th

Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics by Philosophy Bites on Sep 14, 2008Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is a great but difficult work. In this interview for Philosophy Bites A.W. Moore gives an accessible account of the main themes of the book and explains what might have been motivating Kant's approach...