The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ...

In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University pr...

This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medi...

I think, therefore I am. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician René Decartes, considered the father of modern phi...

The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy...

This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Aye...

The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John...

Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view tha...

In this program, contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discusses rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism an...

This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on infraconscio...

Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "s...

In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, w...

C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey In this program, Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discusses t...

Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and...

Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus,...