
Bryan Magee traces the history of western philosophy over two millennia, discussing the ideas of the past with an expert guest or contemporary philosopher.
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Air Date: 1987-09-06
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ...
Air Date: 1987-09-13
In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University pr...
Air Date: 1987-09-20
This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medi...
Air Date: 1987-10-04
I think, therefore I am. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician René Decartes, considered the father of modern phi...
Air Date: 1987-10-11
The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy...
Air Date: 1987-10-18
This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Aye...
Air Date: 1987-10-25
The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John...
Air Date: 1987-11-01
Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view tha...
Air Date: 1987-11-08
In this program, contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discusses rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism an...
Air Date: 1987-11-22
This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on infraconscio...
Air Date: 1987-11-29
Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "s...
Air Date: 1987-12-06
In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, w...
Air Date: 1987-12-13
C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey In this program, Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discusses t...
Air Date: 1987-12-20
Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and...
Air Date: 1987-12-27
Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus,...