Season 1 (1978)

An Introduction to Philosophy
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January 19, 1978 • 46m

Bryan Magee—world-renowned author and professor—and Sir Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and biographer of Karl...Read more

Marxist Philosophy
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January 26, 1978 • 46m

Join host Bryan Magee as he engages in an enlightening dialogue with the acclaimed Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. Delve into...Read more

Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
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February 2, 1978 • 46m

In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the late philosopher and radical political theorist Herbert ...Read more

Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
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February 9, 1978 • 47m

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and William Barret of New York University examine the basic theor...Read more

The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
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February 16, 1978 • 49m

Ludwig Wittgenstein developed two linguistic philosophies: one studies language as a way of giving picture-meanings to objects; th...Read more

Logical Positivism and its Legacy
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February 23, 1978 • 40m

In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, A. J. Ayer, who played a major role in introducing logical p...Read more

The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
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March 2, 1978 • 46m

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Bernard Williams of Cambridge University discuss linguistic p...Read more

Moral Philosophy
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March 9, 1978

Discussion with world-renowned philosopher R. M. Hare on moral philosophy.

The Ideas of Quine
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March 16, 1978 • 46m

Willard Van Orman Quine of Harvard stands as one of the modern world’s most eminent philosophers. In this rare interview conducted...Read more

The Philosophy of Language
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March 23, 1978 • 46m

World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Berkeley philosopher of language John Searle discuss the question: "How does l...Read more

The Ideas of Chomsky
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March 30, 1978 • 47m

Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology transformed the nature of linguistics be...Read more

The Philosophy of Science
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April 6, 1978 • 46m

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam of Harvard examine current philosophical though...Read more

Philosophy and Politics
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April 13, 1978 • 46m

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, examine...Read more

Philosophy and Literature
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April 20, 1978 • 47m

The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Mag...Read more

Philosophy: The Social Context
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April 27, 1978 • 46m

World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and London School of Economics professor Ernest Gellner discuss contemporary philo...Read more