September 6, 1987 • 43m
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas initial...Read more
September 13, 1987 • 43m
In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University professor Marth...Read more
September 20, 1987 • 43m
This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medieval philosop...Read more
October 4, 1987 • 43m
I think, therefore I am. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician René Decartes, considered the father of modern philosophy, held...Read more
October 11, 1987 • 43m
The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy Anthony Quin...Read more
October 18, 1987 • 43m
This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Ayers of Oxford ...Read more
October 25, 1987 • 41m
The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John Passmore of ...Read more
November 1, 1987 • 42m
Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities ...Read more
November 8, 1987 • 43m
In this program, contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discusses rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism and organicism ...Read more
November 22, 1987 • 42m
This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on infraconsciousness, or wi...Read more
November 29, 1987 • 43m
Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the...Read more
December 6, 1987 • 45m
In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, where people c...Read more
December 13, 1987
C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey In this program, Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discusses the nuances of...Read more
December 20, 1987 • 42m
Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and their impact...Read more
December 27, 1987
Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus, to his posth...Read more