Free Thinking - Philosophy: Bryan Magee

This is a late bounce on the radio podcast commented by Claudia. A radio program from BBC Radio 3. The show is called Free Thinking but I have little experience with it apart from this particular podcast I want to share with you. Here you have a very interesting debate on the role Philosophy as a discipline, its life in and outside academia, the possibility of vulgarizing and/or disseminating it, etc. The interviewees (highly accomplish philosophers: MM McCabe, Lucy O'Brian, Nigel Warburton and Constantine Sandis) question whether Philosophy is the History of Philosophy and the incorporation of established philosophical thinking, or the mental engine a philosopher put at work when formulating and discussing any philosophical issue, as well as many other subjects universal or contingent in current times. They even discuss at some point the role of Bryan Magee and his attempts to put Philosophy on prime time TV (BBC).

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