The Great Philosophers

The Great Philosophers was a 1987 television series presented by Bryan Magee. There were 15 episodes, in each of which Magee interviewed a noted philosopher.

In this series, Magee discussed the major historical figures of Western philosophy with fifteen contemporary philosophers. The series covered the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes, among others, ending with a discussion with John Searle on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Transcripts of The Great Philosophers are available in published form in a book of the same name. The Story of Thought (also published as The Story of Philosophy) also covers the history of Western philosophy.

Guests

1. Myles Burnyeat on Plato
2. Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
3. Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy
4. Bernard Williams on Descartes
5. Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
6. Michael Ayres on Locke and Berkeley
7. John Passmore on Hume
8. Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
9. Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
10. Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
11. J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
12. Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
13. Sidney Morgenbesser on The American Pragmatists
14. A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
15. John Searle on Wittgenstein

See also

• "Men of Ideas", a similar BBC television series presented by Magee in 1978.

External links

• Videos hosted on Youtube