Interviews with Bryan Magee

Je rassemble ici tous les liens vers les entretiens réalisés par Bryan Magee.

Here you can find all the Bryan Magee's interviews I published in Inquiries.

Flame0430, sur YouTube, a eu la bonne idée de publier des entretiens de Bryan Magee avec des philosophes. Grâce lui soit rendue! Sur sa page, vous trouverez d'autres entretiens intéressants: Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky. Espérons qu'il en mettra d'autres!

Thanks to Flame0430, we can watch impressive interviews by Bryan Magee with great Philosophers. In his/her Youtube page, he/she gives access to other interesting videos with Jacques Derrida and Noam Chomsky. We are looking forward to watch what he/she will find next!

Great Philosophers of the Past

American Pragmatists (Dewey, James, Peirce), Sidney Morgenbesser

Frege, Russell and Modern Logic, Sir A J Ayer

Hegel and Marx, Peter Singer

Hume, John Passmore

Kant, Goeffrey Warnock

Locke and Berkeley, Michael Ayers

Logical Positivism, Sir A J Ayer

Nietzsche, J P Stern

Schopenhauer, Father F. Copleston sj

Spinoza et Leibniz, Anthony Quinton

Wittgenstein, John Searle

Wittgenstein, Anthony Quinton



Contemporary Philosophy

John Searle and Philosophy of Language

Hilary Putnam and the Philosophy of Science

Ideas of Quine

Nota Bene:
1) Ce billet a déjà été publié sur Philotropes, le blog de Julien Dutant: Procrastinez intelligemment avec Bryan Magee/ I have already published this post in the weblog of Julien Dutant: Philotropes, at the precited link.
2) Les vidéos avec Bryan Magee et les entretiens avec d'autres philosophes de tradition analytique ont beaucoup circulé sur internet ces dernières semaines:
30 juin 2008: Soul Physics
24 juin 2008: Words and other Things
29 mai 2008: Theorem(e)
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Spinoza and Leibniz, by Anthony Quinton

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre Anthony Quinton et Bryan Magee, à propos de Spinoza et Leibniz.

I invite you to watch an discussion about Spinoza and Leibniz, between Anthony Quinton and Bryan Magee.

The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and philosopher Anthony Quinton. Spinoza favors a pantheistic God who has matter and mind as two attributes, and who is the ultimate substance and explanation of the world. Leibniz sees the real world as consisting of an infinity of things purely spiritual, where everything, including space, is a phenomenon—a by-product of a real world with an infinite array of spiritual centers. Both philosophers construct a world that is very different from what the average person perceives, and both reject Cartesian duality.

References: "Spinoza and Leibniz", "Great Philosophers" Series, a BBC Production, 1987. (46 minutes)


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Hegel and Marx, by Peter Singer

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre Peter Singer et Bryan Magee, à propos de Hegel et de Marx.

I invite you to watch an discussion about Hegel and Marx, between Peter Singer and Bryan Magee.

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discuss rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism and organicism at its root. Hegel’s theories of absolute idealism and of a dialectic emphasize history in their development of a model of reality. His concept of this reality as ultimately spiritual, and of philosophy as organic and constantly changing, is examined. The theories of Karl Marx are discussed as essentially Hegelian, but with a practical, economic spin.

References: "Hegel and Marx", "Great Philosophers" Series, a BBC Production, 1987. (45 minutes)



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Nietzsche, by J P Stern

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre J. P. Stern et Bryan Magee, à propos de F. Nietzsche.

I invite you to watch an discussion about Nietzsche, between J. P. Stern and Bryan Magee.

Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the death of God; and a life-affirming "will to power" are the philosophical legacies of Friedrich Nietzsche. In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Nietzsche philosopher J. P. Stern discuss these concepts as the genesis of existentialism, and as the root philosophies of fascist political movements.

References: "Nietzsche", "Great Philosophers" series, a BBC Production, 1987. (45 minutes.)


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Schopenhauer, by Father F. Copleston sj

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre Frederick Copleston et Bryan Magee, à propos de Schopenhauer.

I invite you to watch an discussion about Schopenhauer, between Frederick Copleston and Bryan Magee.

This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on an infraconsciousness, or will, as the irrational motivating force in human nature. World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and distinguished philosophical historian Frederick Copleston discuss Schopenhauer’s theory of underlying reality as experienced through the inner self. On a larger scale, the concept of will is ultimately defined as energy, which is judged to be central to scientific explanations of what drives the universe.

References: "Schopenhauer", "Great Philosophers" series, a BBC Production, 1987. (46 minutes)



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Kant, by Geoffrey Warnock

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre Geoffrey Warnock et Bryan Magee, à propos de Kant.

I invite you to watch a discussion about Kant, between Geoffrey Warnock and Bryan Magee.

World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discuss the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers within the mind are the key to knowledge, and that all knowledge is appearance. Knowledge, for Kant, is a complex affair, in which knowing is acquired not just through the senses, but through pure concepts of understanding indigenous to the mind. Countering Hume, Kant insists it is the mind, not the senses, which unifies and organizes sensory flow into meaningful definitions of things.

References: "Kant", "Great Philosophers", a BBC Production, 1987. (45 minutes)


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Alma

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la naissance d'Alma, notre deuxième fille. Vous pouvez visionner quelques photographies ici.

I am very proud to announce the birth of Alma, our second daughter. If you want to watch some photographs, please feel free to click here.

Locke and Berkeley, by Michael Ayers

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisuel, en cinq parties, entre l'oxonien Michael Ayers et Bryan Magee, à propos de Locke et Berkeley.

I invite you to watch a discussion about Locke and Berkeley, between Michael Ayers and Bryan Magee.

This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and philosopher Michael Ayers of Oxford interpret Locke’s skeptical theory that all knowledge is sensory and speculative, and that the true nature of the world can never be known, as an attack on Descartes’s theory of innate ideas. Conversely, Berkeley insists that we cannot have sensory knowledge of material substances because they exist only in our mind. Even the laws of nature, Berkeley says, are merely the regularities of our own perceptions or ideas.

References: "Locke and Berkeley", "Great Philosophers", BBC Production, 1987. (46 minutes)


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L. Wittgenstein, by Anthony Quinton

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisé, en cinq parties, entre Anthony Quinton et Bryan Magee sur les deux philosophies linguistiques de L. Wittgenstein.

I invite you yo watch a discussion between Anthony Quinton and Bryan Magee, about L. Wittgenstein.

Ludwig Wittgenstein developed two linguistic philosophies: one studies language as a way of giving picture-meanings to objects; the other studies the ways language is used to create different impressions. In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford professor Anthony Quinton dissect the two philosophies, and discuss their influence on anthropology and sociology.

References: "The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein", "Contemporary Philosophy", a BBC Production, 1976. (49 minutes)


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American Pragmatists, by Sidney Morgenbesser

Vous trouverez ici un entretien télévisé, en cinq parties, entre Sidney Morgenbesser, professeur à Columbia University, et Bryan Magee, à propos de C. S. Pierce, W James et J. Dewey.

I invite to watch a discussion between Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser and Bryan Magee, about the American Pragmatists: C. S. Pierce, W. James and J. Dewey.

In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the nuances of pragmatic philosophy as expressed by three of America’s finest thinkers. Morgenbesser examines Peirce’s theory of meaning and the concept of fallibilism that supports the changing nature of truth. James’s concept of meaning, knowledge, and truth is examined within the context of the usefulness of particular conceptual schemes. The discussion of Dewey focuses on the human quest for warranted beliefs, and his philosophy of education—a bottom-up approach that bases instruction on a child’s real problems and experiences.

References: "The American Pragmatists: C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey", "Great Philosophers", BBC Production, 1987. (43 minutes)


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