Sidney Morgenbesser
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| - | + | '''Sidney Morgenbesser''' (September 22, 1921 – August 1, 2004) was a philosopher and professor at [[Columbia University]]. He wrote little but is remembered by his many influential students for his insightful and witty [[adage|apothegms]]. | |
| - | '''''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. | + | |
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| - | 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. | + | |
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| - | ==Guests== | + | |
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| - | # [[Myles Burnyeat]] on [[Plato]] | + | |
| - | # [[Martha Nussbaum]] on [[Aristotle]] | + | |
| - | # [[Anthony Kenny]] on [[Medieval Philosophy]] | + | |
| - | # [[Bernard Williams]] on [[Descartes]] | + | |
| - | # [[Anthony Quinton]] on [[Spinoza]] and [[Leibniz]] | + | |
| - | # [[Michael Ayres]] on [[John Locke|Locke]] and [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] | + | |
| - | # [[John Passmore]] on [[David Hume|Hume]] | + | |
| - | # [[Geoffrey Warnock]] on [[Kant]] | + | |
| - | # [[Peter Singer]] on [[Hegel]] and [[Marx]] | + | |
| - | # [[Frederick Copleston]] on [[Schopenhauer]] | + | |
| - | # [[J. P. Stern]] on [[Nietzsche]] | + | |
| - | # [[Hubert Dreyfus]] on [[Husserl]], [[Heidegger]] and Modern [[Existentialism]] | + | |
| - | # [[Sidney Morgenbesser]] on The American Pragmatists | + | |
| - | # [[A. J. Ayer]] on [[Frege]], [[Bertrand Russell|Russell]] and Modern Logic | + | |
| - | # [[John Searle]] on [[Wittgenstein]] | + | |
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Sidney Morgenbesser (September 22, 1921 – August 1, 2004) was a philosopher and professor at Columbia University. He wrote little but is remembered by his many influential students for his insightful and witty apothegms.
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