Men of Ideas: Bryan Magee's Conversations with Philosophers

The program Men of Ideas, Bryan Magee's conversations with the world's great philosophers, was broadcast on the BBC from 1978 to 1987 in two fifteen-episode seasons (30 episodes in total). Later, the transcripts of all these programs were published in two books (Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers) and (The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy). Sixteen of these episodes have also been translated into Persian by Ezzatollah Fooladvand in the book (Men of Ideas: The Creators of Contemporary Philosophy). Below, you can download the audio and video files of this program:

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Video and Audio Files of 12 Programs (Dubbed by IRIB)

Subject: The Social Context of Philosophy Bryan Magee in conversation with Ernest Gellner

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Subject: Philosophy and Literature Bryan Magee in conversation with Iris Murdoch

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. Subject: Marxism Bryan Magee in conversation with Charles Taylor

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Subject: Philosophy of Science Bryan Magee in conversation with Hilary Putnam

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Subject: The Frankfurt School Bryan Magee in conversation with Herbert Marcuse

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Subject: The Philosophy of Heidegger Bryan Magee in conversation with William Barrett

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Subject: Logical Positivism and Its Legacy Bryan Magee in conversation with A. J. Ayer

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Subject: The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Bryan Magee in conversation with Anthony Quinton

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Subject: What is Philosophy? Bryan Magee in conversation with Isaiah Berlin

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Subject: The Philosophy of Linguistic Analysis Bryan Magee in conversation with Bernard Williams

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Subject: Moral Philosophy Bryan Magee in conversation with R. M. Hare

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Subject: Philosophy and Politics Bryan Magee in conversation with Ronald Dworkin

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Video files for 25 programs (English with English subtitles)

1_ The Philosophy of Spinoza & Leibniz     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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2_ Hegel & Marx - Peter Singer & Bryan Magee     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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3_ Philosophy of Science with Hilary Putnam     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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4_ Locke & Berkeley's Empiricism     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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5_ Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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6_ Ludwig Wittgenstein - John Searle & Bryan Magee     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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7_ Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism - Hubert Dreyfus     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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8_ Aristotle - Martha Nussbaum     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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9_ Noam Chomsky Interview on Limits of Language & Mind     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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10_ René Descartes - Bernard Williams     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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11_ Heidegger & Modern Existentialism     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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12_ Medieval Philosophy - Anthony Kenny & Bryan Magee     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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13_ The Philosophy of Language with John Searle     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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14_ Plato - Myles Burnyeat     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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15_ David Hume - John Passmore & Bryan Magee     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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16_ The Life & Work of Immanuel Kant     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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17_ The Frankfurt School with Herbert Marcuse     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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18_ Friedrich Nietzsche - J. P. Stern     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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19_ The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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20_ A. J. Ayer on Logical Positivism & Its Legacy     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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21_ Frege, Russell, & Modern Logic - A. J. Ayer     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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22_ American Pragmatism     watch on youtube | download | subtitle

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23_ Interview with Quine - Bryan Magee (1978)     watch on youtube |download | subtitle

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24_ Linguistic Philosophy - Bernard Williams     watch on youtube |download | subtitle

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25_ Isaiah Berlin interview on Why Philosophy Matters (1976)     watch on youtube |download | subtitle

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Audio files for all 30 programs (English)

First Series of Interviews (1978)

1_ Isaiah Berlin on “Introduction to Philosophy”

2_ Charles Taylor (Magee interview not available; substituting recent lecture)

3_ Herbert Marcuse on “Frankfurt School”

4_ William Barrett on “Martin Heidegger“

5_ Anthony Quinton on “Wittgenstein”

6_ A. J. Ayer on “Logical Positivism”

7_ Bernard Williams on “Linguistic Philosophy”

8_ R. M. Hare (Magee interview not available; substituting only interview I found online)

9_ Willard Van Orman Quine on “Quine”

10_ John Searle on “Philosophy of Language”

11_ Noam Chomsky on “Chomsky”

12_ Hilary Putnam on “Philosophy of Science”

13_ Ronald Dworkin on “Political Philosophy”

14_ Iris Murdoch on “Philosophy and Literature”

15_ Ernest Gellner on “Philosophy: The Social Context”

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Second Series of Interviews (1987)

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

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