Foreign thinker

Nigel Warburton

Philosophy and the Promotion of PhilosophyBritishb. 1962

Protecting free speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.

Nigel Warburton

In their times

Open in the Timeline of Thought

Contemporaries1

Thomas Hurkab. 1952

Life and Thought

Nigel Warburton (born 1962) is a British philosopher and one of the best-known popularizers of philosophy in the English-speaking world. Through bestselling introductory books such as *Philosophy: The Basics* and *A Little History of Philosophy*, as well as the popular podcast *Philosophy Bites*, he has made philosophy accessible to general audiences. Warburton has also published academic works in aesthetics, applied ethics, and free speech.