Following on from the success of the first edition of What Philosophers Think, this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics, including: Bernard Williams - Onora O'Neill - Philippa Foot - Philip Pullman - Bhikhu Parekh - Slavoj ++i++ek - AC Grayling - Igor Alexander - Alexander McCall Smith - Daniel Dennett - Oliver Letwin The interviews - all revised and expanded from The Philosopher's Magazine - cover a wide range of issues and offer a unique insight into the minds behind the great ideas of today. Always lively, provocative and accessible, these interviews get to the heart of today's most vital questions"
Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of
The Philosophers' Magazine (
www.philosophers.co.uk),
Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and
New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of
The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and
What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005).
Jeremy Stangroom is the author of the international bestseller
Einstein’s Riddle and its sequels.
His writing has also appeared in the
Guardian, the
Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere.
He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.