Nigel Warburton

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Nigel Warburton (born 1962) is Senior Lecturer (0.8 time) at the Open University and author of a number of popular books about philosophy.

Warburton received a BA from the University of Bristol and a PhD from Darwin College, Cambridge and was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham before joining the Department of Philosophy at the Open University in 1994.^[1]

He is author of a number of introductory Philosophy books including the bestselling Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.), Philosophy: The Classics (3rd ed.) and Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.), Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide, and The Art Question; he also edited Philosophy: Basic Readings, second edition and is co-author of Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill. He has written extensively about photography, particularly about Bill Brandt, and wrote a biography of the modernist architect Ernö Goldfinger.^[2] He regularly teaches courses on philosophy and art at Tate Modern and writes for the photographic magazine Portfolio.

He runs a popular philosophy weblog Virtual Philosopher and with David Edmonds regularly podcasts interviews with top philosophers on a range of subjects at Philosophy Bites. He also podcasts chapters from his book Philosophy: The Classics.

[edit] Selected books

• Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.) ISBN 978-0415327732
• Philosophy: The Classics (3rd ed.)ISBN 978-0415356299
• Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.) ISBN 978-0415433716
• The Art Question
• Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of An Architect
• Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming Feb. 2009) ISBN 978-0199232352

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Philosophy Bites podcast
• Ethics Bites podcast
• Virtual Philosopher weblog
• Art and Allusion weblog
• Free Speech weblog
• Interview with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about Podcasting on Oxonians Podcast

[edit] References

1. ^ "Faculty of Arts: Department of Philosophy" (HTML). Open University. http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/philos/warburton.htm. Retrieved on 2007-09-04. 
2. ^ "Nigel Warburton CV at PFD" (HTML). PFD Group Ltd. http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/warburtn/b-aut.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-04. 

• Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (eds) New British Philosophy, Routledge 2002, ISBN 0415243467