Julian Baggini meets the novelist with maths on his mind.
Interviews
Art’s Elite: an Interview with Roger Scruton
Interview by Jeremy Stangroom.
Midgley on Murdoch
Mary Midgley was one of Britain’s most widely-read philosophers. Like her old friend, Iris Murdoch, Midgley fought hard against the orthodoxies of post-war philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this interview she talked to Julian Baggini about both her own and Murdoch’s philosophical and intellectual development.
How the Laws of Physics Still Lie: an interview with Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright believes it is a myth that science is on its way to furnishing us with a theory of everything. Jonathan Walmsley talked to her about how her ideas have developed and about her new book “The Dappled World”.
Is Animal Liberation an Environmental Ethic? An Interview with Dale Jamieson
In 1998 the University of London’s Senate House was the venue for a day of talk and debate on one of the hottest issues of our time – the environment. Here we present highlights from the conference, including this interview with Dale Jamieson on why animal ethics belongs with environmental ethics.
The Skeptic’s Champion: an interview with Robert Carroll
Interview by Julian Baggini
Demystifying Consciousness: an interview with Ned Block
Ned Block is one of the foremost philosophers of mind. In this interview with Neil Manson, Block explains some of the intriguing, sometimes difficult, ideas which characterise his original approach to the subject. His views represent a challenge to those familiar, and unfamiliar, with philosophical problems of consciousness.