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 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.


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  1. ^ Faculty of Arts: Department of Philosophy (HTML). Open University. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  2. ^ Nigel Warburton CV at PFD (HTML). PFD Group Ltd. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  • Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (eds) New British Philosophy, Routledge 2002, ISBN 0415243467
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