As part of the Gower Street Lecture Series organised by Waterstones, OU Senior Lecturer and philosopher Nigel Warburton, author of A Little History of Philosophy and pod-caster for Philosophy Bites will be in conversation with Eva Hoffman, author of Time and Michael Foley author of The Age of Absurdity. They will be discussing that age old Philosophical enquiry, ‘How To Live’ in this modern age of hyper fast technologies and instant communications, and asking: are we happy?
Time: 7pm
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Darwin Building, Malet Place, WC1E 7JG
Tickets: £8 / £5 students, available in-store at the customer order desk or online (follow this link)
About the Author
Nigel Warburton is a philosopher, currently Senior Lecturer at the Open University. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, being author of a number of books of this genre, but he has also written academic works in esthetics and applied ethics. He regularly teaches courses on philosophy and art at Tate Modern and writes a monthly column 'Everyday Philosophy' for Prospect magazine. 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.
About the Book
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood.
This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it. In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times. Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion.
How to Live: The Age of the Internet, with OU Senior Lecturer Nigel Warburton
