Nigel Warburton


Nigel Warburton is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of books in the genre, but he has also written academic works in aesthetics and applied ethics.
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Education

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. In May 2013, he resigned from the position of Senior Lecturer at the Open University.

Career

He is the author of a number of introductory Philosophy books, including the bestselling Philosophy: The Basics, Philosophy: The Classics, and Thinking from A to Z ; he also edited Philosophy: Basic Readings and was the 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 Ernő Goldfinger. He writes a weekly column "Everyday Philosophy" for The New European newspaper.
He runs a 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. He has written for the Guardian newspaper. He is the Philosophy Editor for the literary website FiveBooks.

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