Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton (/ˈwɔːrbərtən/; born 1962) 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.^[1]

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.^[2] In May 2013, he resigned from the position of Senior Lecturer at the Open University.^[3]

Career

He is the author of a number of introductory Philosophy books, including the bestselling Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.), Philosophy: The Classics (4th ed.), and Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.); he also edited Philosophy: Basic Readings (2nd ed.) 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.^[4] He writes a weekly column "Everyday Philosophy" for The New European newspaper.

He runs a philosophy weblog Virtual Philosopher^[5] and with David Edmonds regularly podcasts interviews with top philosophers on a range of subjects at Philosophy Bites.^[6] He also podcasts chapters from his book Philosophy: The Classics.^[7] He has written for the Guardian newspaper.^[8] He is the Philosophy Editor for the literary website FiveBooks.^[9]

Partial bibliography

• Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.) ISBN 978-0-415-32773-2
• Philosophy: The Classics (4th ed.) ISBN 978-0-415-53466-6
• Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.) ISBN 978-0-415-43371-6
• The Art Question ISBN 0-415-17490-2
• Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of An Architect
• Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction ISBN 978-0-19-923235-2
• Philosophy Bites (co-edited with David Edmonds) ISBN 978-0-19-957632-6; Philosophy Bites. 25 Philosophen sprechen über 25 große Themen (translated by Holger Hanowell), Reclam 2013
• Philosophy Bites Back (co-edited with David Edmonds) ISBN 978-0-19-969300-9; Auf den Schultern von Riesen. 27 Philosophen sprechen über ihre Lieblingsphilosophen (translated by Holger Hanowell), Reclam 2015
• A Little History of Philosophy ISBN 978-0-300-15208-1
• Hope: A New Beginning (An A. Gąsiewski Biography) ISBN 978-0-19-420696-9
• The Basics of Essay Writing. Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0-415-24000-X, 978-0-415-24000-0