Nigel Warburton (; 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.[Baggini, Julian & Jeremy Stangroom (eds.) New British Philosophy, p. 272. Routledge, 2002. .]
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 (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.
He writes a weekly column "Everyday Philosophy" for
The New European newspaper.
He runs a philosophy weblog Virtual Philosopher
Partial bibliography
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Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.)
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Philosophy: The Classics (4th ed.)
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Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.)
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The Art Question
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Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of An Architect
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Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction
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Philosophy Bites (co-edited with David Edmonds) ; Philosophy Bites. 25 Philosophen sprechen über 25 große Themen (translated by Holger Hanowell), Reclam 2013
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Philosophy Bites Back (co-edited with David Edmonds) ; Auf den Schultern von Riesen. 27 Philosophen sprechen über ihre Lieblingsphilosophen (translated by Holger Hanowell), Reclam 2015
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A Little History of Philosophy
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Hope: A New Beginning (An A. Gąsiewski Biography)
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The Basics of Essay Writing. Routledge, 2006.
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