The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年10月10日
Bryan Magee and Anthony Quinton discuss the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This interview is from a 1978 BBC program. Subtitles/transcript are available.

Ludwig Wittgenstein with John Searle (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年2月26日
John Searle and Bryan Magee discuss Ludwig Wittgenstein and his philosophical work, from the Tracatus to the Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein was a famous Austrian-British philosopher of the early 20th century who worked primarily in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/
Subtitles/transcript have now been added.
This interview is from a 1987 BBC program.

Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年2月20日
Frederick Copleston and Bryan Magee discuss the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer is perhaps most famous for his extreme pessimism. Seeing the world as something horrific and bleak, he urged that we turn against it. Following Immanuel Kant, he took space, time, and causality to be categories of the mind through which we interpret and make sense of things. However, in contrast to Kant, Schopenhauer argued that reality must ultimately be "One", and he used this Monism to ground his ethical views regarding values. He also argued that "will" or "energy" was fundamental in the physical world. Schopenhauer was remarkable for many things, including being the only major Western philosopher to draw serious and interesting parallels between Western and Eastern thought. He was also the first major philosopher to openly identify as an atheist. He had a significant influence on thinkers like Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Freud, especially regarding his notion of the will and the unconscious. And he also had an impact on many artists and musicians, like Wagner. The arts were particularly important for Schopenhauer not only because they give us a glimpse into the underlying reality, but because they help us to escape the inherent suffering and meaningless absurdity of existence.
This interview is from a 1987 BBC program. I think it's one of the best.
Transcript/subtitles are available.

Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science (1977)

source: mehranshargh    2015年11月4日
In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam of Harvard examine current philosophical thought that dismisses the primacy and infallibility of mathematical logic and the scientific method. Modern thinkers, such as Einstein, are credited with introducing interpretive logic into their scientific theories.

Immanuel Kant (Transcript/Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年7月23日
Bryan Magee and Geoffrey Warnock discuss the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who is considered the central figure in modern philosophy. Kant synthesized early rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of 19th and 20th century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields. Kant is perhaps most famous his distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves. This was the idea that we can only know things as they appear to us through our sensory and mental faculties, not how they are in themselves independent of us and our mental apparatus. This allowed him to account for synthetic a priori knowledge, truths which are necessary and yet still are substantial and informative. He is also famous for deontology in moral philosophy, especially the categorical imperative and that reason is the source of morality, as well as for his view that aesthetics is based on a faculty of disinterested judgment.
This interview was part of a BBC program from 1987. The quality is kind of shitty, but the audio and video should stay in sync at least. I didn't think I'd be putting so many of these Bryan Magee interviews up, especially since they're already on Youtube, but they're just so good I can't resist.