Philosophy Bites

David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton

nigelwarburton@aol.com

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Booking Overview

Philosophy Bites is a platform for Oxford-connected and other leading philosophers to explain big ideas in accessible ways. For PR professionals, it’s a credible venue to reach audiences interested in ethics, political philosophy, and the humanities with scholarly authority.

Metrics

Episodes: 406

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

nigelwarburton@aol.com

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Host

David Edmonds - Affiliated with the Uehiro Centre at Oxford University. Co-host of Philosophy Bites, interviewing philosophers and connecting philosophical work to contemporary questions in an accessible format.

Nigel Warburton - Freelance philosopher and writer. Co-host of Philosophy Bites, interviewing top philosophers across a wide range of topics and translating ideas into clear, listener-friendly discussions.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Academic philosophers (often university faculty, frequently Oxford-affiliated) and/or authors with substantive published work; experts able to explain philosophical concepts clearly for a general but intellectually interested audience.
Required Achievements:  
University professorship or comparable scholarly position, Published books with a public-facing philosophy focus, Recognized contributions to a philosophical subfield (ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, etc.)

Recent Guest Discussions

Monima Chadha - Responsibility Without Selves; Buddhist Philosophy And Moral Responsibility

Carissa Vliz - Prediction, Persuasion, And Self-fulfilling Aspects Of Prophecy

Chike Jeffers - Frederick Douglass And W.e.b. Du Bois; Context And Key Ideas Related To Civil Rights And Pan-africanism

Recent Topics

Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Responsibility, Political Philosophy, Epistemology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Philosophy Bites
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Mattering

June 05, 2026

We are the kind of creature that cares whether or not we matter and how. What follows from this? Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Mattering, discuses this with David Edmonds.

Monima Chadha on Responsibility Without Selves

May 18, 2026

Buddhist philosophy rejects the idea of the self. How then can there be any moral responsibility? Monima Chadha, Professor of Indian Philosophy at Oxford University, explains.  This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations

Carissa Veliz on Prophecy

May 11, 2026

Predictions aren't quite what they seem to be, according to Carissa Véliz, author of the book Prophecy. They often are intended to persuade you of the inevitability of a certain outcome, and may be self-fulfilling to some degree. Yet they look like simple factual claims about what is likely to happen. We need to be far more aware of the role of prediction in our everyday lives, according to Véliz.

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