Common Room Philosophy

This episode is part two of an interview with Warwick Philosophy's senior teaching fellow David Bather Woods. David has written on Schopenhauer's views on boredom, solitude and loneliness as well as on the intersection of his political and moral philosophy. In this episode we discuss these topics as well as relevant facts and anecdotes from Schopenhauer's life which help to inform our interpretation of these lessons. 

Below are some resources written by David for further reading on the topics contained in this podcast:

https://medium.com/@d88.woods/living-with-the-unliveable-four-lessons-from-schopenhauer-f9e961cc77f4

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09608788.2018.1527755?journalCode=rbjh20

"Schopenhauer on the state and morality" in https://0-link-springer-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-62947-6

Interview conducted and edited by Toby Tremlett.

This episode is part one of an interview with Warwick Philosophy's senior teaching fellow David Bather Woods. David has taught extensively on the history of philosophy as well as researching the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. In this first part of the interview we discuss David’s path into philosophy before moving on to discuss the value of studying the history of philosophy, and how we can address the problem of its lack of diversity.

Interview conducted and edited by Toby Tremlett.

This episode is an interview with Warwick Philosophy's newly appointed teaching fellow Massimiliano Lacertosa. Max is interested in Chinese Philosophy (specifically Daoism) and in this interview we discuss questions such as: How can a course on "Chinese Philosophy" be taught without being too reductive? What is the benefit of approaching Philosophy comparatively? What does "Chinese Philosophy" even mean? If you are a student at Warwick and you were interested to read more about the contents of this episode, have a look at the reading lists for Max's courses below: https://courses.warwick.ac.uk/modules/2020/PH3A6-15 https://courses.warwick.ac.uk/modules/2020/PH150-15 

This interview was conducted and edited by Toby Tremlett.