The Popperian Podcast #11 – David Edmonds – 'Wittgenstein's Poker'
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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David's book Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. Blurb: "On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement."
David Edmonds is a multi-award winning presenter/producer at the BBC and the host of The Big Idea. He is the author of many books, including Would You Kill the Fat Man? and (with John Eidinow) the international best-seller Wittgenstein's Poker. His latest book (co-written with Hugh Fraser), is a children's book Undercover Robot. He's a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle. With Nigel Warburton he produces the popular podcast series Philosophy Bites which has had over 40 million downloads. He also runs Philososphy247 and presents Social Science Bites.
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