2| The History of Philosophy: its value and limitations- with David Bather Woods

Update: 2020-06-18

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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.

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