Nick Willson's philosophy corner

This site is meant as archive incase of any trouble happening to me(Nick W.), as you may or now to know I really can't let my works go into obscurity to be unseen and I will work to change lives of those who long for coherence and stability in scatterness of modernity (2010-2020s and on) where ideas fade onto one another. I propose universal,simplistic yet essential frameworks as that's where if not truth then at least a use lies.

Topics range from reconsturction of societal ideas and political propositions to metaphysical (seems like a buzzword, but that's what it is) systems that are existential tools for betterment of life, as well as look into universe and nothingness as a whole.

All 30 interviews are available on youtube (as of April 2023), which are here converted to mp3 files for convenient listening


First Series of Interviews (1978)

  1. Isaiah Berlin on “Introduction to Philosophy”
  2. Charles Taylor on Marxism
  3. Herbert Marcuse on “Frankfurt School”
  4. William Barrett on “Martin Heidegger“
  5. Anthony Quinton on “Wittgenstein”
  6. A. J. Ayer on “Logical Positivism”
  7. Bernard Williams on “Linguistic Philosophy”
  8. R. M. Hare on "Moral Philosophy"
  9. Willard Van Orman Quine on “Quine”
  10. John Searle on “Philosophy of Language”
  11. Noam Chomsky on “Chomsky”
  12. Hilary Putnam on “Philosophy of Science”
  13. Ronald Dworkin on “Political Philosophy”
  14. Iris Murdoch on “Philosophy and Literature”
  15. Ernest Gellner on “Philosophy: The Social Context”

Transcripts of the first series can be found here


Second Series of Interviews (1987)

  1. Myles Burnyeat on Plato
  2. Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
  3. Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy
  4. Bernard Williams on Descartes
  5. Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
  6. Michael Ayres on Locke and Berkeley
  7. John Passmore on Hume
  8. Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
  9. Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
  10. Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
  11. J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
  12. Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
  13. Sidney Morgenbesser on The American Pragmatists
  14. A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
  15. John Searle on Wittgenstein

Transcripts of the second series can be found here


Welp, for now there is nothing. But wait for things to come!!!

This sites contains MP3 versions of the interviews; video versions can be found on youtube.