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Conversations with Philosophers

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11: Richard Wollheim. Professor of Philosophy at University College, London, and also a novelist and book critic, talks to BRYAN MAGEE about the relation of contemporary philosophy to the arts.
Professor Wollheim shows aesthetics as at last breaking free of the two questions - ' What is art?' and ' What does it mean to say that something is beautiful? ' - which for so long have limited its enquiries, (23 Sept: Alasdair Maclntyre )

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Richard Wollheim.
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Bryan Magee
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Alasdair MacLntyre
Source: Radio Times

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