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For this special lockdown episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast I interviewed my co-podcaster

David Edmonds about his bestseller Wittgenstein's poker which he wrote

with John Idenhall. It's a brilliant book that tells the story of a 10 minute meeting of two great

Viennese philosophers Liddvig Wittgenstein and Carl Popper at the

Cambridge Moral Sciences Club in 1946.

The weird thing is that different people who were there

gave completely contrasting accounts

of the interaction.

But what really happened? David Edmonds, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you very much.

Good to be here.

The topic we're going to discuss is your book,

Vikenstein's poker, which you co-wrote.

I co-wrote it with a friend and an ex-colleague John Eideenauer, yeah.

So I knew about this book and I'd read it before I met you and I was blown away by it.

It's a remarkable book and it had a huge readership.

Could you just briefly say what the main trope is, the main driving force of this book?

Perhaps I should begin by explaining is the main driving force of this book.

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