This is philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warton.

Philosophy bites is available at W. We all know what maths is we can roughly agree on the demarcation of history or

science geography French or classics but philosophy what is the definition of

philosophy what are its limits?

One man is very well placed to answer that question.

Edward Craig is the retired Nightbridge professor of philosophy at Cambridge University

and the editor of a colossal 10 volume

Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he thinks philosophy has in the past

been far too narrowly defined.

Ebbukrate, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you. I'm glad to be here, Nigel.

And today what I thought of asking about is the question,

what is philosophy?

The question, what is philosophy is a philosophical question it strikes me.

It certainly is and I think my approach to it is that maybe we shouldn't be asking the question quite like that.

When people are asked to define philosophy,

they will often say something very narrow indeed.

Two, I think the great detriment of the subject.

I think it's better to think in terms of there being a huge range of

interesting questions. Then along come various specialized disciplines.

For instance, once the investigation of nature

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