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Nigel and I have met many brilliant philosophers

since launching philosophy bites. Over the past couple of years

we've sprung a question on our interviewees. Who is the most impressive philosopher they've met?

Here are their answers. Hi this is Tim Bain, professor of

philosophy at the University of Manchester. Tim Bain, who's the most impressive

philosopher you've ever met? Philosophy that's been most impressive who have met and who has certainly had the greatest

impact on my development is my PhD supervisor David Chalmers.

He has a wonderful ability to come into a debate and see the

conceptual structure of that debate and to present it extremely clearly so one has

the sense immediately on reading his work of what's going on and that's just

a wonderful ability and very impressive.

Hi I'm Chris Bircham, I'm professor of social and political philosophy at the University of Bristol.

Chris, I wonder if you could tell me who's the most impressive philosopher you've

ever met and why? The most impressive philosopher I've ever met was certainly the late

Jerry Cohen. So Jerry had an amazingly crisp analytic mind. He was very insightful as a political philosopher and also he

was one of the most amazingly funny people I've ever met. I'm Simon Blackburn. I'm the retired

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