Who is the most impressive philosopher you've met? A compilation.

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  Nigel and I have met many brilliant philosophers since launching philosophy bytes over the past couple of years.

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  We've sprung a question on our interviewees.

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  Who is the most impressive philosopher they've met?

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  Here are their answers.

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  Hi, this is Tim Bain.

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  I'm a professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester.

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  Tim Bain, who's the most impressive philosopher you've ever met?

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  Philosopher that's been most impressive.

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  Who I've met and who has certainly had the greatest impact on my development is my PhD supervisor, David Chalmers.

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  He has a wonderful ability to come into a debate and see the conceptual structure of that debate and to present it extremely clearly.

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  So one has the sense immediately on reading his work of what's going on.

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  And that's just a wonderful ability and very impressive.

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  Hi, I'm Chris Bertram.

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  I'm professor of social and political philosophy at the University of Bristol.

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  Chris, I wonder if you could tell me who's the most impressive philosopher you've ever met and why.

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  The most impressive philosopher I've ever met was certainly the late Jerry Cohen.

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  So Jerry had an amazingly crisp analytic mind.

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