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Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer in philosophy at The Open University.

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Intelligent design: In conversation with Derren Brown  Featuring Video The Open University

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University), Derren Brown (Guest)

26 October 2010

Psychological illusionist Derren Brown talks to the OU's Nigel Warburton about how personal experiences can be misleading and how people attribute design to objects in...  Read more : Intelligent design: In conversation with Derren Brown

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Appearance and reality: in conversation with Derren Brown  Featuring Video The Open University

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University), Derren Brown (Guest)

27 September 2010

Nigel Warburton talks to psychological illusionist Derren Brown about appearance and reality, and what kind of people are most gullible.  Read more : Appearance and reality: in conversation with Derren Brown

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Nigel Warburton on... absurd consequencesProduction team

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

06 August 2008

Nigel helps us grapple with the nuts and bolts of thinking clearly about absurd consequences, hypothetical questions, sweeping statements, false dichotomy and consistency of argument.  Read more : Nigel Warburton on... absurd consequences

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Nigel Warburton on... cause and correlationphotos.com

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

06 August 2008

Nigel explains the dangers of cause and correlation, rash generalisations and straw men.  Read more : Nigel Warburton on... cause and correlation

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By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

06 August 2008

Nigel Warburton helps us grapple with the nuts and bolts of thinking clearly, with the aim of presenting good, clear, logical arguments  Read more : Emotive language

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Art, censorship and morality Featuring Audio No Copyright Image By Unhindered by Talent via Flicker under Creative Commons license

By Professor Matthew Kieran (Guest), Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

29 April 2008

Should artists have complete freedom? Or should we limit what they say and how they say it? Discover the dilemmas of art, censorship and morality  Read more : Art, censorship and morality

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Nigel Warburton on... what's wrong with killing?The Open University

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

25 March 2008

We often lose sight of the human consequences of war. Photographers can play an important role in reminding us.  Read more : Nigel Warburton on... what's wrong with killing?

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What's wrong with killing? Featuring Audio iStockphoto.com

By Professor Richard Norman (Guest), Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

18 March 2008

Is it ok to wage war? Is it ok to defend yourself against an attacking army? Ethics Bites asks if it's always wrong to kill.  Read more : What's wrong with killing?

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Nigel Warburton on... the case against perfectionJupiter Images

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

12 March 2008

Should we allow genetic and performance enhancement in sport?  Read more : Nigel Warburton on... the case against perfection

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Nigel Warburton on... blameThe Open University

By Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

06 March 2008

What standards do we apply when we apportion blame? Are there degrees of censure?  Read more : Nigel Warburton on... blame

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Research [5]

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Warburton, Nigel (2005). 'Bill Brandt: A Snicket, Halifax, 1937'. In: Howarth, Sophie ed. Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs. London, UK: Tate Publishing, pp. 57–63.

Warburton, Nigel (2004). Is Art Sacred? In: Rogers, Ben ed. Is Nothing Sacred? London, UK: Routledge, pp. 42–50.

Warburton, Nigel (2003). Photography. In: Levinson, Jerrold ed. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 614–626.

Warburton, Nigel (2003). Erno Goldfinger: the life of an architect. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Warburton, Nigel (2002). The Art Question. London, UK: Routledge.

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Emotive language

Comment posted by om2245

31 Jan 2012

Hi Nicola, Mistake has been rectified - many apologies and thanks. OpenLearn Moderator Read more : Emotive language

Emotive language

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30 Jan 2012

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Intelligent design: In conversation with Derren Brown

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Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer in philosophy at The Open University. His podcasts, Philosophy: The Classics and Philosophy Bites, have proved surprisingly popular, regularly topping the iTunes podcast chart. Ethics Bites is his third podcast.

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