David Edmonds is an award-winning radio feature maker at the BBC World Service. He studied at Oxford University, has a PhD in Philosophy from the Open University

Open University

The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

 and has held fellowships at the universities of Chicago and Michigan. Edmonds is the author of Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination and co-author with John Eidinow of Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers is a 2001 book by BBC journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow about events in the history of philosophy involving Sir Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, leading to a confrontation at the Cambridge...

and Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...

 Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time.

With Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton is a philosopher, currently Senior Lecturer at the Open University. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, being author of a number of books of this genre, but he has also written academic works in esthetics and applied ethics.-Education:Warburton received a BA from the...

he produces the popular podcast series Philosophy Bites.

External links

• David Higham Associates webpage
• Philosophy Bites podcast
• Caste Wars ISBN 9780415385374
• Wittgenstein's Poker ISBN 9780571209095
• Bobby Fischer Goes to War ISBN 9780060510244