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Edmonds, and me, Nigel Warburton.
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Mark Rowlands, a welsh born, Florida based philosopher, has written a book about living with a wolf.
But philosophy Bytes talked to him about another aspect of his life which he got into as a way of wearing out the wolf.
Running.
Here, he warms up with Descartes and then stretches the pace with a bit of existentialism.
Mark Rowlands, welcome to philosophy Bytes.
Thank you, Nigel.
Delighted to be talking to you.
The topic we're going to focus on is philosophy and running.
I wonder if you could say what the connection between those two is.
Well, I think there are actually lots of connections.
Let me give you one example, though.
I think the running can be divided into four stages.
Stage useful philosophical ideas sort of emerge or can be sort of understood.
I think quite well.
The first stage is what we might call the embodied self.
When you get to my age, you're either injured or you're about to be injured.