Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on What Humans Are Like, 2010.

Philosophy Bites is a semi-monthly podcast that features interviews with eminent philosophical scholars on their areas of specialization and expertise.  In this interview, from November of 2010, Nigel Warburton discusses Adam Smith’s theory of human nature as it contributed to his larger systematic project of determining the principles of human cooperative living with Nicholas Phillipson, Smith’s most recent and acclaimed biographer.  Dr. Phillipson is the emeritus Senior Lecturer and Reader of History at the University of Edinburgh, and his biography of Smith entitled, Adam Smith an Enlightened Life was published by Yale University Press in 2010.