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philosopher explains the 4 steps to winning an...

Learn how to be a better debater.Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs...

extreme altruism: should you care for strangers at...

The world is full of needless suffering. How should each of us respond? Should we live as moral a...

the dream of enlightenment by anthony gottlieb...

This much-anticipated sequel to The Dream of Reason overturns our thinking approximately such major...

from left bank to left behind: where have the...

From Voltaire and Rousseau to Sartre and De Beauvoir,France has long produced world-leading...

the second body by daisy hildyard review - from...

These fretful,questioning essays force readers to confront the disruption of our climate and...

psychopolitics: neoliberalism and new technologies...

An examination of the internet age suggests that we should cultivate the heresies of secrets and...

think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be...

The existentialists asked the essential questions – and still have much to offer us nowadays. So...

forget mindfulness, stop trying to find yourself...

Why is the history of Chinese philosophy now the most popular course at Harvard? Top tips on how to...

hilary putnam obituary

Philosopher who revolutionised the philosophy of mindThe American philosopher Hilary Putnam,who has...

john forrester obituary

Historian and philosopher who wrote extensively on Freud and psychoanalysisThe historian and...

you don t need to know plato and aristotle to be a...

Academic philosophers call on Amber Rudd to reconsider decision to refuse Pakistani’s request for...

the 100 best nonfiction books: no 35 - the open...

The Austrian-born philosopher’s postwar rallying scream for western liberal democracy was hugely...

at the existentialist cafe by sarah bakewell...

In our age of surveillance and consumerist laziness,it’s time we looked again at the...

bertrand russell reveals the 4 human desires that...

opposite to Aristotle,the eminent logician, philosopher, and activist Bertrand Russell believed that...

at the existentialist cafe: freedom, being, and...

Sarah Bakewell recounts the story of existentialism with wit and intelligence,offering a fresh take...

a short, animated introduction to emil cioran, the...

It is admittedly a grievous oversimplification,but if asked to summarize a critical incompatibility...

wake up and smell the cheese - there s nothing...

It’s so easy to scoff at pseudo-profound sayings,but in my dark times I have found them...

a good life: philosophy from cradle to grave...

heed Rowlands’s ambitious fiction-philosophy hybrid is a flawed but fascinating meditation on...

we re not as selfish as we think we are. here s...

Stories of greed and ego bombard us. But a unusual study shows that humans are inherently goodDo you...

julian baggini: free will is a notoriously thorny...

The philosopher explains how his new book was inspired by the widespread acceptance of fallacious...

an animated introduction to ludwig wittgenstein ...

In the recorded history of philosophy,there may be no sharper a intellect than Ludwig Wittgenstein....

an animated introduction to stoicism, the ancient...

Forever known,it seems, as keeping a stiff upper lip, or ” Stoicism—like its...

james franco hosts philosophy time, a new videos...

How do you gain ordinary people interested in philosophy? If we are to believe the accounts of...

an animated introduction to rene descartes his...

Early Enlightenment French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes invented a new genre of...

existential monday review - a sideways look at...

These essays by the Romanian intellectual Benjamin Fondane leer at the limitations of...

philosopher roman krznaric: we are in more urgent...

Australian philosopher says by first stepping outside yourself,advantage and action follow, and that...

are soas students right to decolonise their...

Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western...

martians, bells, cutlery… things are all...

Do you ever wonder why we call one thing one thing and another thing something else? Well,here’s a...

philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs: that s...

Can you be a expedient person whether you do bad things? Who should own power? These are questions...

how can we know what is true? and what is bs? tips...

Science denialism may be a deeply entrenched and enormously damaging political phenomenon. But it is...

when michel foucault tripped on acid in death...

Image by Nemomain,via Wikimedia Commons French theorist Michel Foucault rose to international...

why the world does not exist by markus gabriel -...

Who decides what constitutes reality? A fluent philosophical attack on the hubris of science Markus...

the meaning of science by tim lewens review - can...

From GM crops to antidepressive drugs,there is a lot of public scepticism that science is never...

listen to an audio recording of the guardian live...

Novelist Will Self in conversation with political philosopher John Gray on the...

freedom, or their idea of it: does america need...

Time on the US publicity trail with British author Sarah Bakewell revealed enduring angst about...

if fireproofing is a waste for the poor, it is...

Megan McArdle has this piece approximately the London fire in which she argues that it could be that...

neoliberals used to refer to themselves as new...

Jonathan Chait is crazy that people call him a “neoliberal” and so insists that the word has no...

liberalism: the life of an idea by edmund fawcett...

Gladstone,Lloyd George Bernie Sanders? This remarkable book approximately a still controversial...

bertrand russells 10 lessons for a creative, happy...

Bertrand Russell is a 20th-century philosopher for 21st-century living,arguing we can achieve far...

seven zen stories that could open your mind

For centuries,Zen masters occupy used stories and koans, or paradoxical riddles, or to attend...

french philosopher andre glucksmann dies at 78

‘My first and best friend is no more,’ says son, on death of mental who spoke up for the...

the rise in stock of philosophy graduates

Philosophy graduates are suddenly all the rage with employers. What can they possibly maintain to...

land as soil and land as space

The argument that people can appropriate unowned land by mixing their labor with it has a lot of...

the case to recognise indigenous knowledge as...

In this passionate talk, Albert Wiggan calls for better recognition from the scientific community...

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