When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Rather than dwelling on falsehoods and misinformation, I want to emphasize why truth and trust are so vital in politics.

Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

Peter Benson explains why Hegel was obsessed with the number three. One of the best known popularizers of philosophy in Britain is Bryan Magee. Many people will fondly recall his illuminating series ...

Following a 1976 paper of the same name by Bernard Williams, in his 1979 paper ‘Moral Luck’, Thomas Nagel argued that even ...

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The following answers to this vital question each win a semi-random book. People love and need to work – not simply being employed in a pointless job they hate, but work that gives them a sense of ...

Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching undergraduates, and I wanted to blow their minds a little, tear down ...

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who could have produced an argument for which ...

John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures. Richard Dawkins makes so many claims in The God Delusion (2009) that I have decided to select just two for consideration.

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

The story of Russell’s philosophical account of the evils of German politics starts with the chaotic jingoism of the First World War. Prior to 1914, German scholarship had been widely respected in ...