The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
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It’s Sunday. It’s quiet. I’ll just clear the decks of my philosophy faux-infographics jokes. It’s not just trolleys. Some months back I considered it seriously: “Nietzsche’s key design insight: complex, esoteric ideas, appreciable only by the few — perhaps only by the One! — can be conveyed via simple, conventionalised iconography, suitable for delivering simple, […]
For this month's column, John Mitchinson pens a personal reflection on why knowing about what kills us makes it no less mysterious
Governments are run by political parties and for political interests – but they shouldn't be, argues philosopher AC Grayling
An open invitation to the Fremantle launch ...
The reviews for HBM are coming in and, so far, have been enormously positive ...
"Animal Liberation" is nearly 50 years old. What have we learned?
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We can learn about the universe without conquering it.
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My son’s language is made of a bundle of sounds that do not exist in the Spanish that we speak around the Río de la Plata. He repeats syllables he himself invented, he alternates them with onomatopoeias, guttural sounds, and high-pitched shouts. It is an expressive, singing language. I wrote this on Twitter at 6:30 […]