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Philip Goff has made an ambitious attempt to explain what our lives mean but with arguments that are sometimes too narrow
American commentator criticises tribalist politics and pushes for Jewish universalism
Nicholas Spencer’s highly readable history explores changing notions of human nature, and asks: who decides who we are?
What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?
The Harvard professor of psychology says he doesn’t sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational
We should all nurture the ability to recognise our own cognitive biases and to admit when we’re wrong
Not all of us feel that we owe a great deal to distant generations
Imagine a person who is hugely knowledgeable and brilliantly rational, yet falls short on virtue
A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy
Beloved of millennials, supermodels and movie stars, positive visualisation is becoming ever more popular. Is it wish fulfilment or totally woo-woo?
It is all too easy to accept the material we come across in our particular filter bubbles
Inspired by the great Greek thinkers, Fernando Caruncho’s sculptural gardens nurture mind and soul. Lucia van der Post meets the gardener philosopher
The bestselling Maltese-born physician coined the phrase ‘lateral thinking’
The great philosopher won the argument — but lost America
Two books consider the influence French thinkers have had on scholarship, politics and campus culture in the English-speaking world
Wolfram Eilenberger’s book touches on the intertwining lives of philosophers Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin and Cassirer
Meet the young thinker in one of Britain’s most prestigious academic roles
A polymath in thrall to the big philosophical questions
A Holocaust survivor and life-long fighter for freedom
Philosophers with dim career prospects are in demand to research the ethics of data tech
A fighter against fads, who believed philosophy is like plumbing
A philosophical study of the ‘faulty GPS’ that guides us in the age of Big Tech
But is Bernard-Henri Lévy at odds with a France that sees opportunity in the UK’s departure?
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