Tiffany Jenkins
Cultural sociologist and writer
Edinburgh
Stephen T Asma
Professor of Philosophy
Columbia College Chicago
David P Barash
Professor of Psychology Emeritus
University of Washington
Galen Strawson
Professor in philosophy
University of Texas, Austin
Stuart Kauffman
Martha C Nussbaum
Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago
Peter Adamson
Professor of Philosophy
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Kyle Arnold
Psychologist
Brooklyn, NY
Leon Kreitzman
Freelance Writer
Sara McDougall
Associate Professor of History
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Dan Stone
Professor of Modern History
Royal Holloway, University of London.
Tom Nichols
Professor of National Security Affairs
US Naval War College
Lisa Tessman
Professor of Philosophy
Binghamton University
Kate Flint
Provost Professor of Art History and English
University of Southern California
Clare Chambers
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Christian B Miller
A C Reid Professor of Philosophy
Wake Forest University
Gideon Yaffe
Professor of Law, of Philosophy, & of Psychology
Yale
Peter Atkins
Fellow of Lincoln College
University of Oxford
Christer Petley
Professor of History
University of Southampton
Michael Braddick
Professor of History
University of Sheffield
Andrew Murphy
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University
Jonathan Webber
Head of Philosophy
Cardiff University
Ellen Winner
Professor of Psychology
Boston College
Tom McLeish
Professor of Natural Philosophy
Department of Physics, University of York
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Religion
Is God a silverback?
Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male
David P Barash
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Values and beliefs
Beyond anger
Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex
Martha C Nussbaum
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Philosophy of mind
I am not a story
Some find it comforting to think of life as a story. Others find that absurd. So are you a Narrative or a non-Narrative?
Galen Strawson
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Philosophy of science
Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
Stuart Kauffman
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Subcultures
Does one ethnic group own its cultural artefacts?
Tiffany Jenkins
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Mental health
The divine fire of Philip K Dick’s religious visions
Kyle Arnold
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Metaphysics
What can Avicenna teach us about the mind-body problem?
Peter Adamson
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Comparative philosophy
Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy
Peter Adamson
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Sleep and dreams
How the 24-hour society is stealing time from the night
Leon Kreitzman
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History of ideas
If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians
Peter Adamson
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History of ideas
When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike
Peter Adamson
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War and peace
Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles
Cathal J Nolan
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History
The strange story of inventing the ‘bastard’ in medieval Europe
Sara McDougall
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History
Concentration camps reveal the nature of the modern state
Dan Stone
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Social psychology
The crisis of expertise
Experts are either derided or held up as all-seeing gurus. Time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy
Tom Nichols
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Ethics
Sometimes giving a person a choice is an act of terrible cruelty
Lisa Tessman
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Art
Blinded by the light: the violence of flash photography
Kate Flint
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Political philosophy
Against marriage
Marriage is what happens when the state gets involved in endorsing and regulating personal relationships. It’s a bad idea
Clare Chambers
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Ethics
True generosity involves more than just giving
Christian B Miller
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Human rights and justice
Children deserve leniency in law, and the reason is political
Gideon Yaffe