Nigel Warburton
Consultant Editor and Interviewer, Aeon+Psyche
Nigel is a writer, philosopher and podcaster. He is interviewer for the popular Philosophy Bites podcast. His books include A Little History of Philosophy, The Art Question and Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction. Nigel is on Twitter @philosophybites.
Written by Nigel Warburton
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Art
Moments of depth
Stuart Franklin has photographed conflict, nature and people. He discusses what makes a memorable image
Stuart Franklin & Nigel Warburton
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Wellbeing
Is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth?
Nigel Warburton & Jules Evans
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History of ideas
Talk with me
Philosophy should be conversation, not dogma – face-to-face talk about our place in the cosmos and how we should live
Nigel Warburton
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Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitans
It’s not just me, you and everyone we know. Citizens of the world have moral obligations to a wider circle of humanity
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Edited by Nigel Warburton
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Stories and literature
Citizens
Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him?
Tim Pears
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Metaphysics
Purposeful universe
Neither atheism nor theism adequately explains reality. That is why we must consider the middle ground between the two
Philip Goff
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Logic and probability
The patterns of reality
Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task
Timothy Williamson
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Film and visual culture
The truth of photographs
It’s often said that a successful picture ‘captures the essence’ of a subject. But a great photograph does so much more
Daniel Star
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Nature and landscape
The mystic art of gardening
In an era of 20th-century suburban sprawl, the great designer Russell Page infused soulful philosophy into his gardens
Caleb Smith
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Ethics
Wrestling with relativism
Bernard Williams argued that one’s ethics is shaped by culture and history. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is right
Daniel Callcut
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Philosophy of language
Quantum poetics
How Borges and Heisenberg converged on the notion that language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality
William Egginton
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Political philosophy
Liberalism against capitalism
The work of John Rawls shows that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism
Colin Bradley
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Thinkers and theories
Wittgenstein in the classroom
The philosopher understood that learning – of a concept, of ourselves, of each other – is the undertaking of a whole life
Calum Jacobs
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Thinkers and theories
Remember Richard Price!
Demonised by the political establishment for his radical, dissenting views, this 18th-century Welsh polymath deserves better
Huw Williams
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Virtues and vices
Be what you hope for
In the face of global challenges, Augustine offers a way between the despair of pessimism and the presumption of optimism
Michael Lamb
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Stories and literature
The diaries of Kafka
By day an insurance official, by night he was an incessant, insomniacal scribe of the space between waking and dreaming
Ross Benjamin