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.
essayArt
Moments of depth
Stuart Franklin has photographed conflict, nature and people. He discusses what makes a memorable image
Stuart Franklin & Nigel Warburton
ideaWellbeing
Is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth?
Nigel Warburton & Jules Evans
essayHistory 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
essayCosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitans
It’s not just me, you and everyone we know. Citizens of the world have moral obligations to a wider circle of humanity
Nigel Warburton
essayKnowledge
Socrates would be pleased
With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
Jay Miller
essayEthics
Why love matters most
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
Cathy Mason
essayEthics
The incompleteness of ethics
Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden
Elad Uzan
essayAnimals and humans
To build a nest
Throughout the animal kingdom, the parents of newborns must strive to create snug sanctuaries in a hazardous world
Helen Jukes
essayConsciousness and altered states
Kind of confusing
Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?
Tim Bayne
essayHistory of ideas
From scattered traces
How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought
Luka Boršić
essayMusic
The beat of goombay
Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music
Salwa Halloway
essayVirtues and vices
Awkward silences
What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other
Rebecca Roache
essayEthics
Moral refuge
You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees?
Bradley Hillier-Smith
essayArt
The ecstatic swoon
As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead
Robert D Zaretsky
essayPhysics
The cat that wouldn’t die
The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics?
Jim Baggott
essayCosmology
Just a pale blue dot
When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance?
Tim Bayne