Nikhil Krishnan

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Nikhil Krishnan is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His writing has appeared in n+1, New Statesman and The Oxonian Review, among others. He is working on a narrative history of analytic philosophy and its critics in 20th-century Britain, provisionally titled Logic Lane.

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Written by Nikhil Krishnan

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essayThinkers and theories

Is goodness natural?

Philippa Foot was one of a group of brilliant women philosophers who swam against the tide of 20th-century moral thought

Nikhil Krishnan

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essayHistory of ideas

How not to be a chucklehead

Saturday mornings with J L Austin in postwar Oxford were a golden time for wordplay, silly jokes and serious philosophy

Nikhil Krishnan

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essayStories and literature

Enid Blyton, moral guide

The unfashionable world of Blyton’s school stories still has much to say about what it means to live an ethical life

Nikhil Krishnan