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.
Written by Nikhil Krishnan
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Thinkers 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
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History 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
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Stories 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
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