There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine […]

Philosophers are more likely to be poor than rich. Some have made a virtue out of that. Diogenes of Sinope, […]

There is a tradition in philosophy that makes our memories the core of our personal being, essential to what we […]

There is a remarkable photograph taken in Hamburg in 1936. It shows a crowd of shipyard workers gathered for the […]

Truth-telling is a virtue, isn’t it? That’s what we’re told. You should be an honest person, and honesty involves telling […]

Can you lose your identity while still being alive? Yes. I saw my mother lose hers, then regain something of […]

Interviewee: Simon Critchley. Interview by Nigel Warburton.   Nigel Warburton: You’ve just written a book called ‘What We Think About […]

Nigel Warburton: What is energy? Caspar Henderson: Energy is eternal delight, according to William Blake! Or to take another view, […]

Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, left us to interpret and apply his often-cryptic aphorisms. One of the fragments that survives from […]

No one can really know how much time they have left to live, though some have a better idea than […]

Clean lines, absence of decoration, avoidance of clutter, simplicity, and above all functionality – these are the characteristics of modernist […]

Søren Kierkegaard famously pointed out that the only way we can understand life is backwards – we are compelled to […]

We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […]