It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to […]

The 21st century has created a whole range of new types of professional that we have never had before – […]

There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark […]

It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) […]

“All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some […]

“Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished […]

While on holiday in Vienna in 1833, the English poet Arthur Henry Hallam died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged […]

There’s a type of person who will tell you that life is a war, or at least, that we should […]

“The truly scary part of AI… is not the thought that we can be replaced by unfree rule-following machines. It’s […]

Despite his short life, the nineteenth century American author Henry David Thoreau has become an enduring symbol of not one, […]

According to medieval Jewish texts, the Roman emperor Hadrian once asked Rabbi Joshua ben Chanania about the doctrine of bodily […]

Here’s a fun little thought-experiment, derived from the work of Ernest Gellner. Try jotting down a list of all the […]

After reading moral philosophy for a while, you may come to suspect that being a moral philosopher must be utterly […]

Accepting the natural world is breakable took us centuries. Accepting we ourselves could break it took even longer. Thomas Jefferson, […]

In March 2018, a man named Mike Hughes climbed into a homemade, steam-powered rocket, and launched himself 700 metres above […]