Philosophy

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everyth...

A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem. What is the value of the durable at a time when the new is paramount? H...

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ra...

Alain de Botton takes us one step further than Dawkins or Hitchens ventured - into a world of ideas beyond the God debate... All of us, whether rel...

Despite all of our best intentions, communication is still a challenge for most of us. How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person ca...

The question of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated and it continues to be a controversial topic today. In Th...

In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, etern...

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of ...

Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command ...

Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars...