
The plain-speaking philosophers
Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked…
ByNikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked…
ByHow Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world.
ByFor decades, as he awaited his turn to ascend the British throne, Charles presided over another kingdom: rural Transylvania. What…
ByDavid Baddiel’s new book argues that a deity that saves us from death is confected from human desire.
ByBrilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
ByIn renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
ByWhy the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century still speaks to us.
ByHer philosophy of marriage is an ethical dead end.
By