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    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Philosophy for life

      What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Steven Pinker: ‘Putin’s invasion won’t lead to a return to the age of warring civilisation’

      The Harvard professor of psychology says he doesn’t sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational 

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Jemima Kelly
      Why intellectual humility matters

      We should all nurture the ability to recognise our own cognitive biases and to admit when we’re wrong

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Persuading people to worry about the long term is harder than you think

      Not all of us feel that we owe a great deal to distant generations

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Learning how to think well involves hearts as well as minds

      Imagine a person who is hugely knowledgeable and brilliantly rational, yet falls short on virtue

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Metaphysical Animals — the women philosophers who countered logical positivism

      A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy

    • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
      HTSIThe Wellness Issue
      The case for manifesting

      Beloved of millennials, supermodels and movie stars, positive visualisation is becoming ever more popular. Is it wish fulfilment or totally woo-woo?

    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      Jemima Kelly
      Sometimes we need to ‘unbelieve’ our tribe

      It is all too easy to accept the material we come across in our particular filter bubbles

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      HTSI
      ‘Gardening is a way to be a human being’

      Inspired by the great Greek thinkers, Fernando Caruncho’s sculptural gardens nurture mind and soul. Lucia van der Post meets the gardener philosopher

    • Friday, 11 June, 2021
      ObituaryEdward de Bono
      Edward de Bono, author and polymath, 1933-2021

      The bestselling Maltese-born physician coined the phrase ‘lateral thinking’

    • Friday, 5 February, 2021
      Janan Ganesh
      The parable of John Rawls

      The great philosopher won the argument — but lost America

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Universities challenged: critical theory and culture wars

      Two books consider the influence French thinkers have had on scholarship, politics and campus culture in the English-speaking world

    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Time of the Magicians — the decade that changed our way of thinking

      Wolfram Eilenberger’s book touches on the intertwining lives of philosophers Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin and Cassirer

    • Friday, 24 January, 2020
      FT Magazine
      Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right

      Meet the young thinker in one of Britain’s most prestigious academic roles

    • Friday, 16 August, 2019
      ObituaryBryan Magee
      Bryan Magee, philosopher, writer and broadcaster, 1930-2019

      A polymath in thrall to the big philosophical questions

    • Friday, 2 August, 2019
      ObituaryAgnes Heller
      Agnes Heller, philosopher, 1929-2019

      A Holocaust survivor and life-long fighter for freedom

    • Friday, 21 June, 2019
      Artificial intelligence
      Bring on the AI revolution and its shake-up of academia

      Philosophers with dim career prospects are in demand to research the ethics of data tech

    • Friday, 19 October, 2018
      Obituary
      Mary Midgley, philosopher, 1919 to 2018

      A fighter against fads, who believed philosophy is like plumbing

    • Monday, 13 August, 2018
      ReviewSocial Media
      Stand Out of Our Light, by James Williams

      A philosophical study of the ‘faulty GPS’ that guides us in the age of Big Tech

    • Saturday, 4 August, 2018
      FT Alphaville
      Thoughts for the weekend
    • Friday, 25 May, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Why a French philosopher wants to stop Brexit

      But is Bernard-Henri Lévy at odds with a France that sees opportunity in the UK’s departure?

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