Philosophical Reflections

I've recently started to work on a book on (the virtue of) gratitude. One of the questions I intend to address is whether gratitude can ...

I just reread Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude , which I read first 25 years ago, when I was a student. Great book,...

I've been listening again to a radio interview I did some years ago. It was one of those programmes where listeners could ask questio...

A new animal research facility was opened last Friday at the University of Leicester, UK. On Saturday, the left-wing British newspaper ...

I'm trying to finish a paper that I started a while ago and have not been working on for a while. I don't normally do that. What ...

Here's another story by Bradbury that I liked. It's called "The Happiness Machine" and it is, I think, about the ordinarin...

I've been reading The Stories of Ray Bradbury lately, published in Everyman's Library, and I'm almost through. They make wonder...