Philosophical Reflections

I must have been seven or eight years old when I first met the time traveller. My parents and I were spending the day at my grandparents’,...

The story is well known, at least in its outlines: on the day when he is supposed to marry his beloved Mercedes, the young sailor Edmond Dan...

More than a hundred years ago, the American philosopher and ur-psychologist William James once briefly discussed, in one of the footnotes t...

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin G. Miller just published an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (39/1, 2013) on "what makes ...

Next week I'm going to take part in a panel discussion in Bristol on whether "students should take smart drugs". A fairly comm...

Just finished Les Miserables (the book, not the musical). Lots of interesting reflections in there (and a great tale, too). In the final cha...

A contemporary German philosopher (I forget who) once said that the best about two chairs is that you can sit between them. Right now this i...