Philosophical Reflections

Yesterday we were informed by our press officer that the “University press office have had several media requests for a list of anti-apar...

The small startup company Backyard Brains is looking for people willing to fund the launch of a new learning tool: cockroaches with ...

Recently I was asked by a journalist what I thought of assisted suicide and the right to die. Here's what I told them: everyone has a ...

Prompted by my students’ reading of John Harris’s “The Survival Lottery” (see previous blog post), I got hold of Shirley Jackson’s The Lott...

Many people still die of organ failure whose lives could be saved if there were only enough organs available for transplantation. Unfortun...

I remember vividly the heated argument that German historians and philosophers were having in the late 1980s, when I was an undergradua...

Margaret Thatcher is dead, and while conservative MPs celebrate her life time achievements and the state is preparing for a bombastic funer...