In "Freedom: An Impossible Reality", Raymond Tallis proposes "intentionality" as a property unique to humans.
Out now – featuring Carl Rhodes on woke capitalism, Alice Bell on climate action gone wrong, Brett Scott on the war on cash and Semmi W. on biotech and stolen cells.
Andrew Copson talks to Steven Pinker about his latest book on rationality. Why does the concept leave so many people cold?
How The Light Gets In festival aims to change the way people think about philosophy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein began his landmark 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' in the First World War trenches aged just 21
Out now – featuring Julian Baggini on the unavoidable cruelty of nature, Peter Forbes on how to build an animal and Cal Flyn on talking with dogs.
The Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado's intellectual development intersects closely with his own metamorphosis
We talk to the "poet of physics" about the history, and sheer wonder, of quantum theory.
Arthur Schopenhauer's work comes as a beacon of light in these dark times
Cruella de Vil has pride of place in the rogue's gallery of iconic villains, but a new film transforms her into a good-hearted hero.