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  • Editorial: it just ain't natural

    We shouldn't allow myth and dogma to cloud rational evidence-based argument

  • Delusions of grandeur

    Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong

  • Playing God

    With Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein due to open at the National Theatre in February, Philip Ball looks at the timeless fascination, and consequences, of the monster myth

  • Book review: The Honour Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Stephen Howe decodes Anthony Appiah

  • People get ready

    A new exhibition of James Barnor’s photography provides a route-map of Afro-Modernism. Kobena Mercer gets it in focus

  • Science, God's Philosophers and the Dark Ages

    The claims made by James Hannam regarding the birth of modern science in the Middle Ages do not stand up to scrutiny, says Charles Freeman

  • In defence of God's Philosophers

    Historian James Hannam responds to Charles Freeman's critique of his book on the medieval foundations of modern science, which was nominated for the Royal Society's prize for science books

  • Antichrist

    Likeable anarchist, modest Übermensch, atheist preacher – Jonathan Rée is delighted by the paradoxical philosopher

  • Diary: What did the Romans ever do for us?

    Nothing, it turns out. They did it all for themselves, the selfish so-and-sos. Natalie Haynes explains

  • Against humanism

    Of course we should love, honour and cherish our species, says Mary Midgley. But should we have to worship it too?