Spinoza the atheist
This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.
Ideas
Fail better
Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating
Meme Wars (part 1)
Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper
Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore
Intelligent design
Jonathan Derbyshire witnesses the strange death of the public thinker
Pleasure principles
In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill
Best of enemies
Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes
Reasonable bounds
Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
Identity crisis
Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Uncommon decency
We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty