The author, broadcaster and MP sparked a love of academic philosophy in countless curious viewers and readers

The diversity debate has lost sight of the fact that communities are made up of members who themselves may be very different

Ayer’s work tells us important things about the shortcomings of Anglophone philosophy

The Independent Group promises a break with ideology-led politics but that is simply not possible to achieve

The Today presenter preferred to score political points rather than properly interrogate his interviewees

The answers people give to this question can be both fascinating and disturbing

Human beings are storytellers but that sometimes does us more harm than good

It's a problem philosophers have grappled with for centuries. What makes life go better or worse is varied, personal, and indefinable

Big brain, big mistakes

As heterosexual couples gain access to Civil Partnerships, why not offer legal partnerships to platonic couples, too?