Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost
by Ray Monk
Frege's mind was the most powerful motor in modern philosophy. But as a human being, he was a narrow man who left little mark
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I am, therefore I think: Daniel Dennett’s hard problem
by Julian Baggini
Words turned our brains into minds, and got us hung up on the ghost in the machine. But a new book isn't going to banish that spectre
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How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the world
by Stuart Ward
Time for Britons to relinquish the empire state of mind
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Why David Hume and Adam Smith were the original odd couple
by Jesse Norman
The engines of the enlightenment
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The origins of prejudice: an examination of America’s racial imagination
by Toni Morrison
We aren’t born prejudiced in the womb but learn to treat strangers differently by example
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The strange philosophy of Percy Pig: the children’s sweet that wants to be eaten
by Chris Townsend
The M&S star is 25 years old. But why has no-one considered the strangeness of a pig sweet made with real pigs?
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Are moral philosophers forming their theories back to front?
by Linda Zagzebski
Rather than starting from theory and applying it to the world, should we go about things the other way round? A new strain of philosophical thinking argues just that
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Digging up Dalí: what the spectacle of the artist’s exhumation reveals about us
by AN Devers
A soothsayer has placed a paternity claim against the great surrealist, who has been exhumed for DNA tests. Would Dalí enjoy the spectacle? More importantly: do we?
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The fantasy of Theresa May’s immigration target
by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Irrational nationalism demands that we rebuild our sense of shared truth
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