Jane O’Grady mulls over two new books by Thomas Nagel. No books by Thomas Nagel have appeared since he startled academia with his controversial Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False in 2012. Now there are two at once. Analytic Philosophy and Human Life is a collection of […]
Andrew Strebkov considers animals to be unlikely humanitarians. Dr Benjamin Meiches’ main (academic) interests lie in armed conflict, genocide, and international law. An associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington University, he is known in the field (and no, I don’t mean the battlefield) for his book, The Politics of Annihilation. He’s
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Hugo Whately argues that analysing the problems of philosophy’s history is doing philosophy. At the start of her career in philosophy, Regan Penaluna thought that “contemplating eternal truths” was the “closest a human could come to immortality” (How To Think Like A Woman, pp.248-9), by reflecting “human thought at its greatest magnitude… [embodying] a culture’s
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