A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test arguments

A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test their arguments. Is this the future for philosophy? | Continue reading


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Intellectual Life Is Still Catching Up to Urbanisation

Urbanisation might be the most profound change to human society in a century, more telling than colour, class or continent | Continue reading


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Why do the temperamentally blessed sail through life’s storms?

Just one in five people will be lucky enough to avoid mental health problems throughout their life. How do they do it? | Continue reading


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Why the utopian vision of William Morris is now within reach

In 1890 William Morris imagined a world free from wage slavery. Thanks to technology, his vision is finally within reach | Continue reading


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Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is pos... | Continue reading


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