Eat green to save the environment, says IPCC – how to tell if that really means you
Governments need to do more to make sustainability possible; addressing climate change means also addressing inequality.
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Influential writing old and new.
The Fruit Salad Maker: an interdisciplinary tale
There seems to be a lot of excitement about interdisciplinarity but are “the disciplines” ready to see beyond the primacy of their fields?
Philosophy and Kant
Towards the conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason he writes something that might come as a surprise.
Liberal Arts Education by and for Women
Liberal Arts Education owes much to a female mastermind.
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
According to Ubuntu philosophy, people are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time.
How is global warming heating up the Earth?
Is global warming heating up the Earth? A question from Raphael, aged 11, Auckland, New Zealand.
Learning and the Soul
In Plato’s Republic the allegory of the cave reveals that each of us has a unique capacity to learn.
Nietzsche on the Body
The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd.
Why are we here?
In 1977 a team of NASA scientists sent two spacecraft into the distant reaches of our universe.
On Inequality
What is the Origin of the Inequality among Mankind? Jean Jacques Rousseau’s now classic work, ask the question most powerfully.
Plato’s Apology
So persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth. Read one of Plato’s most powerful works.
We need a new Romanticism
Neuroscience was part of the dinner conversation in my family, often a prerequisite for truth. Want to talk about art? Not without neuroscience.
This is Water
This is Water is a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace on 21st May 2005 at Kenyon College.
Learning changes you
Higher education has now joined the growing list of subjects about which it is increasingly difficult to have an informed public argument.
Education: the two most important things.
Might it be said that the two most important things that education has to do contradict each other.
Most people don’t grow up – Maya Angelou
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
The dancing species: how moving together in time helps make us human
Dancing is a human universal, but why? It is present in human cultures old and new; central to those with the longest continuous histories.
This is possibly the most right wing cabinet in modern history
An article the Guardian pulled written by Frankie Boyle
