Popular Philosophy

Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also - intermittently - the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is like...

Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the one point four kilos of matter insid...

For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, from Cloud cuckoo lan...

As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons,...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new c...

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell''s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help...

Socrates left no philosophical writings himself, but luckily he had a dog called Ted who faithfully learnt and interpreted his sayings. Through Ted...

The Way to Self-Development combines the life events of author George Kiourtzidis with the work of his great uncle and renowned 20th century philos...

In Dracula and Philosophy 24 nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles. John C. Altmann decides whether Dracula can r...

If you have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted or unworthy, this book is for you.Sometimes all it takes is a simple question to awaken the strength a...

Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollars new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provision...

'A simple yet powerful book that reaches straight to the heart.' John GrayWhen I Loved Myself Enough is a beautiful collection of wisdom that is s...

Life in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early twenty-first century presents us with many controversial ethical issues: abortion, poverty, online behavi...

Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas The Status Game might be his best yet James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times ...

Thoughtings is a poetry collection with a difference. The name 'Thoughtings' was inspired by a 5-year old who, when asked to explain what thinkin...

Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered ...

When it comes to living, theres no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being ...

This book is the first of three in the Covid-war series. It is a factual account timelined and written as a diary of events of the Covid-19 pandemi...

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of th...

The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation ...