Philosophy Bites

David Hume is probably the greatest English-speaking philosopher to date. In this interview for Philosophy Bites. Peter ... more

Are men and women different by nature? And if so, what follows? Janet Radcliffe Richards, author of The Sceptical Feminis... more

Is it immoral even to consider the use of torture in some circumstances? If the State is threatened, should we be prepared... more

What is art? Can anything be a work of art? Derek Matravers, author of Art and Emotion , explores these questions in conv... more

Was Plato's ideal state a totalitarian one? Karl Popper, thought so, and made his case in The Open Society and Its Enemie... more

We often blame people for what they do or fail to do. But that implies that they were free to choose whether or not to act... more

Is it possible to be a citizen of the world while maintaining your own distinctive identity? Anthony Appiah defends the et... more

A.C. Grayling, author of a recent biography of Renà Descartes, explores Descartes' Cogito argument, the pivotal argument... more

Events happen in time. And time is essentially tensed: there is past, present, future. D.H. Mellor, author of Real Time ... more

If what I do has only a negligible impact on events, why should I bother doing it at all? Why not 'free ride' on other peo... more