Some notes and comments from letters and exchanges I had in the press in 2010-2012. I think I was quite informative and fairly...

WORLDCHANGING 2012 A new politics of the common good isn't only about finding more scrupulous politicians. It also requires a more...

THE END OF NATURE WITHOUT AS THE END OF NATURE WITHIN When human empathy ends, civilisation declines and falls. The warm, affective ties...

APOCALYPSE Andrew Simms’ book Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity argues for a new ‘qualitative’ conception of prosperity...

THE DIALOGICAL MOMENT Natural Perspectives: Dire consequences if we don't curb emissions http://www.latimes.com/tn-hbi-1117-natural-20111...

Why are we letting the big emitters control our future? 2011 Economists who wish to impress the world with their cleverness and...

PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH 2011 A review of Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson (Earthscan) A real and...

ESTRANGEMENT AND EXTINCTION 2011 On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger So great has the human impact...

Global Heating – a Guide to the Arguments The following is a quick guide to the science of climate change. Climate change deniers tend to...

HEAVENS’ PERFORMANCE 2010 A review of Here on Earth by Tim Flannery, Penguin Tim Flannery is a university professor who read English...

'Best evidence yet' for global heating 2010 Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs Scientists from two leading climate...

WHY PHILOSOPHY A talk I gave on philosophy, Liverpool, UK, 2010 Philosophy has been described as being 'brain-breakingly' difficult. And...

Levels of Cognition Plato – the journey from the shadows to the sun is an ascent through levels of cognition from instincts and desires...

Plato's Cave A talk from Liverpool, UK, 2010 OBJECTIVE REALITY AND ABSOLUTE MORALITY Nietzsche refers to the ‘death of God’ as a tragedy....

Plato The theory of forms Down through the Centuries, many philosophers, theologians and artists have been struck by the thought that...

THE RATIONAL UTOPIA The first philosophers understood philosophy as philosophia, the love of wisdom. Sophia, the goddess of wisdom....

ARISTOTLE’S FLOURISHING The idea that there is a goal of life and that a human being can have a function is at the heart of most ancient...

As a mental discipline, philosophy began when human beings started to try to understand the world by the use of their reason, without...

SPECTATORS OR PARTICIPANTS The passage that really got me interested in philosophy came from Plato discussing the ideal world of forms....

HEGEL – OBJECTIFICATION AND ALIENATION PROGRESS OF REASON TO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF FREEDOM We may now turn to Hegel's philosophy itself....