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....

It was a small step from Kant to the philosophies of Hegel and Marx, the pair of them translating Kantian insights concerning creative...

PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE Like science, philosophy is a truth seeking enquiry that seeks to find answers to questions by a process of...

Sceptical environmentalism 31 August 2010 Review of Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg 2010...

LIES, DAMNED LIES AND JOURNALISM 'How can you help being snobs, so long as this balderdash is set before you?' wondered Thackeray. 'Oh,...

NUCLEAR NIHILISM 2010 Before Christmas, I was asked by The Green Party to join and support the campaign ‘No Need for Nuclear’. This, I...

Public Responsibility - Time To Share The Burden Of Proof Jan 2010 An unsubstantiated claim predicting the meltdown of Himalayan glaciers...

The record loss of sea-ice in the Arctic represents a grave threat to the future of life on Earth, not least human life. For the past few...

THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF HUMANITY Dec 2009 From the 1940’s into the 1950’s, the writer on cities and civilisation Lewis Mumford wrote a...

The global civil society movement Dec 2009 We should begin with a stark admission that for a couple of generations now, most people have...

FEAR AND SELFISHNESS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Dec 2009 'Act for the sake of love': Archbishop preaches in Copenhagen Cathedral Sunday...

Can climate crisis be avoided? Can climate crisis be avoided? The simple answer to this question would be ‘no, it’s already here’, but...

Dupes, idiots and climate change deniers 2009 Do climate change deniers merit a response? My old Director of Studies once gave me a piece...

CLIMATE CRISIS AS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME HUMAN Back in the early 1970s, the environmentalist Robert Waller wrote the book Be Human or...

Eco Catastrophe in our lifetimes Catastrophic warming 'in our lifetimes' - Met Office Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in...

Giddens’s Paradox Not one given to false modesty, the sociologist Anthony Giddens has named a paradox after himself, Giddens's Paradox....

Ocean acidification and mass extinction Human CO2 emissions blamed for dangerously acidic seas March 2009 Climate scientists warn of mass...

THE THEOLOGY OF ENOUGH The theology of enough might help us reach a more financially stable, greener future, says John Madeley...

Seven Years to save the Planet July 2008 Review of Seven Years To Save The Planet: The Questions And Answers by Bill McGuire (2008...