is Chauncey Stillman professor of practical ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in North Carolina. He is co-instructor of the Coursera online ...

There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger. Anger greets most of us every day – in our personal relationships, in the workplace, on the highway, on airline trips – ...

is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Cambridge. She recently became the first philosopher to perform at Latitude Festival, and writes regularly for Quartz. We live out our lives amid a ...

Every week at the office, you and your fellow employees have meetings to discuss progress on group projects and to divide tasks efficiently. Perhaps in the evening, you go home and cook dinner with ...

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame ...

We all know people who have suffered by trusting too much: scammed customers, jilted lovers, shunned friends. Indeed, most of us have been burned by misplaced trust. These personal and vicarious ...

My dad was an unhappy man. He used to complain about the slightest thing being out of place – a pen, the honeypot, his special knife with the fattened grip. By the time his health really started ...

In 1963, Martin Heidegger sat down for an interview with Bhikku Maha Mani, a Vietnamese-born Buddhist monk, radio presenter and great admirer of the reclusive and influential German philosopher. In ...

The Tabula Peutingeriana, or the Peutinger Map, is known for both its peculiar dimensions and uncertain origins. A parchment scroll a foot tall and 22 feet long, the map depicts the Roman Empire at ...

is professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, London. She is the author of Revenge in Athenian Culture (2008) and co-editor with Lesel Dawson of Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval ...

The art of ‘being for another’ – following, listening to and making sense of another person’s world – has been practised for millennia. Humans have always discussed their lives, their values and their ...