Why do we keep the central heating off? It isn’t a thriftifarian pose
Letters: Readers respond to an article by Julian Baggini about those who try to keep their energy bills low even though they could afford to pay bigger bills
May 2020
Lockdown living
A letter to my post-lockdown self: ‘Keep listening to the birds’
Author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster Hugh Pym, playwright James Graham and more pen letters to themselves, to be opened in May 2021
November 2018
It’s time we heard humanist views on Thought for the Day
BBC faces renewed calls to open Thought for the Day to atheists
October 2018
Book of the day
How the World Thinks review – a global history of philosophy
Julian Baggini’s engaging survey argues that people everywhere grapple with the same moral questions
September 2018
Taking a philosophical view of eastern and western thinking
Letters: Trevor Curnow on comparative philosophy, Ian Dunbar on analytical philosophy, and Chris Jeyne on our understanding of time
May 2018
Abolish bank holidays. Give us days off with meaning instead
Julian Baggini
A Manchester Day for Manchester, a Kent Day for Kent? How about an Equal Rights Day? Let’s make public holidays matter, says the British philosopher Julian Baggini
January 2018
Statues have had their day. Let’s make our monuments memorable
Julian Baggini
Statues of women in Westminster are long overdue. But new monuments should spark reflection, not genuflection, writes the philosopher Julian Baggini
November 2016
Shortcuts
Glasgow University offers a Simpsons philosophy class – and it makes perfect sense
Philosophy always takes place in a kind of cartoon world. A one-day course in the wisdom of Springfield is an ideal way to introduce the subject
July 2015
Clinging on to the illusion of an unchanging self
Philosophical reflections on me, myself and I – and on the film Inside Out
Film blog
Inside Out: a crash course in PhD philosophy of self that kids will get first
Best holiday reads 2015
April 2015
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will review – Julian Baggini on a freedom beyond determinism
Our actions may be rooted in our physiology as neuroscience has shown, but there is a richer concept of freedom
I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons
The dilemma in chilling new drama Force Majeure raises philosophical quandaries, but it’s not the first film to do so. Memento, Ida and It’s A Wonderful Life all address the Big Questions
Book of the week
Freedom Regained by Julian Baggini review – the question of free will
Men and women aren’t sole authors of themselves, but neither are they slaves, as some theorists argue, to neural firings and inherited genes, writes Terry Eagleton
March 2015
Apple Watch: are you feeling the terror?
Julian Baggini
That the smartwatch is going to normalise several things that should appal us is precisely what we should be most concerned about. Once we love it we’re lost
November 2014
Should I be rude to chuggers? All your big charity questions answered
‘Giving Tuesday’ on 2 December is yet another demand on our reserves of money and goodwill – so should you grow a moustache or climb Kilimanjaro instead? Julian Baggini offers a philosophical roadmap to charitable giving
January 2014
Digested read
The Virtues of the Table – digested read
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini – review
