Feeling right and wrong
On trusting moral intuitions.
Julian Baggini
the website of writer and philosopher Julian Baggini
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Review: How to Agree to Disagree
Review of How to Agree to Disagree: Turning Conflict into Connection by Gabrielle Rifkind for the Literary Review.
Naturebang
What if all the ideas and values surrounding our lives are like pieces of sediment in a river? Some never quite settle and get swept away, lost to the currents of time. But some take hold, solidify, become part of the cultural bedrock that underpin our lives.
Now’s the time for Confucian wisdom
We’ve found it easy to ignore the philosopher’s work—but, as a new translation shows, it contains correctives for the limitations of western liberalism
Review: Why We Think What We Think:
Review for the FT of Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs, by Turi Munthe
Review: Prophecy by Carissa Véliz
Review of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI, by Carissa Véliz for the Wall Street Journal.
Recipes for Success
Review for the TLS of What We Eat: A Global History of Food, Edited by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer. Columbia University Press. (Unedited, submitted version.)
Heated debate
The ethics of air conditioning
Central heating creates political divide after France records coldest day
This is a BBC New article rewritten to imagine a world in which we were experiencing global cooling, not heating.[...]
A Good Read
Comedy writer and director Victoria Pile joins philosopher and author Julian Baggini to talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. On the menu is a feminist revenge novel that is as dark as it is funny, a classic Hemingway novella that casts us out to sea, and an evocative short story set on a remote island off Scotland.