John Cottingham
More Things in Heaven and Earth
In philosophical circles, it was once heresy to challenge Darwinian reductionism. That is now changing
God Gives Us Dignity, Dignitas Only Death
The Swiss euthanasia clinic claims to respect its patients’ dignity, but secularism alone cannot confer moral value on human life
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of “saving God” by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need saving – just replacing God with Nature isn’t enough
From Job to the Enlightenment
Susan Neiman’s reading of the Enlightenment is certainly distinctive, but also offers a courageous and uplifting attempt to tell the story as it is
I Think, Therefore I Am – An Individual
How the modern ideal of individuality can leave us adrift in a value-free world
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities