Edinburgh International Book Festival
TAKING FOOD WITH A PINCH OF SALT – EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL, 13 AUGUST. Talking about my book The Virtues of the Table at 3pm.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Has the world become too noisy?
The portable personal stereo created the mindset of portable personal space. People increasingly move around in bubbles, behaving as though in their own living rooms, oblivious to others.
ReadIs the whole really greater than the sum of its parts?
Start with a wrong idea of the parts and, good though they may seem, the whole you try to build from them just won’t add up, and the cool, rational pursuit of the abstract general good will not lead to the real good after all.
ReadOn the politics of empathy
Spin doctors are out; bona fide professors are in. Or at least that’s how Ed Miliband’s office has spun his interest in the “politics of empathy”, which has led him to call on the services of one of the world’s leading researchers on autism, Simon Baron-Cohen…
ReadWho should we trust?
The philosophic soul trusts herself no more and no less than she does anyone else. None of us can trust that our memories, our reasoning or our intentions guarantee the truth or goodness of what they produce. We need to check, verify and monitor.
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