History is important, but the future matters more
“Good ideas in education often emerge as much-needed correctives to failures in the existing system. But they fail when they[…]
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Just good friends?
“The desire to preserve the heart of our mystery is often based more on pride and fear than good sense.[…]
ReadHobbes Podcast
This is a 10-minute podcast about the first Thomas Hobbes Festival of Ideas. It includes contributions from John Cottingham, Anthony[…]
ReadGood Morning Sunday – BBC Radio 2
I was on this week’s (19 October) programme talking with Yvonne Ridley, a convert to Islam, and host Roger Royle[…]
ReadMind the gap between man and machine
“We need to go beyond binary distinctions such as thinking/not thinking or conscious/not conscious. Intelligence and consciousness turn out to[…]
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