Every Little Helps?
What’s the point of doing a sponsored walk, or even voting? On the supposed irrationality of small acts in the latest Microphilosophy newsletter.
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ZOE and personalised nutrition
On the Guardian Science Weekly podcast with academic dietician Dr Nicola Guess and ZOE’s Sarah Berry.
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Inside the mind of a Nimby
Nimbyism is too often reduced to its negative sides: metathesiophobia (fear of change) and xenophobia (fear of strangers). But these fears are arguably the flipsides of what the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton called “oikophilia”: the love of home.
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Questions of character
I used to play five-a-side football with Keir Starmer. Although this might sound like a pathetic attempt to show that[…]
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Philosophy in the wild
Eric Schwitzgebel is like a kid eager for the grown-ups to join his frolics, only his “toys” are theories about the nature of the world, mind and causation that shatter certainties and open up possibilities. He argues that in the domain of philosophy there are many “theoretical wildernesses” where “every viable theory is wild”.
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