Articles
A collection of my recent articles.
Curriculum and exam reform at 16 and 18 in England
All agree that the current system is wrong – but what to do? March 2023.
Library
The following items may be of interest to new and aspiring philosophers.
Kay and King: Radical Uncertainty
Two giants of UK academic economics and finance have written an important book about what is wrong with our approach to finance today. In summary: a reliance on ‘too much maths and models’, and not enough thinking about ‘what is really going on here’. Here I explain in 500 words what they are concerned about, and why I believe they are correct.
The Social Contract
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract. A key idea in political philosophy, it states that political authority is held through a contract with those to be ruled.
Philosophy Bites: AC Grayling on Descartes' Cogito
Anthony Grayling, author of a recent biography of René Descartes, explores Descartes' Cogito argument, the pivotal argument of the Meditations, in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.