The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.
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Sunday 10 Dec 2017
The nature of Family could be more than a Christmas puzzle.
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Sunday 3 Dec 2017
When and why might it be ok to hate your colleague’s promotion?
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Sunday 26 Nov 2017
Philosophy and modern physics: a case of the irrelevant versus the impractical?
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Sunday 19 Nov 2017
Substance abuse lets you say ‘it wasn’t me’. Then who was it?
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Sunday 12 Nov 2017
Your midlife crisis: it’s more than you think.
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Sunday 5 Nov 2017
Is it just a coincidence that the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation falls on the same year that Britain is trying to 'Brexit'?
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Sunday 29 Oct 2017
Some of our best friends are animals. So where does that leave some humans we know?
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Sunday 22 Oct 2017
Would you trust a killer robot more than a banker? This philosopher does, and has his reasons.
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Sunday 15 Oct 2017
We’re told it’s a post-truth world—so what’s left of the philosophy of knowledge?
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Sunday 8 Oct 2017
Who am I? Glad you asked; now for two millennia of thinking.
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Sunday 1 Oct 2017
Race is the hot button term of our era. But perhaps the time has come to update it with a more accurate concept.
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Sunday 24 Sep 2017
The robots have given rise to a distinctly modern dilemma: is there such a thing as an immoral fantasy?
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Sunday 17 Sep 2017
Truth: a simple word that’s spawned a cosmos of theories, and caused a world of trouble.
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Sunday 10 Sep 2017
People claim to find modern transcendence in sport, at raves, or on Amazonian hallucinogens. But is it the real thing?
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