Combat, Play and Aesthetic Experience: Three Metaphors of Philosophy
Is philosophy a kind of play? Is it a kind of combat? Or is it a kind of aesthetic experience? Thoughts on Sarah Mattice and Michel Serres.
Philosophy, Writing and Wayward Curiosities from Will Buckingham
Is philosophy a kind of play? Is it a kind of combat? Or is it a kind of aesthetic experience? Thoughts on Sarah Mattice and Michel Serres.
I've got a piece in the latest Oh, Reader magazine, on reading in languages you know badly.
I'm doing a talk at the Pari Center, on wisdom, love and the task of philosophy
My children's book, The Snorgh and the Sailor, is now published in Polish translation.
I decided a couple of months back that my website needed a refresh, so I’ve been hard at work redesigning things from the ground up. If you are reading this, the new website is now live. So welcome on board! Things are still a bit rough at the …
Elee Kirk's brilliant study of education and childhood experience in museums is now available in Korean translation.
The Huainanzi, a fascinating Han dynasty guidebook for rulers, on resonance, non-action, charioteering, and how not to fall off a bicycle.
For the philosophers of the Nyāya school, the role of knowledge was to make effective action possible.
What are the fundamental questions in human life? And how can reading across different traditions enrich our sense of what questions might be fruitful to ask?