Dance and Philosophy in Tainan
Thinking about dance, metaphor and philosophy
Ibn Tufayl's philosophical fable about the evolution of reason and human culture
I'm doing a talk at the Pari Center, on wisdom, love and the task of philosophy
A Poem about ageing and loss, written by one of China’s greatest women poets, Li Qingzhao
Philosophy is the love of wisdom. But what about Foolishness?
Advice on writing from the most literary of all philosophers.
Creative luck is not just blind chance. It can be cultivated
A chapter on Liu Xie, and the myth of the suffering writer
The monoculture of the global academy, and the challenge of doing philosophy cross-culturally.
Contrasting thoughts on the metaphor of horse-training, from Buddhism and Daoism.
Exploring our relationships with strangers, through memoir, philosophy and anthropology.
An introduction to the lives and the thought of some of philosophy's greatest figures
A philosophical guide to the landscape of happiness.