Philosophy

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Dance and Philosophy in Tainan

Dance and Philosophy in Tainan

Thinking about dance, metaphor and philosophy

Purple Mangoes

Purple Mangoes

On Zhuangzi, Death and Meaning

The Philosopher Raised by a Gazelle

The Philosopher Raised by a Gazelle

Ibn Tufayl's philosophical fable about the evolution of reason and human culture

Yijing Paper Awarded First Prize

Yijing Paper Awarded First Prize

A prize for a recent philosophy paper

Love in the Time of Crisis: At the Pari Center

Love in the Time of Crisis: At the Pari Center

I'm doing a talk at the Pari Center, on wisdom, love and the task of philosophy

Good and Evil in Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism

Good and Evil in Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism

Writing for RE Today

Spring, Like Us, Grows Old

Spring, Like Us, Grows Old

A Poem about ageing and loss, written by one of China’s greatest women poets, Li Qingzhao

The Opposite of Wisdom: A Fool's Philosophy  (Wisdom #6)

The Opposite of Wisdom: A Fool's Philosophy (Wisdom #6)

Philosophy is the love of wisdom. But what about Foolishness?

Nietzsche’s Ten Commandments for Writers

Nietzsche’s Ten Commandments for Writers

Advice on writing from the most literary of all philosophers.

Soft Work: Notes Towards a Manifesto

Soft Work: Notes Towards a Manifesto

Don't work harder. Work softer.

Serendipity: Cultivating the Art of Creative Luck

Serendipity: Cultivating the Art of Creative Luck

Creative luck is not just blind chance. It can be cultivated

Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy

A chapter on Liu Xie, and the myth of the suffering writer

The Hard Cross-Cultural Problem in Philosophy

The Hard Cross-Cultural Problem in Philosophy

The monoculture of the global academy, and the challenge of doing philosophy cross-culturally.

Two Tales of Horse-Training

Two Tales of Horse-Training

Contrasting thoughts on the metaphor of horse-training, from Buddhism and Daoism.

Boredom, Flow and the Eggs of Experience

Boredom, Flow and the Eggs of Experience

Boredom, creativity and Walter Benjamin

The Rhetoric of Urgency

The Rhetoric of Urgency

Why so urgent?

Knowledge and Friendship at the End of the World

Knowledge and Friendship at the End of the World

On Tove Jansson and the apocalypse

Hello, Stranger

Hello, Stranger

Exploring our relationships with strangers, through memoir, philosophy and anthropology.

Philosophy - A Visual Encyclopedia

Philosophy - A Visual Encyclopedia

A big, beautiful encyclopedia of philosophy

Finding Our Sea-Legs

Finding Our Sea-Legs

A book about ethics, storytelling and philosophy.

Philosophers - Their Lives and Works

Philosophers - Their Lives and Works

An introduction to the lives and the thought of some of philosophy's greatest figures

A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish

A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish

A philosophical guide to the landscape of happiness.

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

Telling stories is a troubling business...

The Philosophy Book

The Philosophy Book

The global bestseller with over 7 million copies sold!