Café de la Régence

  It is sometimes suggested that utilitarianism is apt to inadequately value people as individuals. If we are aiming to maximise utility acr...

(I have not read all of these cover-to-cover, to be clear -  Aeneid , Virgil (translated by Rolfe Humphries) I tried reading this couple of ...

I'm enjoying Joseph Heath's latest book, The Machinery of Government . It has particular relevance to me at present, as a UK civil s...

Context: I intend to listen to an interview with the author of  The Allure of Battle , and want to set my own views down first to note where...

There is an ancient problem in philosophy known as Agrippa's Trilemma, which many parents will have encountered with inquisitive childre...

Carthage. Carthage! It was a major trading post in the ancient world, founded in the location now known as Tunis by Phoenician(1) merchants,...

Trying to get back into the habit of blogging, mostly so that I'm writing more frequently. I'm not starting to write with well-forme...