It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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According to conventional wisdom, religions are systems of belief. Religious people are “believers”. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead; Muslims believe that Mohammed was the final ...

A new translation of the work Simone Weil considered her greatest ...

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism (2002), ...

Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers. If you ask philosophers – those in the English speaking analytic tradition anyway – ...

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In 1885, William and James Lever, two brothers from Liverpool, started making soap. Within two decades, they were selling 60,000 tonnes of Lifebuoy and Lux soap in Britain. Their formula relied on ...

The day before the shutdown I went into our daughters’ school to teach philosophy. A number of teachers were absent, either because they had underlying health conditions or because they lived with ...