For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on ...

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting ...

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...