Do you know your straw man arguments from your weasel words? Nigel Warburton (⁦Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine⁩) selects some of the best books on critical thinking & explains how they will help us make better informed decisions and construct more valid arguments. fivebooks.com/best-books/cri…

Public libraries provide important infrastructure for democracy

Everyday Philosophy: Why we need libraries (from 2022) ⁦The New European - Think Without Borders⁩ theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-philo…

UK public libraries need better funding. We’re relying on you ⁦Chris Bryant⁩ as libraries minister to reverse the decline theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Well over 100 of my Everyday Philosophy ⁦The New European - Think Without Borders⁩ columns are linked from this ⁦Authory⁩ site authory.com/NigelWarburton

The meanings of awkwardness ⁦⁦Alex Plakias⁩ ⁦Aeon Magazine⁩ aeon.co/essays/we-shou…

Honoured to be interviewed for today's de Volskrant. I have some copies of Leer denken als een filosoof which I will happily sign and send to Dutch readers in return for a donation to charity. DM me! buff.ly/3AXvG4e

Project 2025 is scary

In case you missed it: We've welcomed a new bill to remove the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. The next step should be to remove the Lords Spiritual. There should be no automatic seats in Parliament for any religion. humanists.uk/2024/09/05/lor…

Harris vs Trump: debate or debacle?

“This was the farewell: Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.” From “This was the farewell …” by Hannah Arendt, translated by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill, in our Fall issue. buff.ly/3z8UXYK

An admirably clear exposition of a Rawlsian vision of a free and equal society from Daniel Chandler this evening (even though Rawls doesn’t have all the answers or even all the questions) #voltairelecture

I’m old enough to remember that Hillary won the debates, too. I hope Kamala wiping the floor with him shifts the needle, but we’ll see.

Everyday Philosophy: some thoughts on autumn and ageing ⁦The New European - Think Without Borders⁩ app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/09/11/eve…

Cats are playing a surprisingly large role in the US presidential election. River is starting to pay attention…

'It lies within our power, if we so desire it, to make the familiar world we inhabit more worthy of habitation by beings who aspire to be rational and are capable of love.' Great words by the philosopher L. Susan Stebbing, our President 1941-1942. She died #OnThisDay 1943.

THEY'RE EATING THE HAPPY DOGS