Plato: ancient Greek philosopher's 'secret music code' cracked by British scientists
Researchers claimed they cracked “The Plato Code”, the long disputed secret messages hidden in some of Ancient World’s most influential and celebrated writings. Read more…
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Philosopher whose distinctive voice stood above the fray

Brian O'Shaughnessy, who has died aged 84, was one of philosophy's most distinctive voices. An Australian long resident in Britain, where he retired from full-time teaching at King's College London in 1991, he remained at the height of his intellectual powers right up to his death. Last year he published a [...]

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It may seem surprising that so many books continue to be written debating Martin Heidegger’s Nazi affiliations, since the fact that Heidegger was a Nazi has never been in dispute. How could it be, when the great philosopher took office as rector of Freiburg University in April 1933 specifically in order to carry out the Gleichschaltung, [...]

One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development. Julian Young, a professor at the University of Auckland and Wake Forest University, has for the most part avoided this trap by writing a [...]

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Empiricism, England’s greatest contribution to philosophy. Listen here…
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Antony Flew, an English philosopher and outspoken atheist who stunned and dismayed the unbelieving faithful when he announced in 2004 that God probably did exist, died April 8 in Reading, England. He was 87 and lived in Reading. Read more…
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It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry. Read more…

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