Examines the history of the moral "trolley" problem, discussing why philosphers have struggled with the ethical dilemma the problem describes, and how each individual's answer indicates a great deal a
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding d
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. In Rousseau's Dog, David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitt
From the bestselling authors of Wittgenstein's Poker, the quarrel that shocked the world of Enlightenment. It is a story of two men whose writings would forever shape our world, but whose personalitie
At the centre of the story stand the philosophers themselves, proud, irascible, larger than life, and spoiling for a fight.'Those ten minutes shook the world of Western philosophy literally to its fou
But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive - and apparently unstoppable. Against him was Boris Spassky: co
