Mark Hannam

A review of Larry Temkin's critique of effective altruism.

The Frankfurt School addresses the anxieties of modernity.

A review of two recent English translations of work by Jurgen Habermas.

A review of Daniel Halliday's book, The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath, (Oxford University Press, 2018).

A review of Edward Craig's book, The Mind of God and the Works of Man (1987), which sets out Craig's argument that the work of individual philosophers can only be properly understood through our familiarity with the intellectual environment in which they worked. To put this more generally, that philosophy takes place within a definite intellectual context, and that the history of ideas is necessary to understand the aims, methods, and blind-spots of this intellectual context.

A review of Boudewijn de Bruin's book, "Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis - Why incompetence is worse than greed"

A review of Martin Jay's book, "Reason After Its Eclipse", published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2016.

Review of Jonathan Israel, "A Revolution of the Mind" (Princeton University Press, 2010).

A talk on the philosophical implications of Charles Darwin's work.

A review of T J Clark's "The Sight of Death", published by Yale University Press in 2006.

A review of Morris & Vines, "Capital Failure" and Tom Malleson, "After Occupy".

In Namibia, as in many other parts of Africa, customary law continues to play an important role for ordinary people, by setting the framework of behaviour that the law expects of them and, in return, what protections they can expect from laws. This role is today increasingly under challenge from the growing importance of constitutional law.

A paper that discusses Hume's essay "Of Suicide"

A review of Michael's Sandel's book, "What Money Can't Buy" (Allen Lane 2012)

A talk on the relationship between religon (and especially Lutheranism) and politics (and especially democracy)

A review of Edward Craig's book, "The Mind of God and the Works of Man", published by Oxford University Press in 1987

Review of Jesse Norman, "Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet" (William Collins, 2013)

A review of James Griffin's book, "On Human Rights", published by Oxford University Press in 2008

A talk on the morality of money lending, which looks at three different approaches to the problem of usury: political regulation, religious prohibition and economic toleration

A review of Michael Ignatieff's book, 'Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics', published by Harvard University Press, 2013