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411A review of Michael's Sandel's book, "What Money Can't Buy" (Allen Lane 2012)
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373One substance, many voters (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 50 (Q3): 125-126. 2010.Review of Jonathan Israel, "A Revolution of the Mind" (Princeton University Press, 2010).
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298Review of Jesse Norman, "Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet" (William Collins, 2013)
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231Profit in Ignorance (review)Times Literary Supplement 5898. 2016.A review of Boudewijn de Bruin's book, "Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis - Why incompetence is worse than greed"
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221A review of Michael Ignatieff's book, 'Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics', published by Harvard University Press, 2013
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198Fools or Knaves (review)Times Literary Supplement 5845. 2015.A review of Morris & Vines, "Capital Failure" and Tom Malleson, "After Occupy".
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138A review of Martin Jay's book, "Reason After Its Eclipse", published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2016.
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88A paper that discusses Hume's essay "Of Suicide"
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73Defending Democracy (review)Times Literary Supplement 6308. 2024.A review of two recent English translations of work by Jurgen Habermas.
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66Teaching Jurisprudence in NamibiaThe Philosophers' Magazine 46 (Q3): 14-17. 2009.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.
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53My Goodness: Understanding the Effective Altruism Movement (review)Times Literary Supplement 6207. 2022.A review of Larry Temkin's critique of effective altruism.
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49Hope Without Belief (review)Times Literary Supplement 6163. 2021.The Frankfurt School addresses the anxieties of modernity.
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47Edward Craig The Mind of God and the Works of Man Oxford; Oxford University Press, pp. 353 (review)Hegel Bulletin 9 (1): 32-35. 1988.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.
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39A 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
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33A talk on the philosophical implications of Charles Darwin's work.
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31On Human Rights (review)Democratiya 15 115-122. 2008.A review of James Griffin's book, "On Human Rights", published by Oxford University Press in 2008
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19The Mind of God and the Works of Man (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 17. 1988.A review of Edward Craig's book, "The Mind of God and the Works of Man", published by Oxford University Press in 1987
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15A talk on the relationship between religon (and especially Lutheranism) and politics (and especially democracy)
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13Teaching jurisprudence in NamibiaThe Philosophers' Magazine 46 14-17. 2009.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 the law. This role is today increasingly under challenge from the growing importance of constitutional law.
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13A review of T J Clark's "The Sight of Death", published by Yale University Press in 2006.
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E Craig's The Mind Of God And The Words Of Man (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 17 32-35. 1988.
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Used Furniture: the injustice of inheritance (review)TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 6053. 2019.A review of Daniel Halliday's book, The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, equality, and the right to bequeath, (Oxford University Press, 2018).