Anthony Gottlieb
Former executive editor of the Economist and visiting fellow at Harvard University and All Souls College, Oxford. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times, and his books include The Dream of Enlightenment, and The Dream of Reason.
Former executive editor of the Economist and visiting fellow at Harvard University and All Souls College, Oxford. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times, and his books include The Dream of Enlightenment, and The Dream of Reason.
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Science and Religion
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In Place of Prejudice
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Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness
Beyond Good and Evil II
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True to Myself
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A Tale of Love and Hate
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Competition versus Cooperation
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Morality, Cruelty and Freedom
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Purity and Dirt
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The Nature of Evil
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Awake in the Universe
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Pagan Gods
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Ways to Truth
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A Touch of Evil
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The Exceptional Species
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Beyond Good and Evil
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The Good, the Bad and the Powerful
Manipulating Morality
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Bad to the Bone
Awake in the Universe (HTLGI 2010)
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Cycles of Wonder
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Love: All that matters
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Four Ways to Live Forever
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein | In-depth Interview
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Modern Crises and Ancient Gods
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Kate Kirkpatrick | In-depth Interview
On Simone de Beauvoir, existentialism, and beyond
The Hidden Science of Spirituality
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Susan Neiman | In-depth Interview
On Evil and its allure
Steven Pinker | In-depth Interview
On Human Nature, the Enlightenment and Beyond
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On metaethics, error theory and beyond.
Being Bad To Do Good
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The Morality of Pandemic
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Evil acts, good people
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Moments of Discovery
How do we decide on a moral system?
Church, State and Nietzsche
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Ideas to live and die by
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Living in the now
Spiritual practices and panpsychism
In Conversation with Michael Sandel
The Tyranny of Merit
Arc of life: Peter Singer
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The empathy trap
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Preparing for Utopia
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Beyond Us: Competition
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The Church's decline
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The corruption of science
An interview with Peter Atkins
The truth about lies
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Nature's memory
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Humanity beyond nature
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Being seen to be good
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The hypocrisy of the good
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The search for meaning
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Virtue and vice
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New gods and lost rituals
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Fantasy and the void
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Science, religion and the quest for reason
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The civilisation trap
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Kafka vs Camus
Can we change the world?
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Moral facts and moral fantasy
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Humans are not morally superior
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