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Martin McQuillan
Literary theorist, cultural critic, author of Deconstructing Disney.
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, McQuillan’s books include Deconstruction After 9/11and Roland Barthes, or the Profession of Cultural Studies.

Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, McQuillan’s books include Deconstruction After 9/11and Roland Barthes, or the Profession of Cultural Studies.
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Philosophy vs Science
On reason and the search for truth

The Reality Illusion
Has perception evolved to trick us?

On Language and Logic
Why language dominates philosophy

Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently
Can philosophy change how we think?

The Word and the World
What are the limits of language?

The Edge of Reality
Where mathematical metaphors meet reality

The Future of the Post-Truth World
Is the era of objective truth over?

Stories to Change the World
On rhetoric, meaning and language

The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

Making Sense of Reality
Do we see what they tell us to see?

Beyond Experience
What is the nature of reality?

Thinking Across the World
Julian Baggini | Non-western philosophy traditions

Lies and Beauty
Is lying somehow essential to our lives?

The Limits of My World
Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?

In the Beginning Was the Word
Is the world dependent on language?

Language and the World
How does language describe the world?

How do you solve a problem like uncertainty?
A new paradigm of risk

Limits of Thought: John McWhorter and Stanley Fish
Can we think outside of language?

Truth and Beauty
Do beautiful theories really explain the world?

Dreaming the Future
Utopia and the Limits of Thought

Limits of Language
Can we find the right words for everything?

The Known, The Strange and the New
Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Beyond the Machine
Metaphors of the body

Heraclitus' Dream
Are particles or processes fundamental?

Unnatural Laws
Are eternal laws an illusion?

Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense

After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity

The Secrets of the World
Can we have a complete description of reality?
Thinking Differently
Language, gender and sexuality

The Laughing Philosopher
Does comedy hold the key to truth and morality?

Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world

Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?

Plato Not Prozac
Philosophy's therapeutic power

Fantasy and Reality
Should we 'get real' or embrace fantasy?

The Sex Lives of Philosophers
And what they tell us about their ideas

Fantasies and Lies
Are myths dangerous?

The End of Ideas
Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual?

The Ultimate Map of Reality
Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?

Thinking the Unthinkable
The limits of thought

After Postmodernity

Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?

The Elegant Universe
Is truth always simple?

Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?

Beyond Truth and Falsehood
What is real?

Stranger Than We Think
Do supernatural beliefs reflect the limits of human understanding?

Dangerously Big Ideas
Do we need grand theories?

This Debate Has No Title
Solving the self-referential paradox

God's Map
Charting the universe

The Call of Silence
The route to understanding

I Think Therefore Iamb
Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?
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The Politics of Pleasure

Literary Bad Sex

Conquer Your Love!

What Are Love and Sex? Eight Answers from Philosophy

On Being Naked and Having Sex

Why Sexual Morality Doesn't Exist

Being With Others

Sex, Lies and Revolution

Prostitution and the Right to Choose

What Do You Do When You're Alone

Decoupling sex

The Good Life in the 21st Century: Living Single

Zhana Vrangalova on The Science of Good Sex

The Phenomenology of Desire and Orgasm

Legislating Love

The Boundaries of the Body

The changing face of love

Infidelity: A Stoic's Perspective

Porn and the sexual imagination

Manufacturing Love

Love Incorporated

Divorce is the New Death

Simone de Beauvoir on incel extremism

Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power

The Sexuality of Asexuality

Love is close to madness

The unexpected intimacy of sex work

Philosophy is an erotic endeavor

Change your self, change your friends

The limits of consent