Spinoza, part 2: Miracles and God’s will
Clare Carlisle: Spinoza's belief that miracles were an unexplained act of nature, not proof of God, proved dangerous and controversial
Spinoza, part 1: Philosophy as a way of life
Clare Carlisle: For this 17th century outsider, philosophy is like a spiritual practice, whose goal is happiness and liberation
Brian Simpson obituary
Leading academic lawyer in the field of legal history, legal philosophy and human rights
Mind may be more real than matter
Mark Vernon: Energy, information or something like consciousness may in fact be the real basic stuff of the cosmos
Malmesbury bids to become UK’s first ‘philosophy town’
Think carefully if you are considering heading to this corner of Wiltshire – the market town that gave us philosopher Thomas Hobbes is aiming to become Britain's capital of thought
Philosophy: an urban pursuit?
Clare Carlisle: Liverpool's Philosophy in the City festival is aiming to bring philosophical research out of academia and into urban life
Philippa Foot obituary
A 'grande dame of philosophy', she pioneered virtue ethics
The secret of ‘The Secret’
Mark Vernon: Can you really improve your life, and perhaps the world too, by your own inner effort?
Magic numbers: composers and their clandestine codes
Tom Service: Following in the footsteps of Plato and his Pythagorean undertones, composers have, over the centuries, used their own codes for the cognoscenti to decipher
Plato’s stave: academic cracks philosopher’s musical code
Historian claims Plato's manuscripts are mathematically ordered according to 12-note scale
Slavoj Žižek: interview
Sean O' Hagan meets Slavoj Žižek, Marxist provocateur and bestselling philosopher of the new left
Lord Quinton obituary
Oxford philosopher, Tory thinker and regular on popular Radio 4 panel shows
Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France
Letter stolen by notorious 19th-century book thief Guglielmo Libri had been gathering dust in a US college library
Hail the 21st-century Enlightenment. Ideas don’t come much bigger
Madeleine Bunting: We need to live very differently, argues a bold new text. And that calls for nothing less than a revolution of the mind
Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 3: Believer and doubter
Sarah Bakewell: How to believe: Montaigne's scepticism was of a very different breed to ours. For him, reason and evidence were as suspect as anything else