

Umberto Eco and the power of reading
It all started with seeing my mother every night going to bed with a book or a magazine. Her education had to stop with the primary...
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The West and the Rest
Is there such a thing as Western culture, society, philosophy? While listening to a podcast on African philosophy, I couldn't help but...
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The cognitive self
20th-century philosopher Michel Foucault, rather than concentrate on one subject he sought to gather wisdom from the study of, well,...
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A Cycling Odyssey: first cycling trip abroad, part 2
May 2006 The journey to Genoa had been a long but ultimately thrilling one, with the ride around the starting location of stage 6 of the...
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A Cycling Odyssey: first cycling trip abroad, part 1
May 2006 Given how much we had enjoyed our experience in Bath before Christmas, Mike, Sam and I agreed it was time for some serious...
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