Peter Cave

Peter Cave is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and Chair of Humanist Philosophers. His philosophy books include This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes, and three Beginner's Guides: to Humanism, Philosophy and Ethics. More recent works are The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems, The Myths We Live By: A Contrarian’s Guide to Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Fictions, and How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live, now available from Bloomsbury. Find out more at PhilosophyCave.com.

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The Well

Few of us desire true equality. It’s time to own up to it

Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling “Land of Justice.”

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Thinking

To think like the philosopher Descartes, throw out all your beliefs and start over

Descartes broke from the European philosophers who preceded him and devised a new way of considering humanity and the world.