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Julian Baggini

British philosopher and writer; co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine; author of more than 20 books including The Ego Trick (2011) and How the World Thinks (2018).

5 books on the record · 26 Feb 2016 – 25 Mar 2023

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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A Question of Trust by Onora O’Neill

In A Question of Trust she’s talking about issues of trust in public life, which is still a big issue today.

on fivebooks.com · 25 Mar 2023 · Report

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Atheists by Nick Spencer

Yes, it’s Nick Spencer’s Atheists: the Origin of the Species.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Feb 2016 · Report

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Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

For them, people like me who say, ‘I like Sartre, I like Existentialism and Humanism’ are a bit like people who say ‘I really like Wagner, that ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ is a great tune,’ but have never sat through the Ring Cycle.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Feb 2016 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.