MISCELLANY

Recasting the “scientism” debate  (download book chapter)
From “Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology,
and Theology”,
edited by Stephen R. Grimm. Oxford University Press, 2019

“Candide” and Leibniz’s garden
Did Candide’s garden come from Leibniz? A speculative scholarly footnote
Voltaire Foundation blog, 3 February 2015

The beauty of Queen Mary’s dolls’ house
An interview about a favourite object
Gilded Birds, August 2014

Believe it or not (download book chapter)
The world will have more believers in 2050, but the secular will still eventually inherit
the Earth
From “Megachange: The World in 2050”, edited by Daniel Franklin. Profile Books, 2012

What some philosophical terms ought to mean (but don’t)
Misdefinitions contributed to the “Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy”
2009

Bertrand Russell as a historian of philosophy (download book introduction)
Published in the Collectors’ Edition of Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy
Routledge, 2009

Japes of the great
Almost every statement is false in this review of a non-existent book:
“April is the Cruellest Month: The History and Meaning of All Fools’ Day,” purportedly by
Erich Merkwürdigliebe
The Economist, 2 April 1988

Too bard to be true
An article about a sonnet that it is possibly by Shakespeare, in the form of a sonnet that is
certainly not by Shakespeare
The Economist, 30 November 1985