Everyone knows an argument in philosophy is not the same as an argument in a car stuck in traffic on the way to the in-laws. It’s good to argue in the sense of providing a set of reasons, linked by a chain of reasoning, in support of a conclusion; bad to get caught up in a hot-headed fight. This is one argument, however, that I’m not entirely convinced by…
Latest column in the FT Weekend magazine (10/11 September)