Dr Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. He has a PhD on the philosophy of personal identity and is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including The Ego Trick, Welcome to Everytown, Freedom Regained (all Granta) and, most recently, The Edge of Reason (Yale University Press)

He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has also appeared as a character in two Alexander McCall-Smith novels.

His website is www.microphilosophy.net

On Twitter @microphilosophy
Related Sessions
Saturday 17 October 2015, 12.00 Cinema 3
Saturday 17 October 2015, 17.30 Garden Room

Publications

The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World (Yale University Press 2016)
Freedom Regained: The possibility of Free Will (Granta 2016)

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