In the brave new cost-benefit world of university cuts, how will Philosophy fare? While knowing your Wittgenstein might not generate huge sums for the national economy, studying philosophy does impart marketable skills. Still, the subject's ultimate value surely resides in less quantifiable goods...

Norman Wisdom once observed that "People will always find the sight of someone falling or spilling something funny." He's probably right, but why is that? Prospect’s resident philosopher investigates philosophy's underwhelming attempts to get to grips with comedy 

As Tate Modern prepares to unveil its blockbuster exhibition, “Gauguin: maker of myth”, Prospect’s resident philosopher considers what role luck plays in moral judgement. Had Gauguin been an artistic failure, would he have been a worse person?

Prospect's resident philosopher looks at natural disasters and the arguments for and against an ll-powerful, all-loving God. Might the science of global warming prove a paradoxical victory for true believers?

Prospect's resident philosopher Nigel Warburton looks at authenticity and fakery in art, and asks whether a Botticelli by any other name can look as beautiful

Prospect's resident philosopher Nigel Warburton explains why a vacation may be the perfect time to start reading philosophy: and why some unlikely reading may help the rest of life make a little more sense too

Nigel Warburton on the unenviable position of being envied

Prospect's resident philosopher examines the nature of excuses in the light of Jean Paul Sartre, JL Austin and the Catholic church's recent scandals.

In his April podcast for Prospect, Nigel Warburton considers the philsoophical status of a promise in the context of Kant, Machiavelli and Britain's wannabe prime-ministers

Nigel Warburton's March philosophy column for Prospect explores the friction between law and religion via Kant, Kierkegaard and Britain's first Asian judge