As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.