The Australian Literary Review reports on the hoax that has France's best loved public philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy, blushing.
When Levy attacked Immanuel Kant in his latest book, On War in Philosophy, he referred to a little-known 20th century philosopher, Jean-Baptiste Botul, to support his argument.
The only trouble is, Botul doesn't exist.
De la guerre en philosophie, Bernard-Henri Levy: Grasset
The Times Literary Supplement reviews Andrew Linzey's new book Why Animal Suffering Matters, which looks at the ethics of how humans use and treat animals.
The Director of the Centre for Animal Ethics echoes some of what our first Lunchbox/Soapbox advocate, Peter Singer, has argued
In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Singer likens greenhouse gas emissions to dropping bombs.
"We are harming people in Bangladesh almost as surely as if we were dropping bombs on them,” says Australia's best-known philosopher, who is talking at the Wheeler Centre in February.
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