Two new lives of St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas fail to straightforwardly present the legacies of these two hugely influential figures

The neuroscience of human nature now treats mind and body as a single integrated entity

Thanks to his leap of faith, this gloomy Dane has been neglected by the intelligentsia

Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead

Martin Heidegger's apparent denazification after the — with the help of Jewish lover Hannah Arendt — requires further examination

Noel Malcolm's magisterial new edition of Hobbes's Leviathan is a fine example of why, in the 21st century, scholarship still matters

Alan Ryan’s colossal new history of political thought is an ambitious but engaging piece of scholarship

Richard Dawkins cannot grasp the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. This puts him at war not only with religion, but the entire tradition of Western philosophy

The financial crisis has produced a new wave of young libertarians but these radicals champion freedom over and above virtue

The Wealth of Nations should not be seen as separate from Smith's moral philosophy — it itself is a profoundly moral text