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Jonny Thomson
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a columnist at Big Think and is the award-winning, bestselling author of three books that have been translated into 22 languages.
Jonny is also the founder of Mini Philosophy, a social network of around two million curious, intelligent minds. He's known all over the world for making philosophy accessible, relatable, and fun.
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For some people, the emotional pull of fictional characters is profoundly strong.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche's legacy.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
Socrates is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy," but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.