It is natural to adopt a cynical view of the global climate change conference now taking place outside Paris. Behind the noble public declarations self-interest is ruthlessly asserted in the private negotiating rooms. Rules are bent, scrutiny is resisted and numbers are manipulated to hide emissions.

Yet...

In their recent book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg argue that “the reputation risk that flows from an association with (greenhouse gas) pollution has...

For anyone who follows the contemporary philosophical scene, and has not decided they know enough to not want to know any more, the debates concerning Martin Heidegger’s Nazism are pretty unhappy fare.

Yet Heidegger’s decision to publish his notebooks, the so-called Black Books in 2014,...