One of the pens behind the press
Ivo Brandt
Philosophy and big ideas ยท Old questions in plain language
Ivo takes the questions people have been arguing about for two thousand years and puts them in the language of an ordinary afternoon. Each chapter sets out the strongest version of a position he disagrees with before laying a finger on it. He is more interested in why a question refuses to go away than in settling it for good. Will cheerfully ruin a dinner party with a thought experiment.
6 books in print · 10 journal pieces
PhilosophySelf ImprovementNovel & FictionPsychologyPolitics & GovernmentMystery & Thriller
Books by Ivo Brandt
Yesterday Has a Vote
Identity, Change, and the Person You Become
Nobody Gets the Whole Cake
Fairness, Need, and the Things We Share
Good Reasons to Hesitate
A Philosophy of Doubt, Choice and Changing Your Mind
An Orchard for Strangers
A Novel of Home, Inheritance, and the People Still to Come
A Chair for the Other Side
Twelve Questions That Make Room for a Better Argument
A Beautifully Wrong Answer
A Novel of Truth, Comfort, and the Stories We Choose
Ivo Brandt in the journal
- Stay True to Which Self?
- Who Should Get the Last Slice?
- In Defence of the Honest Pause
- A reader asks whether there is any point reading a book you know you will disagree with
- Seven ordinary minutes that are really old questions in disguise
- Why we do the very thing we have already decided not to do
- The Nobel Prize in Physics is announced today, and most of the work is already old
- You are not the person who made the promise
- In praise of changing your mind
- SpaceX, the seven hundredth launch, and what we did to wonder