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...think they ought to be able to do. It suggests that religion is more like a hobby than a serious pursuit, and can lead to public acts of religion being seen as ‘extremism’. But this is not the only way of thinking about what religion is, and what the relationship between it and the state should be. [Religious toleration: church gate] Over to you What do you think the...

...think that if that is all it takes to be a philosopher then we are all philosophers. This seems to me an altogether happy conclusion: we all do philosophy at least some of the time. To put things another way, philosophy is an activity, rather than a body of knowledge. What kind of activity? Thinking. What kind of thinking? Here there does not seem to be any hard-and-fast...

...think that knowledge is more valuable than true opinion? This is one occasion on which Socrates breaks with his usual habits and offers an answer. Opinions, he says, are like the statues of Daedalus. Meno, understandably, asks what he means. You may have heard of Daedalus – a mythical inventor associated with the island of Crete. Perhaps the best-known story about him...

...thinking about the place of art in the Reformation. Since my PhD I have explored how Protestants used images and objects to express their faith and status. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I’m fascinated by how inanimate objects become so important to people, how we give them meaning and how they shape everyday lives. Early Modern period...