Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books including How The World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick, Freedom Regained (all Granta), and The Edge of Reason (Yale University Press). He was the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos, and Counterpoint. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent.