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Peter Cave lectures for The Open University, UK. He studied philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge - and has held lecturing posts - and given guest lectures - abroad and in the UK.
Peter is chair of the British Humanist Association's Humanist Philosophers' Group and is often involved in public debates on philosophical, religious and political matters - including those of general public concern and everyday life.
Curiously for a philosopher, he is also a Chartered Financial Planner and is involved in setting financial examinations for the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Peter has scripted and presented humorous philosophy programmes for BBC Radio4 - and has written many light philosophy articles for a range of popular philosophy magazines. His academic interests focus on paradoxes, with papers appearing in academic philosophy journals, American Philosophical Quarterly, The Monist, Analysis etc.
Peter's recent books are the best-selling (in the UK) 2007 philosophy book, Can a Robot be Human: 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles (2007), and (2008) What's Wrong with Eating People? 33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles (both published in Oxford by Oneworld).
A more serious work is Humanism (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009) which, as well as challenging religious belief, looks at humanist stances on ethics and politics and the meaning of life, taking us from matters of abortion and euthanasia to life's absurdities. His latest book, with a slightly more academic tone, is This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes (London: Continuum 2009).
Peter lives in Soho, in central London, is developing an interest in opera and, although an atheist, he enjoys religious choral music - and is often to be found with a glass of wine in his hand, red or white, at The French.
