Julian Baggini's books include the Sunday Times bestselling How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy, Freedom Regained, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick Welcome to Everytown, What's It All About? and the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, all published by Granta Books. He is the Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and has written for, among others, the Guardian, the TLS, the Financial Times and Prospect, and for magazines, academic journals and think tanks. His website is microphilosophy.net.