Richard Osborne is a philosopher and writer with special interests in Art, Technology and contemporary culture. He is the author of several internationally best-selling works including Philosophy for Beginners, Freud for Beginners, Introducing Sociology and Megawords, a cultural dictionary for the humanities. He has also written extensively on Philosophy and culture in a wide range of journals from Oslo to Osaka, including work on Art and the Mass Media; and also penned The Universe, a history of scientific thinking of ideas of the Universe, which was published in the UK and America. Richard currently teaches at the University of the Arts in London.