The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

The corpse of Jeremy Bentham was presented in Lost season 3, episodes 22 and 23, "Through the Looking Glass," though only a ...

Jeremy Bentham, inset, and his ‘Auto-Icon’ (Picture: Getty) What happens to your body when you die?. Well, if you’re a mildly eccentric 19th century philosopher and social reformer who cares ...

Bentham's real head, on one of its rare public outings, in 2017. Where is Jeremy Bentham now? The philosopher is now in a much more visible location in the atrium of UCL's Student Centre.

Jeremy Bentham distinguished between what he called “derogatory” and “eulogistic” words, in short between “boo” and “hurray” ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given ...