Month: May 2007

Dumbsh*t Decisions

What kinds of stupid decisions are trivial enough to forgive? Can we have some rules please? See the Utah State philosophy blog at http://usuphilosophy.com/2007/05/22/forgiving-dumbsht-decisions/ for a rather interesting discussion.. News of the RPE Summer Meal, and a Summer…

Starting Out as a Philosopher (and A-levels)

Many people (in the UK) find their first taste of studying philosophy to be the AS /A2 Religious Studies courses – most notably the Philosophy & Ethics A Level options…. I thought it would be an interesting post…

Islamic Philosophy

Those of you studying the Islam module, RPE104, on the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course may be interested (as indeed all RPE students may well be) in the resources about Muslim philosophers and the influence of Islamic philosophy…

Yo…

Some of you will know what ‘Open Source’ software is – where the code is freely available, and people can amend it as they choose. But what about an Open Source religion? This is what Yoism claims to…

UC Berkeley Podcasts

Got access to iTunes? Go to http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ – go to their iTunes thing and look at the Arts and Humanities section for some really fantastic podcasts. Enjoy… Dave

Does Philosophy of Religion exist?

Google “Philosophy of Religion” and see what pops up…(or just click here)Look at key textbooks with the title (or click here) What you will note is the Theistic focus of the topics – the nature of God, arguments…

Philosophy Talk Radio

Philosophy Talk – a radio show co-hosted in the USA and Australia – has an archive of its chirpy but intriguing discussions online. I have just enjoyed the one at http://philosophytalk.org/pastShows/MoralDilemmas.htm – which should be of interest to…

Zencast…

Students on the RPE202 Buddhism module may find the podcasts at http://amberstar.libsyn.com/ of interest.. Or maybe some Zen Radio at http://www.wzen.org/ Enjoy…Dave