23 October 2008
What is love? We have been talking about this at length in RPE301 – Love, Sex and Death: so I thought students of that course may be interested in this week’s episode of ‘Imagine’ from the BBC: view…
21 October 2008
The BBC reports, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7681139.stm that Nebraska has changed its laws – so that you can no longer ‘dump’ unwanted children on the state. The limit has been altered to only 3-days old – but before that it…
15 October 2008
We had a good turnout for our firsting meeting as The Philosophy Society. Jess prepared some excellent minutes which I will email to those on the mailing list. If you are not on the mailing list and would…
12 October 2008
As we watch the Dow Jones and the FTSE100 plummet, you can track the ethical ratings of Corporations at http://www.covalence.ch/ . As their website says Geneva-based Covalence tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals by sourcing information from companies,…
6 October 2008
I’ve been speaking today to the Centre for Ethics here in Missoula, at the University of Montana, about the purpose of teaching Ethics as an academic subject. Some of the points we discussed were:¢ In an ethics class…
2 October 2008
There is an interesting post on the ethical issues surrounding dementia at http://www.philosophycirencester.blogspot.com/ – some of you might like to head over there to comment… Dave
1 October 2008
We had an exciting response to The Philosophy Society at the Freshers’ Fayre. Over 70 people expressed interest and want to be included on the mailing list. All those (bar two – because their email addresses were disabled)…