23 January 2009
On Tuesday 28th April 2009, the Department of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire will host its annual Islam conference. This year the topic is: SHI’ISM:PAST ANDPRESENT The event will be held at:TC001 – Tiered Lecture Theatre, FCH…
22 January 2009
Those of you studying our Indian Religions module may wish to visit http://r-p-e.blogspot.com/2007/02/buddhism-podcast-2-four-noble-truths.html to download a podcasst of my reading the Mahasatipatthana Sutta, about the Four Noble Truths. Hope this is useful – and that you enjoy the…
20 January 2009
What are rights? Can they only be ascribed to human beings or also to animals… the environment… inanimate objects? Jonathon Wolff, Christopher Stone and Kenan Malik discuss these questions on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Law in Action’ programme. It…
19 January 2009
Hi,We will be looking at the film The Seventh Seal in class today.Look at http://course1.winona.edu/pjohnson/h140/seal.htm for some ideas (see list of questions near base of the page) – and make comment via this blog post. Other ideas are…
13 January 2009
Following RPE201 (Philosophy, Science and Belief)- many of us have been talking about related issues – – I thought this video might then be pertinent..D. http://s3.amazonaws.com/seedplayer/seedPlayer_320x240.swf?xmlURL=http://s3.amazonaws.com/RevMinds/data/revminds_tracey_brown_e.xml&width=320&height=240&autoPlay=0
13 January 2009
We have discussed this previously – see HERE and HERE to look at what we came up with – but I wanted to raise it with a new ‘batch’ of students – our current first year cohort. I…
12 January 2009
The Philosophy Society is hotting up with enthusiastic responses to the reading (along with many other topics). Next month’s reading is Machiavelli’s The Prince. It promises to be an invigorating topic: cruelty, evil, politics, being misunderstood, Nietzsche’s Ubermensch….
8 January 2009
We are pleased to announce the start of a series of research seminars in Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, in Cheltenham. Religion, Philosophy & Ethics: Research Seminar Series Wednesday, 21st January 2009, 6pm –…
7 January 2009
Some of you may be interested in a new website from our esteemed colleague, and poet, Dr Nigel McLouglhin. Nigel is Reader in Creative Writing, and Course Leader for the University’s MA in Creative & Critical Writing.You can…
6 January 2009
Those who enjoyed RPE201 (Philosophy, Science and Belief) may enjoy the piece at http://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/expect-the-unexpected/ which discusses how to make sense of the role of anomalous results / findings in the context of Kuhn’s thought. It also makes reference…