27 February 2009
Nigel Warburton published Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction this month. http://www.vsi-free-speech.com/ With coincidental timing, last week the Home Office refused Geert Wilders entrance into the UK. Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and famous for…
26 February 2009
103 and 107Please try and get your presentation groups and topics to me ASAP…I would like to start the presentations next week (Week 9) but this might be unrealistic. If we only start in Week 10, all of…
21 February 2009
Because some of you have been missing lectures, I have been getting emails asking for links to the readings we will be doing for the rest of the course. So here they are: Anslem’s Ontological Argument: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anselm-critics.html Thoreau’s…
13 February 2009
Each group must choose one of the following papers (or excerpts of text) for their presentation/written work combo. There is enough choice for every group to do something different, so we will work on a “first tell Carl…
10 February 2009
A 33-year-old Californian, single mom, Nadya Suleman, gave birth to octuplets 27th January 2009. She already had six children ranging in ages from two to seven. All fourteen children were conceived using infertility treatments. She states, “That was…
6 February 2009
Well, chaos here due to snow and ice (we can’t cope in the UK with this weather) meaning two days of cancelled lectures, and a conference tomorrow. Nonetheless, the results of the ‘Worst Argument’ competition will be announced…
4 February 2009
Due to weather conditions the Philosophy Society will be cancelled tomorrow night. Everybody now has another month to read Machiavelli’s The Prince, slim in size but broad in content. The next meeting will be Thursday, 5th March. Look…
3 February 2009
Students wishing to come on the trip to Cordoba (all three years, not just those on OTC136) can now book – we need you to book flights and pay the deposit by the 12th of Feb though:If you…
2 February 2009
Click here: http://r-p-e.blogspot.com/2008/12/britains-worst-argument.html if you are looking for the ‘worst argument’ competition: we will be announcing a winner around the end of this week..CheersDave
1 February 2009
An interesting video here – from Yale – on the Fear of Death: Maybe I should adopt the cross-legged, converse-and-jeans look for my RPE301 lectures?Dave http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4017394718881240119&hl=en&fs=true