16 March 2013
A version of the ethical dilemma about a runaway tram / trolley car. What would YOU do? [I also received another topic via email from a teacher this week – about Philosophy of Religion – I’ll be videoing…
15 November 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6d5drvFMVs A group of our new first-year students were asked to give a presentation on one philosopher talking in the film The Examined Life. This group chose Peter Singer, and produced a film of their own!
21 September 2012
Thanks for the presentations this morning. Very interesting and enjoyable…and I like this video! Well done all.
3 December 2010
A new film society for FCH has been launched showing films related to a monthly theme every Monday evening. The theme for December is Conscience and the first screening, the Hitchcock film Rope, will be shown Monday 6th…
28 July 2010
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&videoId=world/2010/07/28/goodman.lok.spain.bullfight.cnn So here we have a clear contrast between claims for cultural value, and claims of universal animal rights… – how do we disentangle them? Fox news (!) has a view HERE and the usual BBC Have Your…
3 December 2009
I am not that interested in professional football; the cultural imperative for all men to attend with irrational gusto to the minutiae of its details leaves me cold, and feeling distanced from it. Nonetheless, I was struck by…
12 October 2009
Ethical advice via podcast?“Randy Cohen, Times Magazine columnist, answers readers’ questions on ethical issues each week.” I enjoyed some – but the phrase “Cake-free workplace”? : only in America… d.
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…
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…
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…