23 May 2011
Stephen Hawking, in a Telegraph piece this morning, declares that Philosophy is dead: But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy…
8 February 2011
A new philosophy e-journal, The Philosopher’s Stone, has been launched. It is early days yet as it is currently looking for contributions for the first issue. It states the following: ‘The Philosopher’s Stone is an online journal of…
27 October 2010
There has been a lot of news coverage over the shooting of the red deer stag known as the Emperor of Exmoor. I have been to Exmoor many times and have seen the hunters out with their guns…
13 October 2010
Students across RPE, but especially those on RPE301 (Love, Sex and Death) may be interested in the following talk, offered by Gloucestershire Philosophical Society: Wed. Nov. 10th 7.30.p.m. FCH Room HC203. Dr.Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor, University of Warwick….
15 September 2010
Famous Liverpool Sophists Those misguided amongst you who thought Athens was the birthplace of philosophy are wrong: it was Liverpool (remember Plato’s Cavern?), and to celebrate this fact there is a two-week Philosophy in the City festival which…
28 June 2010
http://conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca16as3a Heavy Fundametalisms: Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation 8 to 10 November 2010Prague, Czech Republic Now THAT is a conference topic! Wish I could go…Would like to do something on NWOBHM, but not…
21 April 2010
A re-enactment of the Monty Python philosopher’s football match is taking place on Sunday May 9th at West Finchley, North London and will see the Greeks take on the Germans. The players will include many notable philosophers, comedians,…
16 April 2010
Anna Saunders will give a talk on: Philosophy for Children (P4C) Wednesday 21st April at 4pm FCH TC006A All Welcome PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN, or P4C for short, was the title Professor Matthew Lipman gave to his project of…
19 February 2010
I noticed our local cinema is showing The Last Station which is about the last year of Leo Tolstoy’s life. Tolstoy is played by Christopher Plummer and his wife is played by Helen Mirren. The names of these…