19 February 2010
Dr Alan Kirby will be giving a talk on ‘The Arguable Death of Postmodernism, and Beyond?’ at Francis Close Hall, room TC006b on Thursday 25th February at 5.30. All welcome.
17 January 2010
I recently received an email requesting contributions for a book on Avatar and Philosophy. I’m not averse to contributing to these ‘popular culture’ books, and I have contributed in the past, but Avatar? Nice effects, I admit, even…
11 September 2009
I always knew this was the case, of course. A new comicbook (or graphic novel) called ‘Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth’ has just been published by Bloomsbury. Described as: ‘it’s the story of the quest for the…
28 August 2009
Now that is exciting.. The Single Honours Philosophy map is now online. Be AMAZED by the new modules; be ASTOUNDED by the route requirements and compulsory courses; be slightly troubled by the enthusiasm of the staff… In case…
22 July 2009
Some changes to let people know about this summer… Some minor changes to the RPE Course have taken place, and we have also launched a straight Philosophy programme as well. The role of Course Leader has passed from…
18 May 2009
How The Light Gets In is the UK’s first philosophy and music festival in Hay on-Wye which runs over the same ten days, 22-31 May, as the Hay Literary Festival. For the first time ever in the UK,…
1 May 2009
Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosopher’s Magazine and previous speaker at our University, has launched a new monthly podcast which is available on iTunes. Episode 1 featured a talk with the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks and Julian’s visit…
27 April 2009
The Guardian online has an excellent site where various experts provide infomed comment on philosophy texts. Giles Fraser has written comments on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, Julian Baggini on Hume’s views on religion, and currently Mary Midgeley is…
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…