12 December 2010
Need a break when reading/studying? Only if you think you do…Philosophy News reports that: Stanford researchers find that the “need” for study breaks has less to do with our biology and more to do with our beliefs. “If you…
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…
9 January 2008
Philosophy seems more popular in Schools than ever. [As noted HERE by Nigel Warburton] In Scotland, the Herald newspaper has considered this – causing a number of its online readers to comment HERE about the value of philosophy….
10 July 2007
I note that at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/why_phil.html there is a set of for/against arguments dealing with this topic – and links to the many University Departments who offer a rationale for such studies. At Elon University, Nim Batchelor has a…
14 February 2007
This post is to ask our students (and others) what skills they think are important in the study of Religion, Philosophy & Ethics. While it is initially for current students to reflect on what they did well/badly in…