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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. The comments…
Since 2000 Open Court publishers (and Blackwells in the UK republishing them) have been putting out a series entitled Philosophy and Popular Culture. The first one I saw (as I unwrapped it one Christmas) was The Simpsons and Philosophy: The…
We will be meeting this evening (Tuesday 6th November) at 6pm in Bar Ha Ha in Montpellier to discuss Sartre’s Nausea. Even if you haven’t finished the book yet (or even started to read it!) you would still be more…
I don’t want to sound too much like an advert for In Our Time, but the latest programme – which can be dowloaded – is particularly relevent considering the recent lively discussion on guilt. Do you think Melvyn saw the…
Are atheists the unsung heroes of the modern age? You may have read in the papers that ‘Darwin’s rottweiler’ Richard Dawkins is spearheading a campaign in America to trumpet the voice of the nation’s atheists who are seemingly downtrodden by…
The excellent BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time has returned after a summer break with a discussion on Socrates. You can listen to this at any time on the net and, for one week only, you can download it…
Hi – below is the programe for the GPS. I would encourage all RPE students (and others) to attend these – you will be made very welcome… [the guilt debate still continues at ] Dave Gloucestershire Philosophical Society.Programme: Autumn…
for an archive of the Locke lectures – very interesting listening..Dave
For those of you keen to make a start on Beyond Good and Evil (and why shouldn’t you be!) we will be using the translation by Marion Faber, published by Oxford University Press. Translations do vary quite a bit so…