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103 and 107Please try and get your presentation groups and topics to me ASAP…I would like to start the presentations next week (Week 9) but this might be unrealistic. If we only start in Week 10, all of you must…

Because some of you have been missing lectures, I have been getting emails asking for links to the readings we will be doing for the rest of the course. So here they are: Anslem’s Ontological Argument: Thoreau’s “Life without…

Each group must choose one of the following papers (or excerpts of text) for their presentation/written work combo. There is enough choice for every group to do something different, so we will work on a “first tell Carl choice, first…

We had a good turnout for our firsting meeting as The Philosophy Society. Jess prepared some excellent minutes which I will email to those on the mailing list. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to…

There is an interesting post on the ethical issues surrounding dementia at – some of you might like to head over there to comment… Dave

The faculty of Sport, Exercise and Social Care are advertising a three year fully funded PhD (£12,000 plus fees) in the Philosophy of Sport and Technology. The studentship is available to research the following questions: To what extent can a…

Just a reminder that our next (and last) meeting for this year is Tuesday 6th May at 6pm in Bar Ha! Ha!, Montpelier. We will be discussing Anna Karenina but please still come even if you haven’t managed to read…

As I was researching for my essay on business ethics and globalisation, I have come upon a polarity of ideas: from Milton Friedman, “the business of business is business”, to Hume’s naturalistic fallacy of an is not an ought The…

Our next reading will be Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. We will discuss this at our next two meetings so will break it into the two volumes. It can be found in various places online but it is probably much better to…