Religion, Philosophy & Ethics

Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.

Call me Dr X?

 – an interesting dicussion: should students call me Dr X (esp odd, my surname not being ‘X’) and I call them by their surname: ‘Oi Smith, what is meant by synthetic a priori? eh?‘ Or maybe not.I am kind of…

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Need a break?

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 think of…

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Coffins in Ghana

Last year in RPE301 (as we will in January) we looked at ‘death cultures’ including coffins in Ghana. As reports – a new exhibition of these has just opened in London at the Jack Bell gallery… Thought this might…

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FCH Film Society

A new film society for FCH has been launched showing films related to a monthly theme every Monday evening. The theme for December is Conscience and the first screening, the Hitchcock film Rope, will be shown Monday 6th December at…

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