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Welcome!
So – another year… A big welcome back to all existing RPE students, and an equally excessive welcome to all our new Religion, Philosophy & Ethics students. We will be seeing you all week – but do browse these blog…
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Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.
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Philosophy in the city (and village)
Famous Liverpool Sophists Those misguided amongst you who thought Athens was the birthplace of philosophy are wrong: it was Liverpool (remember Plato’s Cavern?), and to celebrate this fact there is a two-week Philosophy in the City festival which will bring…
Mocking?
I noticed at that: “An ice cream company banned from using an advert displaying a pregnant nun has vowed to position similar posters in London in time for the Pope’s visit. Antonio Federici’s advert showed a pregnant nun eating…
Flickr updates
Just a quick note: have finally begun to add some stuff to the RPE Flickr page (see widget to the right) – or – hope to add some more soon…
The Politics of Health Care
I read this article a few weeks ago now from the New Yorker and was both moved and impressed by it. Its content is very powerful, and if you are disturbed by stories of the dying, then I wouldn’t suggest…
Bullfighting banned in Catalonia…
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&videoId=world/2010/07/28/goodman.lok.spain.bullfight.cnn So here we have a clear contrast between claims for cultural value, and claims of universal animal rights… – how do we disentangle them? Fox news (!) has a view HERE and the usual BBC Have Your Say crowd…
The Philosophy Society – July
The next meeting for the philosophy reading group will be Thursday, 1st July at 6pm. As always we will meet at 5.55pm at the entrance to the SU Bar at Park Campus. Paul Caddle is leading the meeting and will…
Metal Madnness…
Heavy Fundametalisms: Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance, Madness and Alienation 8 to 10 November 2010Prague, Czech Republic Now THAT is a conference topic! Wish I could go…Would like to do something on NWOBHM, but not sure there’s…
Exams and Cheating
May interest some here!