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Natural?
Hi. As part of our induction activities for new students next week, we shall be asking them what is meant by term ‘natural’: what does it mean to talk of an ‘unnatural’ practice – especially as an evaluative moral term?…
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Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.
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New Author – Emily Ryall
Hello everyone, and thanks to Dave for trusting that I’m not going to abuse my privileges as a site author. For those of you that are unaware of the fact: believe it or not, the Sport, Health and Social Care…
Essay Competition
University of KentuckyFifth Annual Prize Essay Competition inEuropean Philosophy from Kant to the Present TOPIC: The Implications of Bio-Medical Technology forHuman Nature This topic may be addressed historically, systematically, or through any combination of these two approaches. The winning essay…
20,000 and counting
So – we hit over 20,000 for page hits to the blog – thanks to all those who have joined in, as we almost get to the 1-year birthday of the R-P-E blog. I am hoping that two new authors…
Fair Use and Copyright – video
This is interesting on copyright and ‘fair use’…. if you can follow it! Dave [youtube ]
Religion and Public Opinion
An article on the Times website reports on a YouGov poll that finds that: NEARLY half the British think that religion is harmful, according to a pollcarried out by YouGov. Yet more than half also believe in God “orsomething”. Is…
Running Away..
– for anyone with spare cash to donate to charity! [image is not my actual legs; for illustrative purposes only…]
Shameless Self Promotion…
In case readers are interested, both in general terms, and because of a piece entitled Even Philosophers Get the Blues, see this press release (also available from Amazon, etc): Essays prove the Blues was an African American invasion of European…
‘Properly Basic’ Beliefs and the Existence of God
Over at Go Grue they have been having a fascinating discussion regarding Alvin Plantinga’a treatment of whether belief in God is ‘properly basic’.. The nature of the way the authors deal with the argument will also be of interest, I…