Yesterday's 'In Our Time' programme (29 October) on Radio 4 featured a detailed overview of Schopenhauer's work featuring Melvyn Bragg and Anthony Grayling amongst other guests. Available via BBC Radio 4 Iplayer--follow the links from the Radio 4 'Listen Again' link.
Enjoy!
Ruth
Friday, 30 October 2009
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
NTU Philosophy Seminar Series
NTU Philosophy Seminar Series
The Philosophy Teaching and Research Group, based in the School of Arts and Humanities, will be running a series of reading based seminars this year on the theme of Speculative Materialism. Associated with the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, Ray Brassier and Ian Hamilton Grant, Speculative Materialism is fast becoming a new thought-style in contemporary philosophy and increasingly influential in a range of other humanities and social science based disciplines.
The first session will discuss a classic paper that is often cited as one of the forerunners of this new philosophical dispensation – Wilfred Sellars’ 1963 paper Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man. In subsequent weeks we will go on to discuss Ray Brassier’s book Nihil Unbound and Quentin Meillassoux’s recent and highly acclaimed work After Finitude.
These seminars should appeal to all those who want to keep abreast of conceptual innovations in contemporary philosophy.
The first seminar will take place on Wednesday Oct 28th, 1-2 pm, in ICAn 215. All are welcome.
For further information please contact Neil Turnbull, Ruth Griffin or Patrick O’Connor.
The Philosophy Teaching and Research Group, based in the School of Arts and Humanities, will be running a series of reading based seminars this year on the theme of Speculative Materialism. Associated with the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, Ray Brassier and Ian Hamilton Grant, Speculative Materialism is fast becoming a new thought-style in contemporary philosophy and increasingly influential in a range of other humanities and social science based disciplines.
The first session will discuss a classic paper that is often cited as one of the forerunners of this new philosophical dispensation – Wilfred Sellars’ 1963 paper Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man. In subsequent weeks we will go on to discuss Ray Brassier’s book Nihil Unbound and Quentin Meillassoux’s recent and highly acclaimed work After Finitude.
These seminars should appeal to all those who want to keep abreast of conceptual innovations in contemporary philosophy.
The first seminar will take place on Wednesday Oct 28th, 1-2 pm, in ICAn 215. All are welcome.
For further information please contact Neil Turnbull, Ruth Griffin or Patrick O’Connor.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Philosophy and Politics
For philosophers interested in the current social economic and political situation, you might want to take a look at our other blog - 'Philosophy and Politics'.
Please make your voice heard and contribute to the debate (but if you do, please be respectful and polite!).
You can find this at:
http://politics-and-philosophy.blogspot.com/
Cheers
Neil
Please make your voice heard and contribute to the debate (but if you do, please be respectful and polite!).
You can find this at:
http://politics-and-philosophy.blogspot.com/
Cheers
Neil
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
NTU Philosophy Society
The NTU philosophy soc has been set up to give members a chance to get together and discuss philiosophical issues in an informal atmosphere.
The society also intends to offer mini lectures on various issues from Eastern philosophy to phenomenology.
We also organise movie viewings and socials where philosophy discussions are optional but welcomed.
The society is still young and we hope to expand and offer events on a bi-monthly basis. The NTU Phil Soc operates from the ground up and we encourage all members to suggest ideas for the future events...
you can find our current blog at:
ntuphilosophysociety.blogspot.com
The society also intends to offer mini lectures on various issues from Eastern philosophy to phenomenology.
We also organise movie viewings and socials where philosophy discussions are optional but welcomed.
The society is still young and we hope to expand and offer events on a bi-monthly basis. The NTU Phil Soc operates from the ground up and we encourage all members to suggest ideas for the future events...
you can find our current blog at:
ntuphilosophysociety.blogspot.com
Monday, 9 March 2009
Darwin and Philosophy
Check out our external examiner in a BBC documentary on Darwin and Philosophy!
For information on this programme see
www.bbc.co.uk/darwin/?tab=20&start_at=18
Cheers
Neil
For information on this programme see
www.bbc.co.uk/darwin/?tab=20&start_at=18
Cheers
Neil
Sunday, 8 March 2009
I am going to propose what could appear to some to be a controversial and reactionary thesis - that students should once again produce handwritten essays.
Wouldn’t this be an improvement on the current situation, where ‘word processed’ assignments are typically ‘produced’ without much thought and effort?
Might handwritten essays prove to be more thoughtful and, in the end, engender a new appreciation of the craft of essay writing?
Although perhaps rather quaint on first inspection this idea does have a very respectable philosophical pedigree. Wittgenstein, for one, suggested that he thought with his pen. Can we really suggest that we think with our PCs? Doesn’t the computer engender an instrumental attitude towards thought and language, where the truth and significance of ideas are subordinated to their overall efficiency and effectiveness?
Heidegger, too, would have been very suspicious of the idea that words should be ‘processed’. For him, those who claim that word processing makes writing more efficient are simply wrongheaded. Heidegger would have objected that any attempt to sever writing from the hand will also sever writing from thought.
I think that Heidegger was onto something here. With the word processor thought is mechanically forced and it ceases to dialectically flow.
Thinking is tied to the body in ways that we no longer appreciate.
Neil Turnbull
Wouldn’t this be an improvement on the current situation, where ‘word processed’ assignments are typically ‘produced’ without much thought and effort?
Might handwritten essays prove to be more thoughtful and, in the end, engender a new appreciation of the craft of essay writing?
Although perhaps rather quaint on first inspection this idea does have a very respectable philosophical pedigree. Wittgenstein, for one, suggested that he thought with his pen. Can we really suggest that we think with our PCs? Doesn’t the computer engender an instrumental attitude towards thought and language, where the truth and significance of ideas are subordinated to their overall efficiency and effectiveness?
Heidegger, too, would have been very suspicious of the idea that words should be ‘processed’. For him, those who claim that word processing makes writing more efficient are simply wrongheaded. Heidegger would have objected that any attempt to sever writing from the hand will also sever writing from thought.
I think that Heidegger was onto something here. With the word processor thought is mechanically forced and it ceases to dialectically flow.
Thinking is tied to the body in ways that we no longer appreciate.
Neil Turnbull
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