by Jo Wolff (@JoWolffBSG), the Alfred Landecker professor of values and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, and governing body fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford!

See this new article by @JoWolffBSG on storytelling in the social sciences in @aj_wendland‘s Agora series @NewStatesman. Jonathan Wolff is also the author of “Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry” (Routledge).

@aj_wendland launched and runs the philosophy column in The New Statesman called Agora, which is a space for academics to address contemporary social, political and cultural issues from a philosophical point of view.

Wishing everyone a safe and restful holiday season! – King’s Department of Philosophy (@kingsphilosophy)

Check out the latest from the Agora, “Why social science needs stories” by Alexander Prescott-Couch (@prescottcouch), who is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford.

See this new article by @prescottcouch on storytelling in the social sciences in @aj_wendland‘s Agora series @NewStatesman. @aj_wendland launched and runs the philosophy column in The New Statesman called Agora, which is a space for academics to address contemporary social, political and cultural issues from a philosophical point of view.

In a new 15 minute Masterclass Youtube video, Professor Bill Brewer (@mbillbrewer), Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, asks whether we perceive the physical world directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRmDqOOYs2k

Also new and exciting are two other 15 minute Masterclasses by Professor Robert Stern, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, “What are Kant’s formulations of the supreme principle of morality?” and “How does Kant identify the supreme principle of morality?“

The Royal Institute of Philosophy’s (@RIPhilo) 15-Minute Masterclass series brings you accessible overviews of 30 philosophical topics from eminent philosophers. You can watch them all here on the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqK-cZS_wviDkzVDUAw-AeZHrmt5mq8wB

You can listen to the podcast for Ideas on CBC Radio here!: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-a-debate-over-nothing-split-western-philosophy-apart-1.6268281

‘Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question,’ said philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Check out the latest from the Agora, “Charles Mills: Reimagining Political Philosophy”, by Sophie Smith, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

You can also read Sophie’s (@DrSophieSmith) most recent article, “Historicising Rawls”, which elaborates on Charles Mills’s contributions to the history of 20th-century political philosophy.