25 Thursday Jan 2018
Posted in Ideas, Interviews
The Irish Times: “Do you let clichés and slogans do the thinking for you?“
Joe Humphreys:
As the second World War approached, the British philosopher Susan Stebbing wrote of “an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well”. She said: “ Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.”
Her words are as relevant in 2018…
11 Monday Dec 2017
Posted in Interviews, Public engagements
3:AM’s Richard Marshall interviews Eliot Michaelson mostly on referring and ethics here.
19 Thursday Oct 2017
Posted in Announcements, Interviews, Mind, Metaphysics, Psychology
A fascinating interview with Mark, titled ‘Brentano’s Mind, Frege’s Sense’, has been published at 3am magazine.
26 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in Ideas, Interviews, Uncategorized
King’s Eliot Michaelson teams up with Hollywood star James Franco in Philosophy Time, a newly released series of short video interviews with contemporary philosophers on the topics of beauty, abortion, metaphor and imagination. Continue reading
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Events, History of Philosophy, Ideas, KHOPS, Public talks, Uncategorized
This Friday the King’s History of Philosophy Seminar will have Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) will be speaking on
‘How to be a methodological analytical egalitarian with help from Mandeville and Adam Smith (and be a feminist too)’
Room 304, Philosophy Building, Strand Campus, KCL 11am-1pm.
All are welcome – contact John Callanan (john.callanan@kcl.ac.uk) for any further details.
05 Monday Dec 2016
Posted in History of Philosophy, Interviews, News, Uncategorized
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A profile of Jessica Leech can be found here: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/kind-fact-flying-pig-kant-things-like/
04 Sunday Dec 2016
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Prod David Papineau features in an hour-long podcast in The Conversation UK on the subject of Belief, where he is joined by a number of leading psychologists and other scientists. The discussion is very topical in light of the misinformation crisis in our democracies.
02 Friday Dec 2016
Prof Maria Rosa Antognazza comments on Europe’s divisions through the lens of Leibniz’s political philosophy and his own experience of political turmoil in his lifetime in a recent article in Aeon.
08 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in Essays, Mind, Metaphysics, Psychology, Research
The Jacobsen Committee (University of London) has announced that the winner of this year’s Jacobsen Essay competition is our very own Jorgen Dyrstad with his essay ‘Seeing and Differentiating‘.
01 Saturday Oct 2016
Posted in Interviews
Dr Sarah Fine contributes to a debate on freedom of movement as core of the EU citizenship hosted by the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship:
How can we try to defend free movement as the core of EU citizenship without considering what is happening right now at (and indeed within) the EU’s own borders?
