07 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Ideas, Interviews
MM has recently spoken at length with the Los Angeles Review of Books on the themes of her recent book, Platonic Conversations.
And she also has some insights into reading gleaned from the decades of reading ancient philosophy for The Reading List – as well as confessing to the the crime of marginalia writing!
Both interviews are well worth a read.
07 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted in Events, Public talks
Does anger impede political progress or is it essential for change? Does love make us biased or is it the foundation of ethical thinking? Might shame alter not merely our perception of the world, but the very world itself? Reason is often contrasted with emotion, but what if emotion is essential for understanding traditional philosophical ideas? And how did we end up thinking that reason could ever do without emotion? (more details)
Next week: 14 November, 18:30 — 20:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, London, WC2A 3LJ United Kingdom
Claire will chair and MM will be a speaker.
16 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in Events, Public engagements
MM discussing Plato’s Republic with Melvyn Bragg, Angie Hobbs (Sheffield) and James Warren (Cambridge) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vwn6h
21 Friday Jul 2017
Posted in Announcements
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We are thrilled our much-loved colleague MM McCabe has been announced to the position today, 21 July, along with 65 other of the world’s leading minds in the humanities and social sciences.
The full announcement and list can be found here.
We extended our warmest congratulations to MM and to all those elected.
30 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Events, History of Philosophy, Public talks, Research
