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Dig Deeper: The Moral Maze

18/10/2014

 
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Earlier this month and excellent series returned to the airwaves that should be obligatory listening for any A-level RS student and those wishing to study RS, PPE or Moral Philosophy. The Moral Maze is presented by Michael Burke who chairs a panel of experts as they question a number of "witnesses" about a particular ethical problem.
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The great thing about this format is not only are you informed about an ethical issue (the first episode of this series, which can be found here, is about whether we should talk to terrorists) but you also get to listen into a very good debate and series of critical questions. After the witlessness have been interrogated by the panel there is then a review of their evidence which normally sparks more debate. The panel are always passionate and really express their strong opinions.


You can download this as a podcast (here) and listen to it at any time meaning there is no excuse! What a great way to get informed and further your exposure to Moral Philosophy.

Dig Deeper: Lectures by the British humanist Society

16/10/2014

 
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Two Lectures coming up over the next few months run by the British Humanist Society have caught my eye:

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Plato At The Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

This talk refutes the assertion of some that philosophy is dead, and has no intellectual substance or future in this scientific era.  She offers insight into the significant progress philosophy has made and why it is critical to our lives today and she does so in a witty and imaginative way. Plato is resurrected and into the twenty-first century where he embarks on a speaking tour during which he engages in a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a tiger mother; encounters the host of a right-wing news programme who denies that can be morality without religion; and is made to consider Google and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts. This would be great talk for Y12's Theory of the Forms.

Time: Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7:00pm start - 9.00pm 
Date: 20 October 2014
Venue: Nunn Hall, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL

Find more information here

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Simon Blackburn's Bentham Lecture: Hume the Humanist?

David Hume strove to understand human nature better in terms of psychology and our natural impulses, rather than our relationship to any gods or goddesses. He was a fierce naturalist, an empiricist, and a sceptic. But was Hume a humanist in the sense we know today? Some would say yes - and others might want to unpack this question a little bit more.

The popular moral philosopher and BHA Vice Preisdent Professor Simon Blackburn will cast a little light on what we think we know about Hume's beliefs about the universe, and embark on a close examination of Humanism itself.  This would be great for Y12 studying arguments for the existence of God

Time: Doors open at 6.00pm for a 6:30pm start - 8.30pm (followed by a drinks reception)
Date: 26 November
Venue: UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (Anatomy G29 J Z Young LT)

Find more details here

Dig Deeper: St Martin in the Fields Lecture Series; Living without enemies

17/9/2014

 
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If you are serious about Philosophy and Ethics it is important to take every opportunity to further your experience of the subject. The idea of this new feature of Fordthought is to bring you details of opportunities to stretch and challenge yourself.

The first of these is a 6-part lecture series that runs from 22nd of September to 24th November. These are all at St Martins in the Fields in central London, near Trafalgar Square. The focus of the talks, in the centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War, is on conflict, what humanity has learnt and how those who believe in a God of Justice and Love can respond.

Speakers include Sam Wells, the vicar of St Martins and professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London; Baroness Shirley Williams the life peer and co-founder of the Liberal Democrats;  Andrew White the chaplain of St George’s Bagdad and Richard Harries, former Bishop of Oxford.

The lectures are entitled:

  • Can there ever be a Just War?
  • Living without enemies in Northern Ireland.
  • What has our nation learnt from war?
  • Living without enemies in Bagdad.
  • What have we learnt from war? A view from the front line
  • The Christian concept of peace.

These lectures of course link directly to the OCR AS Ethics course but would also be great for those who in study History or Politics.

You can find more information at http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/education/lecture-series/ or by downloading the flyer - Here:

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