Recursived (issuing book to member of academic staff): "And appropriately, Aristotle's Metaphysics is due back after Aristotle's Physics."

The Graun have one of their silly ideas that will change the world!!! pieces, which has the grubby paw-marks of John "Who Needs Julian Baggini When I'm Around?" Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, all over it. I leave it up to you to spot the not-so-radical ideas being ( Read more... )

New Year's Resolutions: Vaguely Serious Posts I Must Write:

1. The mythical Pensions post.
2. My political philosophy. In short: nihilistic idealism (but not idealism in either of its usual forms).
3. Baudrillard.
4. Related to the comment about V for Vendetta below, politically subversive SF films ( Read more... )

You may or may not have noticed that the BBC have been running a poll to find the "Greatest Philosopher".

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