The IAPC has acquired the rights to share a video of Matthew Lipman’s appearance on the public television program "The Eleventh Hour" which includes a six-minute video of Philosophy Doc🦐, Civil Liberties facilitating a session. This video has not been seen since 1989! youtu.be/qNe_5rsKSWc?si…

I really enjoyed it too - and the glass (or 2) of wine we had afterwards!

The National Museum Wales is under threat. Museums are important repositories of knowledge and heritage, places of inspiration, and crucial for education. Please consider signing the petition to increase its funding - it's close to reaching 10,000 signatures, when it will be

The Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. You can find out more about his wonderful mind here: bigthink.com/series/legends…

Wonderful few days in Athens to discuss Stoicism in thought-provoking event organised by The Aurelius Foundation⁩. Friday saw us in the Academy, including a moving panel with Andy Small, Pat Cash & Boris Becker ⁦Sheffield Philosophy⁩⁩ ⁦Faculty of Arts and Humanities⁩ ⁦Plato's Academy Centre⁩

Join us to celebrate the distinguished career of Robert Stern. Robert Stern is one of Britain’s most important historians of philosophy, best known for his work on Hegel, he has played an extraordinarily active role in the life of UK philosophy. sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/eve…

'We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.' Daniel Dennett (1942 – 2024) Philosopher, cognitive scientist, and humanist

A new Netflix series: The Philosophers

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I have been a proud supporter of the inspirational The Refugee Tales since 2015. And David Herd is indeed a very fine poet.

A super piece by Joshua Forstenzer .

Advice to campus protestors: carry this Brent Ott VSI, not the one on Terrorism

If you’re in Oxford tomorrow (Saturday) come to this free event Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop at 11am upstairs in the events room. The brilliant @edithmayhall will be talking about suicide, classical philosophy and Greek tragedy!

Please join us for a Philosophy in Schools Showcase on 27 June at Uni of Birmingham. Featuring philosophical inquiries led by Grace Lockrobin, Prof Lisa Bortolotti and Laura D'Olimpio, and a philosophy song cycle performed by the children of Kings Rise Academy. birmingham.ac.uk/philosophy-in-…

Very much looking forward to this! Sheffield Philosophy Centre for Engaged Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities Sheffield Uni News and Views

Honoured to have my paper "Consent as a Focus of Inquiry in Citizenship Education" included in this newly published collection edited by Joshua Forstenzer, Fufy Demissie, & Vachararutai Boontinand routledge.com/The-Pedagogy-o…

Tim Crane on AI and Agency philosophyofbrains.com/2024/06/14/tim… via The Brains Blog (fediscience.org/@Brains)

Here is an expanded presentation of my argument that LLMs are game-playing systems, given today to the International Workshop on Generative AI (GENAI) and the Philosophy of Mind, Lisbon, Portugal keithfrankish.com/presentations/…

Next year I’ll be teaching a course for Greek U/Gs on conceptions of the good life / flourishing, and I need an anthology of texts from different periods and traditions translated into Modern Greek. Does anyone have any suggestions, please?