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'Il Gattamelata' There’s a book on my bookshelf entitled ‘ The Wreck of Western Culture - Humanism Revisited’ by John Carroll...

Harry Potter? No - philosophy graduates. As the Great Day of our graduation with a Master of Arts in Philosophy - one each - approa...

Valid deductive reasoning is that in which the premises provide conclusive reasons for the conclusion, and it is impossible for the premis...

"The School of Athens" I spoke of Pope Julius II and his hiring of the Renaissance master Raphael to paint frescos all over h...

Rene Descartes I enjoyed a happy philosophical moment the other day, when I went to a meeting with Dr Sarah Patterson (‘Early Moderns’...

Parsifal : via a misunderstood Persian etymology, chosen by Wagner as the name of his ‘pure fool’. Parsifal : sublime and confusing. On th...

I haven’t, so far, burdened you with news of my Epistemology class, fraught as it is with scepticism, realism, anti-realism, a priori ...