Freddy Purcell – In this article, which I want to make into a series as part of content calls next year, I will provide a short summary of a recently published paper by an Exeter University Academic and write a…
Freddy Purcell – One of PhilSoc’s most entertaining speakers returned for a third year in a row to brighten up our exam season. To those of you that didn’t make it, I hope the exams are treating you well.…
Ahmed Helmy – Do you agree with Lugones that we create different narrative selves when we “world-travel”? Are there parts of the self a narrative approach overlooks or cannot account for? (This essay was written for the module Knowledge and…
Freddy Purcell – For our final Phil on Tap of the term (maybe the year as well…) we welcomed one of our Fresher’s representatives, Ahmed Helmy, for a fascinating and personable talk. There hasn’t been a talk led by a…
Kerstin Jump – Editor’s note: As part of our recent collaboration with Bath Time magazine, we could only submit one poem. However, it felt wrong not to publish those that didn’t make it, so we wanted to present you with…
Megan Johnstone and Kerstin Jump – Editor’s note: We were lucky enough to get in contact with Bath Time magazine over at the University of Bath to give our respective poets the theme of life in our different university towns.…
Freddy Purcell – A few weeks ago, those of us taking the new Philosophical Research module led by Kirsten Walsh had the opportunity to personally engage with Adrian Currie and his interlocutor, Derek Turner, on the relationship between epistemic and…
Freddy Purcell – We welcomed one of our most prolific speakers, Ed Skidelsky, back for an engaging talk on the modern state of universities. Ed began the talk with a short history of changes to university education, beginning in the…
Freddy Purcell – As the far-right continues to feel like a powerful political force and discussions on how to counteract far-right views seem more common, I wanted to investigate what an effective response to the far-right involves. This topic is…