I Pronounce My Own Name Wrong
Dhruv Raï explores issues of identity within a multicultural background in this personal article.
Pantheism: One and all – Literature Review
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…
Phil on Tap 08/05/25: Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes – Psychedelics and Pantheism
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.…
World Travelling and MMOs
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…
Phil on Tap 20/03/25: Ahmed Helmy- World-Travelling as Existential Necessity (Digital Selves, Mental Health, and the Fragmented Self).
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…
Poetry of Place: A Poetry Collection by Kerstin Jump
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…
Exeter-Bath Poetry Collaboration
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.…
Provenance and the Natural World: An Interview with Derek Turner
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…
Phil on Tap 27/02/25: Ed Skidelsky- The Commercialisation of University Education
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…