Phil On Tap 15/10/2026: Ed Skidelsky – Is Education a Commodity? The Future of the British University
Freddy Purcell covers Ed Skidelsky's piercing philosophical examination of higher education.
Phil On Tap 24/09/2026: Adrian Currie – Lost Worlds; A Partly Improvised Philosophy About Dinosaurs, Science and the Deep Past
Ben Odell, Co-Director of Notion, comprehensively discusses the first Phil On Tap of the year; a journey into the epistemology of the prehistoric with Adrian Currie, ahead of his book's release this October.
The Phenomenology of Minecraft
Ahmed Helmy uses a familiar case study to explore the phenomenology of perception, challenging some classic assumptions.
Undergraduate Philosophy Essays: Tips from a very recent graduate
Freddy Purcell offers some general advice for essay writing at undergraduate level.
Cuts at the University of Exeter
Freddy Purcell discusses the recent announcement from university leadership.
Why Malicious Superintelligent AI is not ‘just around the corner’
Dan Barton argues that the classic narrative of our inevitable destruction wrought by AI is far less likely to occur than we might think.
Colloquium 50: Franziska Reinhard – Palaeontology… in Space?
Freddy Purcell covers the latest talk on Martian science.
Phil on Tap 26/03/26: Luna Dolezal – Structural shame: Reflections on the Phenomenology of Oppression
Freddy Purcell covers the final Phil on Tap of the year, a fascinating dive into the experience and structure of shame, from a new speaker.
Colloquium 46: Gregory Currie – Art as the manifestation of agency
Freddy Purcell details, the legendary aesthetician, Greg Currie's talk on how artworks reveal the skill of their creators.