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…
Freddy Purcell- We were really lucky to have Callum along to Phil on Tap for the second year in a row to talk about his work on the radical right, based on the PhD he completed in 2023. Callum begun…
Chris Cross - For most people, it could be considered a thoroughly miserable day. The clouds that darkened over the forest had encroached over the village. A heavy scent of petrichor swamped the market; this had alerted them to the downpour that had soon befallen the vendors...
Freddy Purcell- Welcome back to a new term (and calendar year) of Phil on Tap! Thank you to all those that showed up and to Kirsten for her brilliant talk. The talk centred around Kirsten’s current research into certainty, which…
Wilf Smith- Hello there. I would like to start this article by outlining a brief history of Sudoku. The 18th century Swiss mathematicians’ game was adapted into its modern version by puzzle inventor Howard Garns in 1979 in Indiana, USA. In 1984…
Kerstin Jump- The concept behind these poems is transformation. The first poem specifically talks about transformation of identity and location. The second poem explores transformation in terms of memory and people after death, physically and imaginatively. The third poem looks more…
Freddy Purcell– In the first term of this year, I attended Joel Krueger’s module, Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy, where we read Watsuji Tetsuro’s Rinrigaku and applied its content to philosophical issues. In this book, Watsuji forms an…
–Freddy Purcell Editor’s Note: I Hope you are all having good holidays. Here is a Christmas puzzle to compleTe if you have a Spare moment. The first person to crack the code and Leave the right answer down in the…