Experiential Access to Global Issues
In the aftermath of COP30, Freddy Purcell argues that rich experience is fundamental in prompting moral change, creating a complex picture for issues on the world stage.
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Colloquium 38: Paddy McQueen – A pitiful intellectualist trinket? Examining the “fittingness” of emotions
Freddy Purcell details Paddy McQueen's recent talk on the fittingness of emotions, including some heated discussions.
Phil on Tap 13/11/25: Carmen Mossner – Do online spaces mess with our empathy?
Freddy Purcell covers Carmen Mosser's talk questioning whether online spaces make us less empathetic and possible solutions to remedy this
Phil on Tap 30/10/25: Tyler Brunet – Time Travel with Attractors
Freddy Purcell discusses Tyler Brunet's talk on inevitability in branching models of time and why it may not be so easy to change the past.
Colloquium 36: Adrian Currie and Kirsten Walsh – Agential Distance
Freddy Purcell covers Adrian Currie and Kirsten Walsh's talk on the epistemic benefits of situating the scientist within an experiment.
Phil on Tap 23/10/25: Lucy Osler – Are chatbots shaping your reality?
Freddy Purcell covers Lucy Osler's talk on how AI may not only "hallucinate", but also dynamically shape our perception of the world.
Liberalism and Illiberalism in Arab Nationalist Movements
Laila Helmy examines how flexible and varied ideologies within Arab nationalist movements defy simple labelling, instead painting a nuanced picture of political thought.
Hermeneutical Injustice and Literacy Laws in Pre-Civil War America
Isaac McManus explores the hermeneutical injustice perpetrated through literacy laws against enslaved people, pointing out some flaws in Fricker's original description of injustice and detailing some of its nuance.
Why did Kant’s moral and political theory place freedom above other values?
Laila Helmy details a nuanced account of Kant's moral and political theory, picking out the complexities of holding freedom as foundational.