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…
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…
Freddy Purcell– Over November we were lucky enough to have three guests speak on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles. It was greatly enjoyable for me to find out more about the research the lecturers undertake…
Dan Pasfield- Editor’s Note: This is the first instalment in what I hope will be a long and life-changing series of articles. Opinion pieces are designed to be more casual essays that don’t require academic referencing. I hope that this…
–Freddy Purcell Philosophy Society’s President of two years ago (Benjamin Roth) returned on Thursday for a characteristically passionate speech. I have personally never been on the receiving end of such a diversity of adjectives, so if you wanted your vocabulary…
Amelia Woods- Author’s note: The following essay was written for Joel Krueger’s second year module Body and Mind. In the first section, I argue that the split-self metaphors used to describe post-traumatic experience are minimally explanative when it comes to…