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–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…

Freddy Purcell- Editor’s Note: In this article I will look to summarise the arguments made in Philosophy Society’s first Phil on Tap this year. I intend to do this for each Phil on Tap that we run, so if you can’t…

Freddy Purcell– This article idea was born out of my greatest regret (academically speaking at least) from first year being that I didn’t speak to my lecturers more in their office hours or after lecturers. I was either too busy…

Freddy Purcell- This article aims to help you freshers out there in your module choices by revealing some aspects of the first-year modules that you can’t find out on the Exeter site. However, if you want to find out about…