Megan Johnstone and Kerstin Jump – Editor’s note: We were lucky enough to get in contact with Bath Time magazine over at the University of Bath to give our respective poets the theme of life in our different university towns.…
Freddy Purcell – A few weeks ago, those of us taking the new Philosophical Research module led by Kirsten Walsh had the opportunity to personally engage with Adrian Currie and his interlocutor, Derek Turner, on the relationship between epistemic and…
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…
Christopher 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…