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…
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…
Kerstin Jump- The conceptual leaning for these three poems is technology, specifically the act of typing on laptops, in relation to communication and literature. ‘Ctrl.end’ has a fixed rhyme and meter, ‘Dial, alone’ is an attempted Villanelle and ‘sea pebble’…
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…