Emotions and the Self
Spring Term 2018, Mondays, 13:00 – 15:00, ten weeks starting 15th January Course Tutor: Jane O’Grady. When you are angry or sad are you just having physical sensations? Or are anger or sadness, instead, ways of perceiving the situation you are in? Are emotions a distortion of our true (rational) nature, or essentially part of us? The […]
Thinking on Sunday: Palestine, Israel and the Beautiful Game – dilemmas for a post-ethical age?
Football is the most popular sport in both Israel and Palestine. Both football associations are members of the world governing body FIFA and are subject to its rules. Teams from the two countries have never played each other. “No place for politics in sport” is a familiar mantra that implies superior ethical standards in sport. Is that […]
Deconstruction
Spring Term 2018, Mondays, 11:00 – 13:00, ten weeks starting 15th January Course Tutor: Mark Fielding. To enrol, please e-mail Mark (mark[at]londonschoolofphilosophy.org).
Classics of Moral Philosophy: Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature
Autumn Term 2017, Tuesdays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 3rd October Course Tutor: Sam Fremantle This course will undertake a guided reading of those parts of Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature that put forward his ethical theory, covering roughly a third or a half of the book. Time permitting, we shall go on to look at differing […]
History of Philosophy 1
Autumn Term 2017, Tuesdays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 3rd October Course Tutor: Jane O’Grady. ‘What’s it all about then, guv?’ a taxi driver asked Bertrand Russell. This course gives a chronological survey of some the great Western philosophers who have formulated, and tried to solve, enduring puzzles – what reality is, who we are, how […]
Philosophers of Otherness 3: Irigaray, Kristeva, Butler
Autumn Term 2017, Tuesdays, 17:00 – 19:00, ten weeks starting 3rd October Course Tutor: Keith Barrett. ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that all philosophers … have been very inexpert about women?’ – wrote Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil. Confounding Nietzsche, some of the most important contemporary philosophers […]
The Pre-Socratics
Autumn Term 2017, Tuesdays, 15:00 – 17:00, ten weeks starting 3rd October Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. Philosophy is two and a half thousand years old, no longer a spring chicken and, as we all like to do when we get older, it is time for it to look back to its youthful beginnings. But how can we […]
New Shakespeare and Philosophy
Autumn Term 2017, Tuesdays, 11:00 – 13:00, ten weeks starting 3rd October Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. Should philosophers go to the theatre? Can philosophy learn from Shakespeare? We will explore themes in political and moral philosophy, as well as philosophical anthropology using five plays by Shakespeare, including Othello and Measure for Measure. To enrol, please e-mail Anja (anja[at]philosophynow.org).
Classics of Moral Philosophy: Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals
Autumn Term 2017, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 2nd October Course Tutor: Sam Fremantle. This course will undertake a guided reading of Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, covering either the entirety of the book, or at least the essential parts, depending on the pace the class finds comfortable. Time permitting, we shall go on to look […]