Lacan with Levinas and Sartre
Spring Term 2018, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 15th January Course Tutor: Keith Barrett. Jacques Lacan was one of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century, bringing together philosophy and psychoanalysis to create a subtle and powerful vision of the human condition that has been uniquely influential on the contemporary intellectual scene. The course […]
Philosophy of History from Kant to Foucault
Spring Term 2018, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 15th January Course Tutor: Meade McCloughan. How should we, as historical beings, understand ourselves and our place in history? Are we moving forward, and if so, how and to what? Or should we be looking back, to understand how we got to where we are now? This […]
Introduction to Philosophy
Spring Term 2018, Mondays, 17:00 – 19:00, ten weeks starting 15th January Course Tutors: Mark Fielding and Jane O’Grady. This is a general Introduction to Philosophy based on the individual course of the same name which is part of the University of London International Programme in Philosophy. Students who register for this examination will benefit from a programme of study which […]
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 […]