This week’s theme is “purpose”: A lesson about purposes from Thinking Beans: A Year of Philosophy Lessons for the Classroom by David Birch, which I’m publishing. You are invited to the online book on Tuesday 6th October, 7 p.m. Click here to book a free ticket Insights on how to achieve the purposes of things we do […]
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Readers have requested start-of-term advice on P4Cing in the context of coronavirus, and in a COVID-safe way. These are my thoughts – I appreciate many of you are already back/scarcely left so I’d love to hear yours too. 1. Do it. 2. Do it outside. 3. Use an “invisible ball”. 4. Don’t shove coronavirus down
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In this week’s Philosophy Wranglers sessions, we were looking at Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It’s such a provocative story that it might be a useful foil to anyone who doing their own philosophising over this strange, transitional summer. I like to tell the story slowly, asking questions as I go. In Plato’s
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