COMMON SENSE VS SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - IS ONE MORE "TRUE" THAN THE OTHER?
A dive into the philosophy of Pragmatism developed by William James and whether our scientific understanding is our best guide to "truth".
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EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION – JOHN DEWEY
John Dewey is one of America’s greatest philosophers, and one who took a particular interest in the theory of education. In none of his...
ADVICE TO TUTORS APPLYING FOR LONG-TERM POSITIONS
Applications for our long-term positions are highly competitive: we normally receive well over one hundred applications for each job. In...
AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us....
HOW TO READ A POEM
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table So begins T.S. Eliot’s...
THE NATURE OF TIME
William Brooke’s film The Nature of Time explores the physics and philosophy of time and whether what we perceive to be the passing of...
PARENTING AND THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Parenting is much debated, generally with the aim of helping parents raise happy, confident, spontaneous, competent, competitive and...
WHY ONLY US - LANGUAGE AND EVOLUTION
The questions of how language evolved, the nature of language and what language is for are of central concern to Linguistics and...
WHAT ACTUALLY IS A NUMBER? PLATO, PICTURE PROOFS & THE MATHEMATICAL REALM
What actually is a number? Do numbers and mathematical objects actually exist, or have they been invented by mankind with no independent...
SKEPTICISM & TRUST IN SCIENCE
Over recent years, scientific institutions and journals have increasingly been expressing their concerns about the public’s growing...
RHETORIC BLOG SERIES - SPEAKING TO LARGE AUDIENCES
Public speaking is a craft which can only be mastered through practice and planning. In this series of blog posts we will be looking at...
USING MATHS TO SOLVE COVID TESTING
As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on into winter, countries around the globe are trying to optimise their testing programmes in order to...
OUR TOP TEN TED TALKS
What Makes People Engage with Math | Grant Sanderson Grant Sanderson discusses looking past the symbols and abstractions commonly used to...
ACHILLES & THE TORTOISE
The notion of infinity, and the problems that arise from it, both philosophical and mathematical, have been a central concern for...
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