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Notes from Session 4 of Beyond Seeing, Tate Modern - Touch Tour

Notes from the 4th session of the Tate Modern course 'Beyond Seeing' are available here. This was a 'Touch Tour' led by Marcus Horley.

New edition of Thinking from A to Z published today!

The third edition of my book Thinking from A to Z has come out today in a dinky new format (pocket sized). I hope you like it. New entries include:

• principle of charity
• lawyer's answer
• least worst option
• poisoning the well
• sentimentality
• sunk cost fallacy
• weasel words
• 'you would say that wouldn't you'

Interview with Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

You can listen to an interview with Alain de Botton on the question of the role of beauty in architecture here. This is part of the weekly podcast series 'Philosophy Bites' that I've been making with David Edmonds.

Listen to Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

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Notes on Taboo from V and A course on Surrealism

Notes from the final session of Exploring Surrealism: Chance-Dream-Desire-Taboo are available here.

Notes on Taste and 'Taste' Session 3 of Beyond Seeing, Tate Modern

Notes from Session 3 of Tate Modern course Beyond Seeing are available here.

Philosophy Bites makes the top 20 podcasts on US iTunes!

Philosophy Bites, the new weekly series of Philosophy interviews that I've been making with David Edmonds, has just hit the top 20 in the U.S. iTunes top 100 podcast rankings (all categories). A lot of people out there seem very interested in Philosophy....Here's one possible explanation of what's going on. And my podcast of chapters of  Philosophy: The Classics was at 32 today in the UK top 100 podcast rankings (ahead of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and Start the Week). It's been top of the Philosophy Podcasts iTunes section for several days now and right up at the top of the 'Society and Culture' section too...So who are all these people downloading Philosophy podcasts? Thanks very much if you've dowloaded any of these.

Notes from Session 3 of Surrealism course: Desire

Notes from the Session 3 of  the course I'm leading at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Exploring Surrealism: Chance-Dream-Desire-Taboo, are available here.

Audio interview with Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

You can listen to Miranda Fricker interviewed about epistemic injustice for Philosophy Bites (a series of podcast interviews on Philosophy) here. Her book on this topic Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing is about to be published.  Miranda explains the ethical implications of  prejudices about individuals as sources of knowledge, when their credibility is undermined or not taken seriously. This topic lies at the intersection of epistemology and ethics and has more direct implications for how we live than the rather abstract label might suggest.

Audio interview: John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life

An interview with John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life is now available on Philosophy Bites...
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Notes on Session 2 of Beyond Seeing, Tate Modern

Notes from the second session of the course I'm leading at Tate Modern, Beyond Seeing, including short clips from an interview I made with artist Oswaldo Macia, are available here.

Notes from session one.

Course Outline.

Next week: Taste and 'Taste'...