Terry Hyland

Emeritus Professor
Terry Hyland

Terry Hyland is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Greater Manchester and Co-Director/Trustee and Lecturer in Philosophy at the Free University of Ireland in Dublin where he now lives. He has published widely on a diverse range of philosophy of education topics, with principal interests in vocational, affective and moral education.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8539-8211

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Posts by this Author

  • Book Review: The War on Science

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    13th November 2025

    The War on Science edited by Lawrence M. Krauss Book cover for Krauss (2025). Taken from the Forum catalogue. Forum, 2025. ISBN: 9781800756182, Hbk. ISBN: 9781800756199, eBook. RRP: £16.39 /...
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  • Book Review: Why? The Purpose of the...

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    29th January 2024

    Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN: 9780198883760, Hbk. RRP: £14.99, 287pp     Philip Goff’s new book represents an extension of...
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  • AI Applications and Non-Human Persons

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    13th June 2023

      This post is available to download as a PDF here. ****   The appearance in recent times of Open AI’s ChatGPT series and Google’s Bard application has resulted in a spate of...
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  • Book Review: David J. Chalmers,...

    27th November 2022

    This review is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   Book Review: David J. Chalmers, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (London: Penguin 2022) Hardback: £25,...
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  • Mindfulness Education and the Divided...

    Image of brain, seen from above, divided in two; right side of the brain is multicoloured, in the left are mathematical equations; colours exceed the line of the image, the effect is of paint splashes on the page.

    13th September 2022

    This post can be downloaded as a PDF here.   *** Mindfulness has become something of a boom industry over the last few decades thanks largely to the work of Kabat-Zinn (1990) who developed a...
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  • Consciousness, Scientific Materialism...

    8th November 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here and as an audio recording below:     Like individualism and the belief in free will, the materialist worldview derived from mainstream science...
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