• Bothy Culture. An ethical alternative...

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    17th November 2023

      This post is available to download as a PDF here and as an audiofile below:     ‘A timely call for genuine companionship on the intellectual journey’. Kwesi Amoak,...
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  • Exploring the impact of ChatGPT and...

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    25th September 2023

    With thanks to ClaudeAI.uk for use of the image This post is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   Universities faced a dilemma when ChatGPT was released: should they embrace...
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  • Book Review: Dalia Nassar, Romantic...

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    20th July 2023

    (Oxford University Press, 2022) Hardback: £56   pp320    ISBN: 9780190095437   This review is available to download as a PDF here.     In Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art...
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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: Fiachra Long, Essays in...

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    24th April 2023

    Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning The Challenge of Proximity (Routledge, 2022; copyright 2023) 202 pp, ISBN: 9781032245744 (HB), 9781003279327 (e-book) £104.00 (HB), £31.19...
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  • The selfless Teacher

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    24th March 2023

    It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that,...
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  • Book Review: Martyn Rawson, Steiner...

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    8th March 2023

      This review is available to download as a PDF here.   Hardback: £115, 212pp., ISBN 9780367333973 Paperback: £24.99, 212pp., ISBN 9780367333980 eBook: £22.49, ISBN...
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  • Why universities should embrace AI...

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    24th February 2023

      This post can be downloaded as a PDF here.   ***   It is difficult not to be impressed by the recently-released ChatGPT, AI software capable of producing a vast array of...
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  • PROBLEMATISING ‘ABLEIST’...

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    31st January 2023

      This post is available to download as a PDF here.   *** The ‘body politic’ is an ancient metaphor by which nations, societies, and public institutions are envisioned through a...
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  • Book Review: Myra Barrs, Vygotsky the...

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    23rd December 2022

    Paperback: £19.99, pp256 ISBN 9780367195410 By Kyrill Potapov University College London, UCL Interaction Centre   This review is also available to download as a PDF here   Vygotsky...
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  • Enabling free inquiry together: A...

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    18th December 2022

        This post can be downloaded as a PDF here     here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work 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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