The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by Robin Attfield Book cover for Attfield (2024). Taken from the Polity Press catalogue. Polity Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781509559084, Hbk. ISBN: 9781509559091, Pbk. ISBN: 9781509559107, eBook. RRP: £50.00 / £14.99, 276pp. Recent opinion poll…
Nathaniel Woodward reflects on his experience visiting The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives in New York Researching about something as enigmatic as the art-network Fluxus has been frustrating, but largely rewarding; I have been just as puzzled by…
Paula Ambrossi reflects on the annual PESGB Conference, New College, University of Oxford (22 – 24 March, 2024). It was a pleasant March afternoon when I descended the train at Oxford and made my way to New College. The first…
Pedagogies of Taking Care by Dennis Atkinson Bloomsbury, 2022 ISBN: 9781350288324, Hbk. RRP: £85.50, 272pp This article is available to download as a PDF here. Can we design schools whose central…
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 his earlier philosophical explorations into the nature of consciousness and its…
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, Mellon PhD Student, Institute of African Studies (IAS) University of…
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 or ban it from higher education? In…
(Oxford University Press, 2022) Hardback: £56 pp320 ISBN: 9780190095437 This review is available to download as a PDF here. In Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art and Ecology Dalia Nassar (2022) attempts to forge a connection between romanticism and…
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 articles analysing such developments which reflect views…
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 (e-book) *** This review can be downloaded as a PDF here. *** This elegantly-written…
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, whilst seemingly innocuous and aligned with teaching, I argue is damaging and dangerous…
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 9780429319679 This is a good academic introduction to the ideas behind the worldwide movement…