• What do I mean by ‘autonomy’?...

  

  8th September 2025

  Francisco Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (1799).  With the support of a small grant from the PESGB, I recently attended the Association for Moral Education’s annual conference,...
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• Phronesis and Virtue: Reflections from...

  

  13th May 2025

  An allegory of wisdom, attributed to Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609–1681) Phronesis and Virtue: Reflections from Gdańsk I am a full-time maths teacher at an inner-city comprehensive school in...
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• Medical Education and Huntington’s...

  

  21st February 2025

  "In the last 4 weeks, have you experienced any feelings of depression or apathy?" (short pause) "No." I’m a terrible liar. I’d recently had a fall out with a friend which had been...
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• Book Review: The Ethics of the Climate...

  

  12th July 2024

  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,...
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• AI Applications and Non-Human Persons

  

  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: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing...

  

  27th November 2022

  This review is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   Book Review: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing from the Inside: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments with Matters of Pedagogy (Bloomsbury...
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• Civil Liberties & the Need for Lordean...

  

  10th October 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   The British government doesn’t want us talking about race. More precisely: it doesn’t want us talking about structural and...
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• A Socialist in Disneyland

  

  20th June 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   Disneyland Paris celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Opened as ‘EuroDisney’ in 1992, the park is the...
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• A School for Thought II: Thinking &...

  

  30th May 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   In a previous post I worried about the lack of real thinking in our schools. A couple of weeks...
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• The Ukraine Conflict: The Spectre of...

  

  5th April 2022

  This post is available to download here. ***   As I watch in horror the barbarity of the Ukrainian conflict unfold, I am reminded of the ineluctable charm of the notion of ‘fixed’...
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• Thoughtwashing: A Modern Curse?

  

  26th January 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   Within philosophy classrooms in universities there is a practice which we have termed ‘thoughtwashing’. We...
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• Education, Social Reforms and...

  

  15th December 2021

    This post can be downloaded and read as a PDF here.   This post offers a synopsis of Richard Pring’s new book, Purpose of the book, Education, Social Reform and Philosophical...
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