• When Questions Are Held Rather Than...

  

  2nd February 2026

  Philosopher Lani Watson, whose work follows the life of questions, suggests that anyone wishing to understand their role should begin with a basic inquiry: What is a question? She looks to...
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• Resisting the ‘AI gospel’: The...

  

  3rd October 2025

  In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge of advancement and popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. With the publication of several UNESCO (2019; 2021; 2023) documents...
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• Polymathy Lost: On the politics of...

  

  21st July 2025

  (Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)  What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have...
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• Is Philosophy just making stuff up?...

  

  25th June 2025

  One of the most awkward parts of attending conferences, or indeed any work related event, is the requirement to explain what I do. On the train from Sheffield to Oxford for the PESGB annual...
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• Freedom in the classroom

  

  9th May 2025

  Practitioners face questions relating to freedom each day when teaching and planning curricula. How will students engage with the material? How should students be in the learning environment? Do...
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• Musicians wanted - PESGB Conference 2025

  

  7th March 2025

    If you are coming along to the Oxford Conference 60th anniversary, we need your help.  PESGB Flying Circus (philosophy in action - more information here) is seeking philosopher musicians,...
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• Book Review: Martyn Rawson, Steiner...

  

  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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• Bodybildung (Part I)

  

  13th July 2022

    This post is available as a PDF here. ***   Healthy body, healthy mind isn’t a modern but an ancient axiom. In Plato, for canonical example, bodily discipline is a crucial strand of...
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• Book Review: Jana Mohr Lone, Seen and...

  

  10th June 2022

  A written interview with author Jana Mohr Lone is available here.   What might we learn from children if we genuinely listened to them? How could they benefit if we did? Such are the key...
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• What is the meaning of education in a...

  

  16th May 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   As pandemic restrictions are lifted in England and schools and work life begin to return to more of a...
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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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