2014

 05 Jan 2014
Nick Hyman – Declinism: 1914-2014. From Eugenics to Eujonics via Wars and Peak Oil?
 02 Feb 2014
Bob Clarke – On Boundaries
 02 Mar 2014
Heward Wilkinson – Shakespeare as Rip Van Winkle: Historical Amnesia, the Shakespearean Poetic and authorship, and ‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ (TS Eliot)

(Handout)

 06 April 2014
Barbara Thomas – What Influences our Decisions?
 04 May 2014
Heward Wilkinson – Literary Critics as Philosophers? – or Anti-Philosophers? Eliot’s and Leavis’s ambivalent relation to Philosophy and its significance
 01 Jun 2014
Ben Basing – The Ontology of Colour
 06 Jul 2014
Iain Orr – Philosophy and the World Cup in Brazil
 03 Aug 2014
Heward Wilkinson – Kant’s World Creating Ghost in the Machine: The Implications of Kant’s Discovery of Transcendental Self-Consciousness

(Handout)

 07 Sep 2014
Nick Hyman – Strands in Declinism (Part 2)
 05 Oct 2014
Barbara Thomas – Does John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice Refute Isaiah Berlin’s Assertion that, ‘No Commanding work of Political Theory has Emerged in the 20th Century?’

(Handout)

 02 Nov 2014
Bob Clarke – On Boundaries – Part 2
 07 Dec 2014
Bob Clarke – Reflections on the Two Cultures ‘Debate’