News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
Topsy-Turvy Land
5 May 2024
...to the Group, click here. Italian Philosopher Becomes Lockdown Sceptic, Shunned by Colleagues Nurses practised social distancing while protesting for better working conditions following the coronavirus pandemic in Rome’s Piazza...
...microscope to see them. How the Government can persuade itself that it’s pumping out this bedwetting propaganda to counter “misinformation” is beyond me. A Philosopher Writes… A left-leaning, Remain-voting, Tory-averse...
...elements, you simply cannot draw any firm conclusion about whether positive test figures reflect a relevant prevalence of infection or not. I’m a philosopher, and I don’t claim to know,...
...Texture Of Authoritarianism Matt Hancock Pinocchio We’re publishing an original article today by philosopher Sean Walsh who thinks the people running the show in the UK are worse than liars...
Governments should never be in thrall to scientists by Sean Walsh The philosopher of science (and incorrigible mischief maker) Paul Feyerabend once wrote this: Unanimity of opinion may be fitting...
...problem which it was intended to solve. Karl Popper, philosopher One of the most unedifying developments in the whole debate about lockdowns has been the descent into ever more polarised...
...and figures, thus rolling out the red carpet for rule by technocracy. Their ideal image is what the Dutch philosopher Ad Verbrugge calls “intensive human husbandry”. Within a biological-reductionist, virological...
In a new essay for Lockdown Sceptics, philosopher lecturer Sinéad Murphy explains how the work of the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer can throw on the Government's handling of the pandemic...
...including the Italian semiotician and cultural critic, Umberto Eco, the Italian critical theorist, Fabio Vighi, the French sociologist and philosopher, Georges Bataille, the German literary critic, Walter Benjamin, the Austrian...
...human thinking is not algorithmic. “Whatever consciousness is, it’s not a computation,” he says. These insights are also echoed by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who, having developed theories of embodied...
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