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Festival of Philosophy 2019

6/3/2019

 

​THE MEANING OF LIFE
a jazz–philosophy fusion event

Thursday 27th June 2019

The Big Top at Ten Feet Tall in Church Street, Cardiff CF10
doors open at 7.30pm – first talk at 8.00pm – venue closes at midnight

with two live sets from

JAZZ–PHI
a quintet featuring the philosophers
James Tartaglia (Keele University)
Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London)
on saxophones and philosophy
with Steve Tromans on piano, Mike Green on bass, and Tymek Jozwiak on drums


and short talks on existentialism, technology, and purpose by

Alex Dietz (Cardiff University), Mary Edwards (Cardiff University),
Kate Kirkpatrick (Kings College London), Marieke Mueller (Aberystwyth University),
​Orestis Palermos (Cardiff University), and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff University)


entrance free without ticket

Annual Lecture: Hard Choices

3/29/2019

 
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2019


HARD CHOICES

Professor Ruth Chang
Chair of Jurisprudence
University of Oxford


Thursday 16th May at 7pm 

Wallace Lecture Theatre
Cardiff University Main Building

Park Place, Cathays, Cardiff CF10 3AT

Free! No need to book. Doors open at 6.30.

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HARD CHOICES
Professor Ruth Chang (Oxford)


We all face hard choices. What career should I pursue? Should I marry? Have children? How much should I give to charity? Should I give up my car and go vegan in order to help alleviate global warming? In this talk I explain what hard choices are, and what, in particular, makes them hard. It turns out that how we relate to the world in the decisions we make is fundamentally askew. By thinking about our place in the world differently, we uncover a distinctive way of thinking about our hard choices and what to do in the face of them. 

Ruth Chang is Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at University College Oxford, having previously been Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a law associate working on a (pro bono) death penalty case and several (non pro bono) product liability and medical malpractice cases.

Professor Chang's current academic work concerns the nature of values and reasons, decision-making and reasoning, love and commitment, and the nature of the self. Her research has appeared in the media as far afield as Taiwan and Brazil, as well as across Europe and the English-speaking world. She has worked with a variety of industries, including video gaming, pharmaceuticals, head-hunting, banking and finance, and a variety of institutions, including the U.S. Navy, the CIA, National Geographic, and the World Bank.
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Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

3/28/2019

 
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Professor Loredana Polezzi
of Cardiff University

interviews 

Professor Christopher Bertram
of the University of Bristol

on his new book

Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

at Waterstones in The Hayes, Cardiff
which is the biggest bookshop in Wales

​on Tuesday 7th May at 6.30pm

Tickets are £ 3. The book will be available at the event with a £ 3 discount.

Places are limited. So it is advisable to book in advance.
Tickets are available online or in the shop or by phone: 029 2066 5606

​This is a Royal Institute of Philosophy event. Everyone is welcome!

A-level Philosophy resource: Epistemology

5/20/2018

 
Now available! Resource for AS-level and A-level Philosophy on the AQA syllabus.

Experience and Knowledge contains six short original articles with questions and exercises designed to help students develop their own thought on key syllabus topics.

The booklet is free to download and share unchanged for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.

Full information and the booklet itself can be found on our A-level page.

Philosophy of Technology Festival

5/1/2018

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Tickets are still available for Machines, our afternoon festival of philosophy of technology on Tuesday 15th May.

The festival includes a keynote lecture, five smaller talks, and eight roundtable discussions, all for the bargain price of £4, or just £1 for students.

Full information about the festival.

Ticket sales.
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Public Philosophy in Cardiff

4/25/2018

 
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