Self-help: Myth or reality?
NEW PODCAST now available here of panel discussion with Paul Dolan and Barbara J Sahakian, chaired by Ilina Singh. Recorded at the[…]
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Feed Your Mind
THE VIRTUES OF THE TABLE − LONDON, 14 MARCH. Talking about my new book at King’s College London’s Feed Your Mind festival, at 1pm.
ReadMust challenge mean confrontation?
The intellectual modus operandi in Britain is one of adversarial conflict. In the debating chambers of Oxbridge, the high courts, the nation’s parliament, and even news programmes, good, rigorous debate is equated with polarised, confrontational discussion. To argue well is to win, to agree is to concede, and to refuse to come down clearly on one side or the other is to be woolly and evasive. No wonder then that the typical Brit is unable to distinguish between a legitimate challenge that deserves consideration and an outright attack that needs to be repelled.
ReadHow free are we?
A necessary illusion is likely to contain an unavoidable truth. In the case of free will, that truth is that human beings do things for reasons and are able to modify their behaviour on the basis of argument and evidence. Is that free will? You decide.
ReadSalon London
SALON LII: HEALTH – LONDON, 6 MARCH. “Salon London takes a lateral look at Health, as we gambol in to our Spring series of Health, Wealth and Happiness. Speaking on same bill as neuro-biologist Professor Steven Rose and Sound Therapist Otto Haddad.
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