Thinking through film and music
The way in which film and music explore ideas is very different from the way in which philosophers do so, verbally and logically. But they are still doing philosophy.
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Abolish bank holidays
Bank holidays are a British idiosyncrasy that some former members of our empire continue to honour. Other countries don’t have more of them, they have public holidays instead. This is not a matter of mere terminology. A public holiday is a shared civic commemoration of something important for the society that celebrates it.
ReadThe feeling of achievement
How a mediocre game of tennis reveals the key to the sense of achievement.
ReadAct your age
When I turned 30, too many years ago to mention, I raised a glass and toasted my entry to middle age. Everyone else was shocked by this, thinking I was being premature. Perhaps the real reason for their recoiling was that if 30 really was middle aged, that made the rest of them either middle-aged themselves, too close to it for comfort or—god forbid—old…
ReadBBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking
FREE THINKING – BBC RADIO 3, 26 MARCH. Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me? Anne McElvoy enlists the help of Diversify author June Sarpong, doctor and medical historian Gavin Francis, performer and transgender activist Emma Frankland and philosopher Julian Baggini to tackle contemporary ideas about the ever changing notions of the self. Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead.
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