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📢 Are you a #Philosophy PhD student looking for opportunities to speak about your research?
We're inviting current doctoral students to showcase their work to an online audience of TRIP members.
Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org…
#phdstudent #callforpapers #seminar
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What purpose does imagery serve in philosophy? Does it differ from poetic imagery?
Michael Rosen discusses the role of imagery in philosophical arguments in describing how the nature of the discipline has evolved.
Watch his full lecture here: buff.ly/qEBtbPG
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Does x=y? We'd like to clarify that our recent speaker, Prof Michael Rosen of @Harvard is a different person from poet and national treasure @MichaelRosenYes. Despite their many commonalities, we've checked and Prof Michael does not have the property "Bear Hunt author".
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In 2024-25, we reached over 45,000 people through our philosophical activities. 📈
That's the equivalent of a packed football stadium, or a busy crowd at Glastonbury! 🎸
💡 Please share this post to help us reach even more people, with real philosophy for everyone, in 2025-26.
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Are we making progress in philosophy?
Michael Rosen critiques the early analytical philosophers’ opinions in this clip.
Watch his full lecture here: youtu.be/CmxMHKvK04E
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Happy #InternationalDayOfEducation! 💡🌱
🌍✨ What do you think are the best ways to make #philosophy #education more accessible? Is there anything more we and other organisations should be doing to promote real philosophy, for everyone?
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Would you still love me if I was a worm? 🪱
Philosopher Jack Morgan Jones explores how the object of one's love can change radically over time, in the latest edition of THINK journal.
📚 Read the open-access article here: buff.ly/OoyI8tJ
#philosophy #personalidentity
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Why doesn't the history of philosophy involve the resolution of problems the way other disciplines do?
Some philosophical problems remain with us, while the nature of philosophy has been re-configured.
Watch Micheal Rosen's lecture on this issue here:
buff.ly/qEBtbPG
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✨Tackle the big questions, in this year's THINK Essay Prize for 15-18 year olds. Open for entries now 📝
More info at royalinstitutephilosophy.org…
#philosophy #essay #competition #Alevels
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How have ideas of relational equality developed in the past 100 years? ⚖️
Don't miss this forthcoming #London #Lecture by TRIP President Jonathan Wolff, Social Equality: Then and Now.
🎟️ Get tickets here: buff.ly/WQ4gFXS
#politicalphilosophy #socialequality #philosophy
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✨ 🚀 Level up with TRIP membership, and get access to this exclusive online talk by philosopher and gamer C. Thi Nguyen. @add_hawk
He'll offer a timely guide to the joy of games and the danger of metrics, and how to rewrite the rules.
👇 Find out more: buff.ly/URJiDph
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🎧 🎙️ Looking for a new #podcast to kickstart the weekend? Here's a good listen from The Big Smoke Variety Show.
In this episode, TRIP Academic Director Edward Harcourt joins host Kevin Bennett to talk all things #philosophy.
✨ Listen here: buff.ly/wMp86xi
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How do you teach #philosophy in #prison? Paul and Dan, founders of our Prisons education programme, spoke to The Big Smoke Variety Show #podcast, about sparking reflection and discovery where freedom of thought is most deeply desired.
Listen here: buff.ly/fKoB1mz
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In this clip from Professor Jo Wolff’s talk to membership, he discusses an argument against value-free science put forth by several papers published in Philosophy in the past 100 years.
Join our membership for access to more upcoming members’ events: buff.ly/ZGzYwVf
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Happy #WorldLogicDay! Here's an accessible article on logic in everyday thinking from @PhilosophyNow.
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Happy @UNESCO #WorldLogicDay! “Anyone can improve their capacity to reason by learning some #logic,” writes Marianne Talbot in "Critical Reasoning" (issue 106). A great intro to how logic sharpens everyday thinking: philosophynow.org/issues/106…
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🧠 Ever been puzzled by a paradox? Or persuaded by the powerful mastery of logic? 🧩
Today, on UNESCO World Logic Day, we celebrate the role of logical reasoning in philosophy.
How has logic influenced your thinking?
#WorldLogicDay #LogicDay #philosophy #paradox #logic
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📱⌚ Desperately seeking social media likes? Stop playing someone else's game! 🚫🎮
🗓️ Our first members-only event of the year kicks off on 20 Jan with @add_hawk C. Thi Nguyen's 'The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game'.
🎟️👇 Info here: buff.ly/C8f5f6E
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💡 What is the role of imagination in political communities as democracies?
⚠️ There are just a few tickets left for the London Lecture by Michele Moody-Adams on Imagining Democracy.
🎟️ Get tickets here: buff.ly/XTeAU04
#politicalphilosophy #lecture #philosophy
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Didn't get a ticket? You can still watch online! 🎥✨
A few of our forthcoming #philosophy lectures have sold out, but we upload videos of all our lectures to YouTube, so everyone can see them. Why not take a look at our archive?
▶️ Browse our channel: buff.ly/kO9jo72
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