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The Lucy Show (or how to nobble physicists using unfair tactics)
I have never been fond of name dropping, but like Neil Innes, I am prepared to suffer a lot for my music. Now it’s your turn … However, Martin Rees, astronomer royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and all-round respectable clever clogs is on record as saying that there is almost certainly intelligent life elsewhere…
_Fons et origo_: on Freedom and Originality
The phrase ‘fons et origo’ is Latin for ‘source and origin’. It is in this context that we say that Ancient Athens is the fons et origo of democracy, for example. The word ‘fons’ also has the more literal meaning of ‘spring’ or ‘fountain’, and so the source of the River Thames (near Cirencester in…
Divine Hoorays: or ‘The Will to Power’ revisited
Now, I have a reputation for being able to teach most areas of philosophy. There are exceptions, of course, such as strange, continental-flavoured modules like ‘Feminist Philosophy’ and ‘Marxism’, but that is broadly correct. An odd mixed sort of module is ‘Philosophy of Religion’. Now, as everyone knows, analytical philosophers do not do silly obscure…
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