Anger, and its risks
I’ve just had a piece go up at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/04/anger-bad-for-health-has-uses From early comments maybe I should have been clearer that my goal was, by the end of...
View ArticleTalking to Knut Melvær about the term ‘Spirituality’
Originally posted on Philosophy & Religion Video Interviews:In this video, Dr David Webster asks Knut Melvær about the notion of Spirituality – and Knut gives us some of the historical context: ——-...
View Article“Eugene Park Was Right: Academic Philosophy Is Failing Its Cosmopolitan Values”
Originally posted on Feminist Philosophers:Bharath Vallabha has a post here about philosophical traditions, cosmopolitanism, and universality. “The power of philosophy is that, by raising abstract...
View ArticleAn interview about ‘Indigo Children’:
Originally posted on Philosophy & Religion Video Interviews:In this short video, Dr David Webster asks Cambridge PhD student Beth Singler about her work on Indigo Children. In the conversation we...
View ArticleMysticism, Abuse and Connections: An interview..
Originally posted on Philosophy & Religion Video Interviews:Dr David Webster from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics team at the University of Gloucestershire asks Catherine Tomas, a DPhil...
View ArticleResilience & Melancholy – talking to Dr Robin James about her new book…
Originally posted on Philosophy & Religion Video Interviews:Dr David Webster from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics team at the University of Gloucestershire in conversation with Dr Robin James...
View ArticleCotswold Life? (and pending announcement)
It may amuse some to see my recent profile in a local magazine, more normally reserved for expensive property ads and equine news: click to see Cotswold_Life profile.. On another note – I’ve agreed to...
View ArticleEpisode 7: Is Atheism a Religion?
Originally posted on Unorthodoxy with Witch Zaftig:Episode 7 of Unorthodoxy with Witch Zaftig asks: Is Atheism a Religion? First, we discuss how atheism is defined, then examine how various groups and...
View ArticleUpcoming talks: Buddhism, Halloween, Blues, Stupidity..
I really am not sure what is wrong with me.. I resolved to not give any more talks until the manuscript of The Circle of Stupid was completed. It isn’t (quite). And here I am – posting information...
View ArticleGetting High in the Low Countries.
This is a piece I wrote for the Holdbreaker Climbing blog. The original is on their blog, but they seem to have had some technical issues recently, so am mirroring it here… Middle-age, it seems, is...
View ArticleFaith at Gloucester Cathedral
I was honoured to be featured by the fantastic Gloucester-based artist Russell Haines in his current Faith exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral. He had decided early in the project that an atheist...
View ArticleThe Denial of Death, Masculinity, and a well-lived life
Originally posted on Fruits of the pedagogic life: This post might have ended up on my my Dispirited blog, but there is enough cross-over with recent preoccupations here about grit to persuade me to...
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