Sam Clark

It comes from a place of love…

England to see automatic tuition fee rises each year from 2026 - Research Professional News Labour government says inflation-linked increases will be tied to teaching quality

This is… more than nothing?

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Spent a lot of time and occasionally money in there while a student in York. Sad to hear it's 'former'.

Thanks for noting Lancaster’s redundancy plans. It‘s a neat extra insult to me and my colleagues to discover this plan as we try to make decisions about voluntary redundancy and think about how to teach our students with much-reduced staffing.

Yeah, came to make the same connection. It's also just insulting to be told 1) Lancaster has a deficit and must make huge staffing cuts; and 2) we're spending a ton of money on a speculative venture.

Again, need for what?

Need for what? That isn't nearly enough to teach the students who want to learn philosophy.

This is a good thing…

Came here to ask if I could share! Thank-you, this is really helpful.

Rawls distinguishes between concepts and conceptions, especially of justice. It’s a long time since I read part III of A Theory of Justice, but he may make the same distinction there about (roughly) welfare.

Hi - maybe a bit older than you’re looking for, but my 2021 book Good Lives (OUP) might be of interest to JOAP readers… with apologies for self-promotion.

But without Moominmamma we are lost.

Extraordinary book. Well worth pairing it with O'Brien's somewhat more memoir-like 'If I Die in a Combat Zone'.

Thank you. Is that the ‘forking paths’ paper?

I’d like to hear more about why not, if you had the time and energy.

Signal amplification:

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So happy I’m not the only one.

(Sorry, not Bee Mask, which is an electronic musician I like, but Bee Speaker, which is also a good name for a band.)

Probably you know this, but Dogs of War now has two sequels, Bear Head (which is among other things bitterly funny political satire) and Bee Mask (which is on my TBR pile).

Excellent tribute. Random fact: the cover photo of that best of album was taken at St Patrick’s chapel Heysham, just up the road from me. We’ve taken the kids there many times.

This is a beautifully short and sharp way of responding to communitarianism. Could be put in terms of ideas of the self too: Sandel (and Parfit in a totally different way) claim that Rawls has the wrong idea of the self/Rawls responds that he doesn't care about the self.

This from Dame Julia Black is good, although I’d like to hear more about the non-economic value of higher education. www.ft.com/content/3162...

Banks himself apparently thought that Consider Phlebas would make a good film. Maybe animated? Especially by the people who made Scavengers’ Reign…

This is a delightful paper, and one more to add to my fantasy ‘let’s read Iain M Banks’s Culture series and do philosophy about it’ syllabus.

‘Sweet bleeding Mithras, take some fucking pride in your work’ is my new motto.

Pre-raphaelite woman comforting unhappy man.

Resources for Early Career Philosophers - British Philosophical Association Getting a permanent position in philosophy is difficult, especially in the current financial climate. But there is a good deal of help and advice available on the process of applying for and securing ...

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Crawly Pauly, surely?

Grandaddy's second album, 'The Sophtware Slump', is even better than their first and appropriately titled.