Patrick O'Connor

Station Approach, 1962, by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976). Exchange Station, Manchester, built 1884, closed 1969, subsequently demolished. #NorthernArt

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology.👇

Still places available to study in September at University of Staffordshire's MA Continental Philosophy.👇

Kyren!!!

Finally got around to reading this. Andy West's unique memoir of teaching Philosophy in UK prisons. Highly recommended.

A post from Catherine's Giving Page Day 1! 100 squats complete - started out in the gym with Jacqui my PT and made it fun with different types of squats. She also showed me how to stretch out my hamstrings and hips which I’ll need since...

Day 1! 100 squats complete - started out in the gym with Jacqui my PT and made it fun with different types of squats. She also showed me how to stretch out my hamstrings and hips which I’ll need since there are no rest days. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/catheri...

Well...never thought of them like that before.

Kerry win All Ireland Senior Football final for the 39th time | RadioKerry.ie Kerry are the All Ireland Senior Football Champions for 2025.The Kingdom beat hopeful finalists Donegal by 10 points, with a final score of 1-26 to 0-19.

An Ríocht Abú! 💚💛💚💛💚💛💚

#allirelandfinal #kerrygaa

www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-w...

@matthewbarnard.phd

@multiplicityct.bsky.social Heidegger talk! 👆

New podcast on Thales' Well: Matt Barnard [@matthewbarnard.phd ] joins me to talk about freedom and what it means to exist without falling into the usual free will vs determinism trap. Lots of Kant and Heidegger talk.

Listen in below or Spotify, Pockets Casts etc.

I wonder why they didn't go with 'University off Coventry' - two F's are better than one and all that.

Beyond redemption....?!

You certainly thought me something there. And there here I was, for years, jamming them between a door and it's frame!

Not at the moment, but will be when I get a chance. Get back to me. There will be an auto-generated one via Spotify, but can't comment on its accuracy. Auto-transcribe tends not to mix well with an Irish accent.

Telepathy Proof Room – Alan Turing’s Human Machines Posthumanism and Technology · Episode

New podcast audio essay. Revisiting Alan Turing’s famous 1950 paper on thinking machines. I found surprisingly a strange, funny, and quietly haunting piece. Intelligence as performance, not essence. Even includes telepathy!

#AI #TuringTest #philosophy #podcast

On spotify and usual podcast places>

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

a man singing into a microphone while another man plays a guitar . ALT: a man singing into a microphone while another man plays a guitar .

Oasis pretty much giving me a second free gig at Heaton Park. I can hear them indoors! Cheers lads!

They sound really tight!

#oasis #manchester

Good for you!

a black and white photo of a band with the words definitely maybe Alt: a black and white photo of a band with the words definitely maybe

Just great to see everybody walking by my house to enjoy the gig in Heaton Park, Manchester. Hope they have a brilliant time.

#oasis #manchester

Recreation of world's first alarm clock.

Cheers Plato!

I just wanted to write a small thing about Diogo Jota from a Wolves perspective. He came to the club at the moment of our transformation from a mid-level Championship team to a decent Premier League team. He was a big part of what I will remember as a golden age. 1/5

"Intra-university cross-subsidisation schemes and thin financial reserves at the university level exacerbate the pressure..."

I take it he doesn't mean Humanities courses subsidising the overheads ot costly depts!

Bernie Sanders in a winter coat, with a chilly suburban scene behind him, saying, “I am once again asking for you to read your Derrida.”

Starting on Derrida’s lecture course, Heidegger: The Question of Being & History with the Staffs PhD crew if you want to join in here.

(You probably want to read it.)

We would like to express our deepest condolences, and send our love and prayers to the family, friends, and all those at Liverpool Football Club following the tragic passing of forward Diogo Jota in a car accident. 💔

Official British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Discord!!

In hopes of building a stronger postgraduate philosophy community and knowing our members better, we have created a discord channel! For debates, events and writing sessions, click the link below to join!
discord.gg/MTfyPnhkpe

Thanks Chris, hope you enjoy. Audio is a little wonky, as Terry was on the road, but should be listenable.

My conversation with Hegel biographer Terry Pinkard. We discuss Hegel's famous 'Phenomenology of Spirit.'

thaleswell.podbean.com/e/on-hegels-...

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

Really, if one thinks on it, AI actually hollow out the skills agenda. Why do classes on skills, leadership, change mgt. etc, when AI can summarize that stuff in an instant? We need to make things harder!

Also, I think a lot of the upper echelons of HE mgt. likes AI because it sounds like them.