2010
Topic | Month |
The life, philosophy and influence of Peter Singer (1946- ) | Nov |
Is excellence achievable or desirable? | Nov |
The lives, philosophies and influences of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905- 1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) | Oct |
Do we love because something is loveable, or do we call loveable whatever we love? | Oct |
The life, philosophy and influence of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) | Sep |
Is happiness really possible in our affluent western culture? | Sep |
The life, philosophy and influence of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) | Aug |
How do we construct a moral framework without religion? | Aug |
The life, philosophy and influence of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | Jul |
How much of what we think and feel is determined by the physical flesh we inhabit? | Jul |
The life, philosophy and influence of Friedrich Nietsche (1844-1900) | Jun |
Is there a collective consciousness apart from our own individual consciousness, i.e. what is group think? | Jun |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) | May |
Reason versus emotion, how do we strike a balance? | May |
The life, philosophy and influence of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | Apr |
Does good character have any relevance in modern society? | Apr |
The life, philosophy and influence of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | Mar |
Morally speaking, can we ever really enjoy life? | Mar |
The life, philosophy and influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712- 1778) | Feb |
Is being a product of thinking? | Feb |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Locke (1632-1704) | Jan |
Is it philosophically defensible to genetically engineer children? | Jan |
2011
Topic | Month |
Are patience and grace philosophical imperatives? | Dec |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Searle (1932 - ) Freedom of speech - what is it and how far should it go | Nov |
(e.g. internet censorship, wikileaks.) | Nov |
The life, philosophy and influence of Noam Chomsky ( 1928 - ) | Oct |
The cycle of service - where does it begin and where does it end? | Oct |
The life, philosophy and influence of Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) | Sep |
Fundamentalism and extremism, religious and otherwise. What drives it, how does it relate to epistemology and how should we respond to it? | Sep |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Rawls (1921 - 2002) | Aug |
Does free market capitalism deliver what it promises? | Aug |
The life, philosophy and influence of Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) | Jul |
What is the true nature of knowledge and how does it differ from wisdom? | Jul |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Dewey (1859-1952) | Jun |
What are the differences between multiculturalism and cultural relativism? | Jun |
The life, philosophy and influence of George Hegel (1770-1831) | May |
What good are we to each other? | May |
The life, philosophy and influence of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | Apr |
What is love and where does it begin? | Apr |
The lives, philosophies and influences of Voltaire (1694-1778) and | |
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | Mar |
How important is belief in creating a happy and fulfilling life? | Mar |
The life, philosophy and influence of John Locke (1632-1704) | Feb |
Scepticism as a philosophy - what do sceptics believe? | Feb |
2012
Topic | Month |
The lives, philosophies and influences of Thales (624-546 BC) and his contemporaries | Jan |
Should we use performance enhancing drugs? | Feb |
Is Confucianism relevant today? | Feb |
What is an ideal education? | Mar |
The life, philosophy and influence of Maimonides (1135-1204 | Mar |
When is a fact a fact? | Apr |
The life, philosophy and influence of Alfred Darski (1902-1983). | Apr |
Are there objective moral truths or merely varying customs? | May |
Margaret Thatcher (1925- ) and her influence on economics, feminism and the social fabric of Britain. | May |
Is philosophy on the threshold of the spiritual life? | Jun |
The human condition and Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) contribution to our understanding of it. | Jun |
If the mind is not separate from the body, what are the implications for psychology and neurology? | Jul |
Pragmatism - did William James (1842-1910) get it right or wrong? | Jul |
Tools for thinking - Mathew Lipman, Phil Cam and Edward de Bono. | Aug |
Henry Thoreau (1817-1862) and Alain de Botton (1969- ) - philosophy and architecture. | Aug |
Should people be allowed to have whatever drugs and medical treatments they want, e.g. experimental drugs and treatments. | Sep |
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) - friendship, fear and otherness. | Sep |
Is wisdom undervalued and if so, why? | Oct |
The life, philosophy and influence of Karl Marx (1818-1883) | Oct |
The life, philosophy and influence of Ayn Rand (1905-1982) | Nov |
The life and works of Leonard Cohen (1934- ). | Dec |