Next Meeting:  Gary Cox
" Why Did Sartre Write Fiction?"
The author of ‘The Sartre Dictionary’
explores why Sartre wrote stories, novels
and plays as well as theoretical works
and biographies.’

Wednesday July 2nd 7.30 pm, Community Centre, Berrow Road,  Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
 


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Meetings 2008

January 2nd A.G.M  
February 6th Darrell Rowbottom

The Science Delusion

March 5th Nick Hubbard

The Human Experience

April 2nd Antony Lamb

Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff Centre for Life-long Learning and  Post-grad student at Bristol University

The Ethics of War

"The body of thought usually referred to as 'Just War Theory' dominates arguments about morality of war. Does this theory have the resources to yield satisfactory moral judgments regarding modern conditions of 'asymmetric' war?"
 

May 7th Ged Keele

Karl Popper and Scientific Method

June 4th

The Richard Locke Lecture

Dr. Hannah Havi Carel

Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE

 

Can I Be Ill and Happy?

What happens to the good life and to happiness when
health is permanantly absent?

July 2nd Gary Cox

  Why Sartre Wrote Fiction.

'The author of The Sartre Dictionary explores why Sartre wrote stories, novels and plays as well as theoretical works and biographies.'

 

August 6th Social Evening

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September 3rd Dean Machin

Bristol University

 Why Should We Be Democrats?
'If we think that different people have different capacities for good judgement, why give everyone an equal say on political questions?'

October 1st Colin Stott

A Beginner's Guide To Kant

November 5th Andy Hill

Dennett's Theory of Mind and Consciousness

December 3rd Alan Hobbs
Retired lecturer in philosophy from the University of East Anglia
 

The Curse of God Centred Morality
'Why bishops should never be on thought for the day.'