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When:
March 12, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
2014-03-12T18:00:00+00:00
2014-03-12T19:30:00+00:00
Where:
Ashmolean Museum, Education Centre
Ashmolean Museum
University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
UK
Ashmolean Museum
University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Constantine Sandis
Philosophy has had a hard time in the press lately. It’s said that philosophy is dead, that is is without content, that it has made no progress in nearly two and a half thousand years. Philosophy departments have been closed by those who say it’s an unjustifiable expense. Philosophers, memorably, have been called the gym teachers of academia. Philosophical chestnuts like the problem of free will are said to have scientific solutions, not philosophical ones. Is this criticism justified? Does philosophy still matter?
Dr. James Garvey works for the Royal Institute of Philosophy and is editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine.