The Things That Really Matter. Philosophical Conversation on the Cornerstones of Life - Online Book Launch
4:00pm - 5:00pm /
Wednesday 1st June 2022
Type: Other /
Category: Department
- Prof Michael Hauskeller (Philosophy)
- Suitable for: All welcome!
- Admission: Free. Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 4-5 pm. With: Michael Hauskeller, Alexander Badman-King, Drew Chastain, Lewis Coyne, Jane Heal, Troy Jollimore, Holly Lawford-Smith, Christine Overall, Elaine Scarry, Helen Steward, Alison Stone, Brian Treanor, and Panayiota Vassilopoulou. While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in all this is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred. Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal. To register, please visit https://thethingsthatreallymatter.eventbrite.co.uk The event will take place online, zoom details to follow.
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A PDF of the book can be downloaded for free here https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/186670
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 4-5 pm.
With: Michael Hauskeller, Alexander Badman-King, Drew Chastain, Lewis Coyne, Jane Heal, Troy Jollimore, Holly Lawford-Smith, Christine Overall, Elaine Scarry, Helen Steward, Alison Stone, Brian Treanor, and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in all this is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred.
Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.
To register, please visit https://thethingsthatreallymatter.eventbrite.co.uk
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 4-5 pm.
With: Michael Hauskeller, Alexander Badman-King, Drew Chastain, Lewis Coyne, Jane Heal, Troy Jollimore, Holly Lawford-Smith, Christine Overall, Elaine Scarry, Helen Steward, Alison Stone, Brian Treanor, and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in all this is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred.
Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.
To register, please visit https://thethingsthatreallymatter.eventbrite.co.uk