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11 March, Dean Zimmerman, "Divine Bootstrapping:  Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?" On 11 March, Professor Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) will deliver a talk entitled "Divine Bootstrapping: Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?" at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Date: 11 March 2026...

Coming up next week in Oxford, Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) on divine unity! Free and open to all, Wednesday 11 March, 3pm-4:45pm, the Aula, Blackfriars Hall www.humanephilosophy.com/single-post/...

Dan Came: J.S. Bach's Prelude from Lute Suite No. 4 in E Major, BWV 1006a YouTube video by Dan Came

Our extremely talented LSHH philosopher, Daniel Came, takes a break from thinking about Nietszche to play some Bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6qX...

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026: Books and Archives To register for this free online event please visit our Eventbrite page.

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Our MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026 will be running from 23 March.

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What It's Like To Be A Worm Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net.

Are earthworms sentient? What about microscopic nematode worms? Or single-celled organisms?

Here is a deep dive I wrote for Asimov Press magazine about what investigations at the scale of neurons tell us about sentience.
www.asimov.press/p/sentience

The Great Panathenaea Old Sovereign Publishing are delighted to launch The Great Panathenaea.    This is the event of 2026.    A $2000 prize and a book contract with 10% royalties (on the full RRP).  The two finalists will...

Have you always wanted to write a drama based on the Lives of Plutarch?

Then my friend and former student's publishing house has the competition for you!

$2000 prize plus a book contract with 10% royalties, and your play performed on the London stage!

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Classical statues were not painted horribly Did the Greeks and Romans have different tastes, paint badly, or have the reconstructors of classical statues been trolling us?

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @ralphstefanweir.bsky.social & @worksinprogress.blogsky.venki.dev!

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Were classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress Magazine Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.

Online version out today worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...

I had a great time earlier this week speaking to 650+ A Level students about philosophy of religion at Bloomsbury Baptist Church for Academy Learning.

Also got in a mention of the amazing philosophy programmes we have here at @uolhumanities.bsky.social.

I am delighted to have received my copy of the inaugural print edition of Works in Progress, featuring my article on whether classical statues really looked like the garish reconstructions one sometimes encounters

Works n Progress is an amazing magazine, and I'm extremely proud to be involved

When the Dying Wake: What Terminal Lucidity Reveals A phenomenon that may be beyond neuroscientific explanation.

Recent piece in Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live!

This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...

@jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social makes a great observation

Print - Works in Progress Magazine

Works in Progress is an amazing magazine of new ideas. Defying wider trends in publishing, it is moving from online only to print as well. This will be the most beautiful and intelligent magazine in existence and you should really consider subscribing. worksinprogress.co/print/

Departing Split to end the summer conference season in Rome

University of Lincoln students victorious after win on iconic quiz show It's the first time the university has had a team compete on the popular show

Massive congratulations to our brilliant University Challenge team, including two LSHH team members, for winning in Lincoln's first appearance on the show! Looking forward to round 2!! www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? Yes! When controlling for baseline differences, philosophy students outperform all other disciplines on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind

Artistic Networks of Trust The Calouste Gulbenkian Conference in Art History, in its second edition, offers a reflection on networks of trust in the art world, through the lens of Calouste Gulbenkian’s life and transnational ac...

Upcoming conference in beautiful Lisbon this October on "Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, organised by LSHH's Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/age...

DEBATE: Is mind-body interaction a problem for dualism? Ralph Stefan Weir vs. Ben Watkins Ralph Stefan Weir and Ben Watkins debate whether there is a sound argument from mental causation to materialism. The argument goes roughly as follows: Our minds cause bodily movements. Bodily movement...

I will be debating the interaction problem for mind-body dualism with the great philosophy podcaster Ben Watkins at 6pm this evening UK time (1pm EST), hosted by Emerson Green. Please join us! www.youtube.com/live/-P2k1pG...

Was Heraclitus a Hindu? An evaluation of Thomas McEvilley's "scholarly proof" of the influence of the Upanishads on the great pre-Socratic.

What Heraclitus a Hindu?? You probably thought no, but I'm going to tell you... maybe! afternature.substack.com/p/was-heracl...

One could argue that neuroscience should be methodologically behaviourist, treating such reports as observable behaviours only, and not as testimony about inner mental states. However, that is not, how neuroscience is actually practiced, or how most neuroscientists think

People often suggest that to qualify as *science* a theory must be based on publicly observable evidence. But in fact, neuroscience relies heavily on private experience. Investigators ask people what they can see, how much pain they feel, etc.

LSHH researcher Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan's new book on Armenian architecture, supported by the Barakat Trust, comes out later this year. Read about it here! shorturl.at/729mX

Almost time for the 2025 student edition of the Lincoln Philosophy Salon! Looking forward to public talks on art and morality, personhood, and the quantum measurement problem by three of our brilliant current students

The purpose of a building is how it looks True functionalism combines utility and beauty

Here I am explaining what the deal is with functionalist architecture at Works in Progress substack.com/home/post/p-...

Congratulations to everyone celebrating their graduation in Uphill Lincoln this lovely evening!

Could you have been an alligator? | Philosophy of Personal Identity YouTube video by Emerson Green

Honoured to feature in Emerson Green's latest episode, in which he gives a great intro to the problem of personal identity over time m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKg...