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Can you think yourself clever?
DS001
| WED |
| 29 |
| OCT |
With Professor A. C. Grayling
A thought-provoking evening, chaired by Paula Kitching, exploring whether philosophy really matters and whether knowledge is useless without thought.
Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are a biography of William Hazlitt.
He has written the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper for several years and he is a regular reviewer for the Literary Review and the Financial Times.
He writes also for the Observer, Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman, and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service.
He is the Editor of Online Review London, Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine. In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society. A past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and has been involved in UN human rights initiative, Anthony Grayling is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2003 was a Booker Prize judge.
Paula Kitching is an historian and writer for education. She was an adviser at the former DfES for over 5 years on citizenship and history, and is currently freelance. She has worked with us for 10 years and as well as being an experienced lecturer on modern cultural history she is an adviser to the Holocaust and Anti-racism Education Department.
SPECIAL STUDENT OFFER: 40 tickets available at the special price of £10 for students under 25, with a valid student card.
A thought-provoking evening, chaired by Paula Kitching, exploring whether philosophy really matters and whether knowledge is useless without thought.
Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are a biography of William Hazlitt.
He has written the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper for several years and he is a regular reviewer for the Literary Review and the Financial Times.
He writes also for the Observer, Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman, and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service.
He is the Editor of Online Review London, Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine. In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society. A past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and has been involved in UN human rights initiative, Anthony Grayling is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2003 was a Booker Prize judge.
Paula Kitching is an historian and writer for education. She was an adviser at the former DfES for over 5 years on citizenship and history, and is currently freelance. She has worked with us for 10 years and as well as being an experienced lecturer on modern cultural history she is an adviser to the Holocaust and Anti-racism Education Department.
SPECIAL STUDENT OFFER: 40 tickets available at the special price of £10 for students under 25, with a valid student card.