Philosophy Thoughts as and when

We cannot rewrite history. The following selection of emails shows clearly that Professor Anthony W Price was my undergraduate supervisor from start (July 2012 consultation) to finish (March 2013, 2nd/final supervision) and nobody else gave me any input.  As you can see, Professor A W Price and I got on famously during the degree. And he never even mentioned Plato once during supervisions!  However, he seemed, inexplicably, to 'go off the boil' after I graduated (see my example at end of this blog post), leaving me without any support or references from someone who had both supervised my research thesis and been one of only 4 lecturers who were my tutorial tutors / markers in my final year.  A W Price conducted and marked my 2nd term tutorials for the History of Philosophy {Ancient Philosophy, focusing on Aristotle}   The other three markers were: Michael Garnett (Political Philosophy, 2nd term) Sarah Patterson (History of Philosophy {Early Modern} 1st term) Chr...

Today I'm springing off from a strange article about psychiatry and the Philosophy of Madness, posted on TPM's Facebook....Long-winded too! You can read it  here .  Foucault is probably the best at discussing this subject matter. I'm reading an exciting book about him at the moment. I've already read one of Foucault's texts before looking at secondary literature. That way I can be more critical of any secondary literature I come across. I avoid reading secondary literature before reading the original text. My mother taught me that. She was taught at school to always read original texts before reading literary criticism. As for Philosophy of Psychiatry? Really? Philosophy of Psychology, yes, that came up at uni but I didn't take that option. I went for Politics, Ethics, & Aesthetics, as options. History of Philosophy and Ep and Met were compulsory final year level core modules, anyway. So they were never up as an option. Hence, I've stayed within the Hist...

Updated 19th April 2025:  NB: Clearly people have not understood this section below on mentorship. 🙄 So I'll explain it a bit further. Just as Sue and I are mutually in love with each other so we have a mutual mentorship model. Yes it's a thing. It's not unusual. And indeed any Professor of Leadership worth their salt will confirm that this model is a very good one and works splendidly. We use it and it works for us. We both have a lot to offer each other. In academia, there's what some male Professors call 'camps', other male researchers term 'factions'. These may be a group of people who adhere to a particular academic, or it may be an individual who adheres to one particular academic because that person can connect with that academic as a person and can identify with their Philosophy and so wish to advocate their philosophy as well as develop themselves along their lines.  I am, and always have only been, since early 2010, an academic adherent of Pr...

Further to my previous post: 8 years ago today, to the date, I posted this 👇 regarding my undergraduate dissertation (BA (Hons) Philosophy). So why do I need to keep repeating myself?    

It is now four years to the date that I first blogged about the totally disgraceful way my BA dissertation title and research area submission was completely unprofessionally handled. So I had assumed that there was no longer any confusion as to how this administrative disaster occurred and unfairly impacted on my education and undergraduate research. A student is not meant to be forced to suffer discrimination, bullying, disempowerment and being deprived of viable educational opportunities, while simply submitting their own dissertation title and research area of interest on time. No matter how you look at it, there are no excuses. It breeches just about everything you could attempt to breech during the supervisor allocation process.  However, it has come to my attention that philosophers are still unable to grasp the basics of exactly just how out of line, rule breaking and frankly abusive the rejection of my chosen dissertation and supervisor misallocation was. 'What the devil...

Further to my previous post on this blog 'Of Public Interest: How Universities can Abuse the Post-Grad Application System', I would like to raise awareness of just how many details, including very simple tasks, can be made to go wrong during the postgraduate application process. I would also like to show the level and severity of how an applicant can be deliberately misled, misinformed and denied key information about vital stages of the application system, in ways which aim to disempower them, manipulate them, be totally disrespectful towards them and abuse their human rights and data. And all the applicant receives as an answer is a pile of lies and excuses that don't hold water.  After this 2016-17 MRes application saga: Don't even think of asking me to file any form of complaint/challenge, or application or re-application there.  Don't ask me to show any interest in this university I applied to, be it their Open Days or their Events (academic or otherwise).  And...