Philosophy Thoughts as and when

Following on from my previous post, I know that my dissertation was put through turnitin by someone (I set up a turnitin account as we were asked to do) because I have an email receipt dated 6 June 2013 which clearly shows this is the case. It looks as though I put it through because turnitin thanks me in that auto-email. I didn't manage to upload it to Turnitin. But obviously somebody did, especially since there is a copy of my dissertation on Turnitin. It is technically possible for someone other than the student to upload students' work to turnitin, which turnitin expects to be the instructor ie. the tutor marking the work, not an administrator (such as the admin Team Leader, Robert Brown). Turnitin expects the uni's admin to check that the correct tutors are written down and verified.  Indeed, I note that turnitin's info on their website states that it is part of universities' Acceptable Use Policy (and consequently their legal agreement with turnitin) that univ...

Just to clear up any possible confusion: I have been an Independent Researcher since July 2013, having completed my BA Philosophy degree in May (all exams done☑️; coursework (two Level 6 extended essays) and dissertation submitted 20/05/13 and handed-in☑️ together with the anti-plagiarism statement* see below) and no longer a student as of June 2013 because it was the end of my course. My college ID card and my Senate House Library card also expired in June. Therefore, I waited until July 31st (date of transcript) before becoming an Independent Researcher/Scholar. This is because you cannot be a student and an Independent Researcher and Scholar simultaneously. The word 'independent' means not studying in an institution or even being affiliated to one. It also means not using their resources which, in my case, meant BBK's library and Senate House Library. A nd certainly not being funded by them. In June 2013 BBK offered to pay the fees for my final year that the government g...

Woke is good. It means being aware and alert to discrimination and injustices in society and the world in general. The opposite of it is just being rude, totally insensitive to others and plain anti-social in that you lack understanding and awareness of injustice, prejudice and discrimination and dismiss it, and any suffering arising from it, as unimportant, exaggerated and see 'woke' as amounting to a left-wing crazy notion.  Universities are not left wing, as people seem to assume, not sure they ever were in any meaningful way! It's an ideological myth to think so! For instance, Kings College, (KCL) which used to be a London Uni college, was founded by a king (King George IV) for the purpose of running after liberals and secularists at London University. London Uni (founded 1826, now UCL) was supported by Utilitarians e.g. JS Mill; Jews and non-conformists with the aim of being a secular institution (which was why I went there!!). 3 years later, in 1829, up pops Kings Col...

As a result of the incident 20th January 2010 (see previous post), the fake p**n profile and the culture of fear the male lecturer generated, I collected phobias, including even going to the Uni library alone, which was unavoidable. I couldn't walk down that street alone for ages because every time I did I recalled the experience and the rising panic kept returning as I remembered the pitch dark and not knowing where to run to. This was not helped by the timetable for the following year (2nd yr) unnecessarily scheduling tutorials between 8-9 pm, several months after I'd already reported these incidents and more. A tutor himself wrote that 8pm-9pm is not a “particularly pleasant” time to have a tutorial! (Or a lecture or seminar!)  I told my personal tutor about the incident in the street (20th January 2010). He claimed in an email that he was meeting the head of the university's security later that day (1st February 2010). He wrote that "I hope by the time we meet this...

As we mourn the death of Sarah Everard, all women are recounting their experience(s) of fear on finding themselves alone in the dark on a street being followed by a man. Inevitably, I found myself doing the same.  As it's the last day of Women's History Month, I'm sharing the following: Here’s what happened to me on Wednesday, 20th January 2010 while a 1st year philosophy uni student, aged 23:  After my evening lectures at university (6pm-8pm), I leave the building with the male lecturer to discuss the issues I raised with a PhD student the previous day, in short: harassment and stalking (his word) problems I'm experiencing at uni; a fake profile on a p**n dating website in my name; a photographer randomly taking a photo of me while I'm having a substitute tutorial with my tutorial tutor/a PhD student in a cafe. After the lecture, he told me that the PhD student had told him about it and that we should discuss it further in the street. So, after he spoke to several ...

Speaking of emails, I received an email and letter on 22/03/12 from someone in the wider college, who was also responsible for exams, which I found very disturbing and confusing, based as it was, on lies, character assassination and threats that a formal complaint could be brought against me which could result in me being thrown out of college. Who was going to bring this formal against me? That was left vague. I suppose he wants me to think it'll be Susan James. But that couldn't be the case because we didn't have an issue to solve and we hadn't sat down together to attempt to resolve it between us before taking it to that formal stage. He should know that. So he's unprofessional in suggesting this was even possible because this is a prerequisite before submitting a formal complaint. I know it and she knows it. The email was also strangely signed because there are ink dots around the signature that usually arise from a stamp. It was supposedly signed by someone fro...