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Loneliness and Self-isolating - how to combat it

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:39:06 GMT

1.5 million people in the UK will receive letters from the Government asking them to self-isolate for 12 weeks in the coming days to reduce the risk of contracting Covid-19. For those self isolating already, loneliness may be a feeling that starts in the coming days or weeks.

Professor Kimberley Brownlee, from the University of Warwick's Department of Philosophy comments on loneliness in the UK, and how to combat it at a time when we all need it.

The Double Slap in Cuts to Social Care: expert comments on new Human Rights Watch report

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:46:30 GMT

Following a new Human Rights Watch report on older people’s social care needs, Professor Kimberley Brownlee from the Department of Philosophy has argued that current social care service provision is a slap to both service users and support workers.

The Ethics of Social Prescriptions - comment on the Loneliness Strategy

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:25:32 GMT

The Government has announced a new national strategy to combat loneliness. Professor Kimberley Brownlee, Philosophy, comments on the recommendation that GPs should be able to 'prescribe' social activities.

Fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality published, posthumously - expert comment from Prof Stuart Elden

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:00:23 GMT

"The issues he was concerned with – madness and mental illness, medicine and health, punishment, sexuality – remain pressing issues today and Foucault’s investigation of these issues, and perhaps especially the questions he asked about them, mean he continues to be a regular reference. With the publication of this book, we are continually finding new work to explore and think with him.” Professor Stuart Elden comments on today's publication.

Professor Quassim Cassam writes, does dogmatism affect our efficacy as freethinkers?

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:14:37 GMT

"In 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon. The collapse of the two World Trade Center Towers on 9/11 was caused by aircraft impacts and the resulting fires. During the Second World War, the Nazis systematically murdered millions of Jews with the aim of exterminating the Jewish population of Europe. These are all things I know. But I also know that each of these claims has been questioned by conspiracy theorists and others. There are people who seriously believe that the moon landing was faked, that the twin towers were brought down by a controlled demolition and that the Holocaust is a myth. There are people who not only believe these things but present what they regard as evidence in support of them. How should I respond to this evidence? What should my attitude be?"

Prof Keith Ansell-Pearson to discuss the moral philosophy of our time on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time'

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:45:55 GMT

Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson of the University of Warwick Philosophy department will be on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' discussing Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) on 12 January at 9:00am and 21:30.

Elderly people can do just as much for society as society can do for them - Kimberley Brownlee

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:22:31 GMT

Jeremy Hunt has his attention on the right issue – the chronic acute loneliness of many elderly people – but he misidentifies who benefits when they are invited to live with other people - writes Kimberley Brownlee from Warwick Law School.

New porn legislation is unclear and unwarranted – Dr Helen McCabe

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:00:16 GMT

Dr Helen McCabe is from the Department of Politics and International Studies at The University of Warwick. On the day hundreds of people are due to protest about new porn legislation outside Parliament, she said: “One of the most worrying things about the recent Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 is the extent to which it involves the government ruling on what consenting adults may do with each other, in private.

Why Assange should allow his extradition to Sweden – Dr Kimberley Brownlee

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:14:00 GMT

Dr Kimberley Brownlee, an Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy at the University of Warwick, argues that Julian Assange should allow himself to be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations. She claims he can strengthen his cause by allowing the criminal justice process to proceed.

Definitions, Uses and Varieties of

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:23:54 GMT

An article by Department of Philosophy Associate Professor Guy Longworth: 'Definition' is the activity of explaining to an audience the meaning of an expression. A 'definition' is a product of that activity: a sentence the understanding of parts of which (the 'definiens') can underwrite an audience's understanding of the rest (the 'definiendum')...