Some thoughts about workplace abuse and exploitation in kids TV, professional wrestling, and for all of us under capitalism...

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/182-much-too-quiet-on-set-stepping-on-eggshells-as-we-all-work-under-capitalism

#QuietOnSet #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #Work #Capitalism #Exploitation #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

England has a drinking problem. Could it be the cause of its political problems too? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/177-reaching-rock-bottom-why-england-needs-to-sober-up

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Straightedge #drinking #alcohol #austerity #UK #politics

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the need for us teachers to look in the mirror sometimes (often!) https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/168-its-not-just-the-kids-its-us-why-its-important-for-teachers-to-look-in-the-mirror #teachers #education #tech #schools #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

I got asked if I was serious about my opposition to police and prisons by an incredulous student last week while giving a talk and Q&A about anarchism. This week’s Philosophy Unleashed covers my response: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/165-justice-for-victims-why-i-wouldnt-want-my-killer-jailed #abolition #Philosophy #ethics #prisons #justice #anarchism #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is my lecture on Epistemic Inequality I gave to students last week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/160-epistemic-inequality-why-should-we-care-about-inequalities-in-knowledge

#Philosophy #EpistemicInequality #Epistemology #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers the decision of a London school to stop the “cultural misogyny” of calling teachers “sir” or “miss”…

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Gender #Teaching #HarrisWestminster #Schools #Sir #Miss #Identity #Work #Misogyny #Names

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/157-i-wont-miss-sir-on-naming-our-teachersh

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy

Back with a new Philosophy Unleashed after a long spring break: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/152-inspired-philosophy-where-do-ideas-come-from This week I’m looking at what inspiration is, and why it is. Check it out and enjoy!

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Inspiration #Improv #Writing #Deadlines #Florida #Perception #Teaching #School #ALevel #Exams

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Boiler #Trust #Hume #Descartes #Writing #Induction

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books

#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning

I unexpectedly wrote something defending changing the words of Roald Dahl for this week’s Philosophy Unleashed. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/147-not-all-gobstoppers-are-everlasting-why-im-ok-with-changing-the-words-of-roald-dahl

I’ve always been anti-change and anti-censorship as a first instinct, but the more I thought about commercial writing the more I started to question the commitment to the idea of “Dahl’s” words…

#RoaldDahl #philosophy #writing #language #PhilosophyUnleashed

Happy Henry Rollins Day everyone!

Rollins has always been a huge influence on my attitude to writing. Speaking of my writing, this week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the gender-fluidity of God. I don’t believe in God, but if there was a God they would be they/them, he, she and everything in between: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/146-theythem-why-we-need-to-be-gender-neutral-about-god

#God #Gender #NonBinary #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Anglicanism #Christianity #Trinity #Inclusivity #Transcendence #HenryRollins #HenryRollinsDay #21361 #Writing

Is it always nice to have options? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed tackles existentialism, UCAS, choosing a university, and choices in general about an unknown future. Read it here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/145-its-nice-to-have-options-existentialism-and-ucas

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Existentialism #UCAS #University #Oxbridge #Oxford #Cambridge #Choices #Sartre #FarbodAkhlaghi

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is looking at the Women’s Super League and how women’s football is being let down by the unequal perceptions created by clubs unwilling to give their women’s team the same home ground as the men. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/144-challenging-perceptions-why-top-tier-football-clubs-continue-to-do-womens-football-a-disservice

#PhilosophyUnleashed #Philosophy #WSL #football #WomensSuperLeague #WomensFootball #soccer #WomensSoccer #AstonVilla #AVFC #AVWFC #Walsall #Brighton #Crawley #Clubs #Blog

This week at Philosophy Unleashed, I used ChatGPT to write an article about whether or not using ChatGPT to do schoolwork is cheating, and something teachers should worry about. Or at least I tried to! The article the AI wrote is there, as is a reflection on the process it took to get it there. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/143-artificially-produced-is-using-chatgpt-to-do-your-work-cheating

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #ChatGPT #AI #Ethics #Cheating #Teaching #Education

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes the form of a poem I wrote about the importance of fantasy and the perils of truth: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/142-the-inevitability-of-fantasy-leaning-into-storytelling-in-lieu-of-truth #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Poem #Poetry #Fiction #Fantasy #Truth #Epistemology

Philosophy Unleashed returned this week with a piece on the Value of Social Media. I ask: does it have any? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/141-the-value-of-social-media-does-it-have-any

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #SocialMedia #Ethics #MentalHealth #Communication #Technology