- Description
- Professor Hanna Pickard is a guest on the 'In Sickness and In Health' podcast, talking about whether we hold people responsible without blame and shame in questions of addiction.
- Date:
- 18/07/2018
- Description
- Heather Widdows is interview by the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England for its Appearance Matters podcast. Heather talks about how beauty has become a moral and ethical issue, and how women (and increasingly men) feel the pressure to conform to the beauty ideal.
- Date:
- 16/07/2018
- Description
- Professor Hanna Pickard writes for the Howard League for Penal Reform's research bulletin about responsibility in matters of criminal justice. Hanna talks about her research and the 'Responsibility without Blame' project.
- Date:
- 12/07/2018
- Description
- Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Lecturer in Philosophy writes this recent blog post on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases.
- Date:
- 09/07/2018
- Description
- Nikk Effingham writes for The Conversation about a recent Twitter debate between Piers Morgan and Brian Cox about the existence of God.
- Date:
- 05/07/2018
- Description
- Report from the Professor Heather Widdows' talk at the Hay Festival, on whether we feel a duty to be beautiful.
- Date:
- 29/06/2018
- Description
- Professor Heather Widdows joins the discussion on BBC Radio 3's 'Free Thinking' about bodies in the past and in the present. Skip to 33.35 to hear Heather, though the whole programme is well worth listening to.
- Date:
- 28/06/2018
- Description
- Report from the book launch of Professor Widdows' latest book on the beauty ideal.
- Date:
- 28/06/2018
- Description
- Lisa Bortolotti writes for aeon.
- Date:
- 26/06/2018
- Description
- Researchers from Project PERFECT will be giving a series of talks from May to September 2018.
- Date:
- 18/06/2018
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