JWI - Just World Institute

01/03/2017

Hey everyone! We're hosting another event this Friday in the CMB. If you can make it, please come along! Details below.

“Should the university serve or stand above the market?”

Friday the 3rd of March, 1:00-2:30pm
Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building

For most of history universities have existed in relative autonomy from the societies in which they have been embedded. This was thought of as a condition of the entire project: scholars could only pursue knowledge outside of the imperatives of the economic and political spheres. Otherwise, the wrong objectives might prevail, and inquiry slowly degenerate. Recently, another view has taken hold, which looks upon the university as an archaic institution whose renewal can only be secured by its integration into the economy. In the UK, ongoing reforms are commercialising higher education: public teaching grants have largely been replaced by increased tuition fees, new providers have been introduced to simulate a competitive market, and university management has been corporatized.

What are universities for? Should these reforms be welcomed or resisted?

Speakers:

1. Dr. James Crowther, Senior Lecturer in Community Education
2. Patrick Garratt, Vice President for Academic Affairs
3. Dr. Richard Baxstrom, Reclaim the University
4. Dr. James MacAllister, Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education

There will be a brief presentation from each speaker, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

16/06/2016

[New Blog posts]

Our report from Arash Abizadeh's talk on 'Hobbes's Theory of the Good' is now available at: http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2016/06/15/arash-abizadeh-hobbess-theory-of-the-good-felicity-by-anticipatory-pleasure/

Other posts, including our reports from weekly political theory seminars in May, are also available at: http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/

Arash Abizadeh – Hobbes’s Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure Leave a reply Political Theory Research Group seminar series: 15 Jun 2016 I Ancient Greek ethicists assumed that human beings have a single overarching supreme good, which is eudaimonia, or ‘happiness’, and that this is…

14/06/2016

Tomorrow, Arash Abizadeh's talk on "Hobbes's Theory of the Good", from 4.45pm.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arash-abizadeh-hobbess-theory-of-the-good-tickets-25574203130

This is a read ahead workshop. The paper will be sent out a week ahead. If you have not received the paper, please contact Kieran Oberman at [email protected] There will be a dinner after the session. Please contact Kieran Oberman if you wish to go. Abstract: This text outlines Hobbes’s subst...