The Jonathan McKeown-Green Memorial Page

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https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/relationships/family/is-it-ok-to-baptise-your-child-just-to-get-into-a-catholic-school

Is it ok to baptise your child just to get into a Catholic school? Two philosophy professors, including a former Catholic priest, weigh up the ethics of a convenient baptism for school application.

'Artificial Intelligence in School' addresses a growing and urgent educational challenge: equipping students and educators with the knowledge and critical tools needed to understand and navigate the complex world of Artificial Intelligence.

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We finally got around to sharing Jon's thesis online. Hopefully it may be useful to somebody.

(PDF) The Primacy of Public Language PDF | I defend the view, call it Communitarianism, that the only languages which need be posited by a scientific description and explanation of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Imran Aijaz has this great looking session next week. 🥰 "Looking forward to next week's 2026 conference of the Society for Philosophy of Religion. The conference includes a special panel on Islamic philosophy of religion, focused on discussing my book "Islam: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation" (Routledge, 2018). Looking forward to that and to meeting up with friends there!." https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DnpthwGqM/

SPR Home - 2026 Program The Society for Philosophy of Religion 2026 Annual Meeting March 26th—28, 2026 Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas Keynote Speaker: Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University Officers President—Joshua Horn (2022) Vice President—Ted Poston (2021) Treasurer—Ben McCraw (2022) Council Members Tim Lytle

A lovely post about Grant Tavinor from Hamish Rennie

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Sadly our beloved faculty colleague, philosopher Grant Tavinor passed away last week. Grant served for many years as chair of the University Human Ethics Committee. Planning alumni may recall him teaching the second year course "The Living City".
As many Lincoln University alumni are on linkedin and may well have missed the notice of his passing I am posting the following which was written by our Interim Dean Emma Stewart here:

"It has been a terribly sad week for our Faculty. We have lost a treasured colleague, friend and scholar. During his 22 years of service, Grant Tavinor made an indelible mark on the Faculty, and beyond. Not long after the news broke, I had a lovely visit from a former student who revealed that Grant had expanded the way she sees the world, and that he was fantastic at explaining big philosophical concepts. She always looked forward to the next class. As a teacher, I don’t think it gets much better than that.

As other tributes flow in we also realise how modest Grant was. Clearly, he was a founding scholar in his discipline. His former PhD supervisor, Emeritus Professor Stephen Davies, noted Grant’s first book “The Art of Videogames” (2009) is “particularly noteworthy for being the first philosophically sophisticated, book-length treatment of its subject. Its importance is apparent from the explosion in the philosophical literature of books and articles on various aspects of videogames that followed its appearance. Most of the philosophers who work in this sub-area are members of the American Society for Aesthetics or the British Society of Aesthetics and I know Grant was widely respected and admired in these international, professional groups. But more than that, the accessible style and clarity of The Art of Videogames facilitated engagement with many non-philosophers in the vast gaming community, so Grant’s influence reached far beyond the academy”. Given these comments, I thought it would be appropriate to share a small selection of Grant’s work:

Tavinor, G. (2009). The Art of Video Games. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. https://lnkd.in/gMsvSMTe
Tavinor, G. (2010). Videogames and aesthetics. Philosophy Compass, 5(8), 624-634. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00317.x
Tavinor, G. A. (2017). What's my motivation? Video games and interpretative performance. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 75(1, Winter 2017), 23-33. doi:10.1111/jaac.12334
Tavinor, G. (2019). On virtual transparency. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 77(2), 145-156. doi:10.1111/jaac.12626
Tavinor, G. (2022). The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality. USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://lnkd.in/g_kWau28
Tavinor, G. (2023). Against Metaphysical Interpretations of VR. In Exploring Extended Realities Metaphysical Psychological and Ethical Challenges (pp. 40-56). doi:10.4324/9781003359494-5

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"Sam went to university in 2005 to study philosophy, logic and computation.
“I strongly endorse studying analytical philosophy. It teaches something desperately missing in today’s world: how to approach the overabundance of information with a sceptical lens.”"

Sam Blackman – University of Auckland To hear Sam Blackman talk about his influences, education and career is to realise his latest preoccupations are the distillation of everything that’s come before.

A Logician’s Code of Conduct The logic we rely on every day to help us communicate and make decisions can also reinforce injustice. Logic is often treated as a neutral arena for reasoning, but that supposed neutrality can fail to ...