Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 2
I agree with a great deal of what Simon Blackburn has written in his sensible and entertaining "top ten modern myths" - especially regarding the myth of meaning and the myth of management.But I...
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Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 3
In support of his contention that there is no such thing as religious belief, Simon Blackburn quotes David Hume who, according to him, "was usually right about such things". The following quotation...
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Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 4
Television viewers will owe a debt of gratitude to Simon Blackburn if BBC Two is inspired to produce a series of Grumpy Old Academics.Steve Fuller, Professor of sociology, University of Warwick.
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Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 2
In his amusing article, Simon Blackburn says that "nostalgia for the days before some change or other is usually fake and always embarrassing, like folk dancing or trying to preserve the Irish...
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Publishing isn't doomed 1
Once again, I read with wry amusement a number of academics telling academic publishing houses how best to do their job ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April).When I worked as a commissioning editor...
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Clocking on
Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story? Hannah Fearn investigates
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We've lost those magic moments
The emphasis on learning outcomes and benchmarks in the context of English literature is little more than a straitjacket that stifles the originality and creativity of both author and student critic...
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'Never means never'
Torture cannot be justified, says Philippe Sands, an academic and barrister who has traced how the US came to sanction the practice after 9/11. It doesn't work and it costs us dearly, he tells...
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Selling points
Corporate speak is key to applying for promotion, says Gloria Monday
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Book of the week: Physics of the Impossible
Joseph Silk on our chance to boldly go
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The week in books
Isabella De' Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess by Caroline P. Murphy, associate professor of Renaissance art, University of California, Riverside. Faber and Faber, £...
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The quest for a new New Deal
Howard Davies appraises the sound economic and political sense behind Paul Krugman's latest work
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Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds
It's a decent bet that right now there are more guilty "robots" roaming the internet on the lookout for your unguarded e-mail address than there will ever be real robot canines patrolling our homes...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
Blubberland is Elizabeth Farrelly's name for the state of mind induced by the excesses of the consumer society. It is also a place, usually sprawling outside cities, of shopping malls, gated...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Southampton
1. Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract by Andrew BurrowsOxford University Press, £39.95. ISBN 97804069772672. Law Express: Contract Law by Emily Finch and Stefan FafinskiPearson Education, £9....