In the next half hour or so, Sue and I will be attempting the impossible – to do some sort of justice to the extraordinary achievements and value of this organisation, which held its first public meeting at the Assembly Rooms on the 14th June 2019 The inaugural public meeting – five y...
This new wave of misfit research has been made possible by scholars solving many of the challenges that had presented obstacles for this type of work such as the unpredictable, unconnected, scattered, and fleeting nature of its occurrence and the tendency for misfits to mask their misfit while t...
Many of these age-old deliberations on what makes people happy are ahistorical and asociological in the sense that they examine the motivations of individuals as if it matters not whether they lived in ancient Greece or live in contemporary Rome—or, for that matter, in today’s New York Ci...
as I will argue, potentially too culture-bound approach to ethics, a potential all too fatally realised by at least some neo-Aristotelians, including Scruton and Malón. Aristotle’s willingness to privilege “credible opinions” (endoxa), i.e. the conventional wisdom of his day, is a recipe...
The multi-authoredSexual Development in Childhood, a prestigious (one would have thought) volume edited by a senior figure in sexology and weighing in at over 500 pages, should have been a massive contribution to the field when it was published in 2003. Instead, it was largely an exercise in...