Category Archives: philosophy

Honneth in London Redux

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Rob Farrow

This is a re-post from my neglected first blog, where I tried to get my head around blogging and how it might be used to help me to focus my research.  I posted a lot of different stuff, learning how … Continue reading →

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In The Game

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Here are the slides from the presentation I gave at the annual Philosophy of Computer Games conference earlier this week (paper co-written with Jo Iacovides). View more presentations from Robert Farrow.

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From Philosophy to Blogging

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Rob Farrow

An interesting conversation between David Roberts (Grist), Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Beast), and Matthew Yglesias (Slate).  Organized and chaired by Andrew Light (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy)

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Three interesting Calls for Papers

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Good calls for papers are kind of like buses:  they tend to show up in groups.  Three caught my eye this week… here’s hoping that I can find the time to get around to all of them! 1. Critique, Democracy, … Continue reading →

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OER as Educational Philosophy

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Here are the slides from my presentation to the Computers and Learning Research Group.  My basic argument can be summarised as follows Discourse about Open Educational Resources (OERs) has reached a point of maturity and needs to be (at least) … Continue reading →

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Deconstruction: An Intro

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Here’s an introductory lecture on deconstruction from Yale University Courses, helpfully released as part of an open course.  Part two is available here.

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Can Technology ‘Democratize’ Academia?

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Rob Farrow

(This is a brief write-up of a presentation I gave at the Digital Humanities Colloquium a couple of months ago.) It is beyond doubt that new technologies are radically transforming the practices associated with studying and teaching the humanities.  The … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Pedagogy: Wittgenstein

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Philosophical pedagogy is unusual in that the learner is being encouraged by the teacher to think for themselves and develop critical skills rather than absorb a certain concept or datum.  Here’s a report on Wittgenstein’s teaching style that I read … Continue reading →

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‪QualiaSoup

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rob Farrow

‪ via Morality 1: Good without gods‬‏ – YouTube. I think that QualiaSoup does a really good job of using multimedia to illustrate or explain philosophical ideas or principles that lots of students struggle to understand from reading texts.

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Dreyfus on Embodiment and AI

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Rob Farrow
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