Mark Rowlands's Blog, page 2

Nothing to do With Me

How odd! It has just been brought to my attention that someone has apparently bought my old website address, and is using it to advertise weight loss products. Obviously, this has nothing to do with me. 

Nothing to do with Me

How odd! It has just been brought to my attention that someone has apparently bought my old website address, and is using it to advertise slimming products. Obviously, this has nothing to do with me. 

Bristol Festival of Ideas

Here - talking about Running with the Pack with Julian Baggini at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, May 12th 2013.

The Right to Believe

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-vie...

Recently published in Aeon Magazine

Hay Festival (From The Daily Telegraph)

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13.58Online Culture Editor Martin Chilton has been speaking to philosopher Mark Rowland, who has food for thought, and taken this lovely snap of Rowland and his son Brenin.

 Mark Rowland, the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami and author of the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf, said: "Memory is very inconvenient, forcing itself on you. And memory is horrendously unreliable, even with events that happened relatively recenty." He quoted Friedrich Nietzsche, who said: "Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

How The Light Gets In

Me talking and Hugo chillaxing at our Can Animals Be Moral? gig - at How The Lights Gets In, the festival of philosophy and music, Hay-on-Wye, May 26th.

Now on Twitter

The Rubicon has been crossed. I'm now on Twitter - @mnjrowlands

One might think that the beginning of a four month European 'Tour' would have been a better time to cross this particular Rubicon rather than 2-and-a-half months in - but there you go.

UK Tour, Part Deux

Better late than never, I suppose ...

Saturday 11th May, Philosophy on the Run, Wimbledon Common/Richmond Park, London – 10.00-17.00. 

http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/pe-philosophyontherunwithmarkrowlands/

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Sunday 12th May, ‘Running with the Pack’ (in conversation with Julian Baggini), Bristol Festival of Ideas, Bristol, 14.30

http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/mark-rowlands/

Sunday 12th May, ‘Animals and Humans’, panel session with Miriam Darlington and Caspar Henderson, 17.30

http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/e...

Saturday 25th May, ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’, panel session with Hannah Dawson and Simon Saunders, How the Light Gets In, Hay-on-Wye, 12.00 p.m.

http://howthelightgetsin.org/2013-programme/event-tickets/debates-and-talks/#product-id-127

Sunday 26th May, ‘Catching Sight of Ourselves’, panel session with Peter Hacker and Colin Blakemore, How The Lights Gets In, Hay-on-Wye, 13.15

http://howthelightgetsin.org/2013-programme/event-tickets/debates-and-talks/#product-id-170

Sunday 26th May, ‘Can Animal Be Moral? How The Lights Gets In, Hay-on-Wye, 18.00

http://howthelightgetsin.org/2013-programme/event-tickets/debates-and-talks/#product-id-182

Wednesday 29th May, ‘Running with the Pack’, Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Hay-on-Wye, 11.30

http://www.hayfestival.com/p-6131-mark-rowlands.aspx

How The Light Gets In

I'll be involved several events at the How The Light Gets In Festival in Hay-on-Wye next month. I'll be talking about my recent book, Can Animals Be Moral? And I'll also be participating in two panel sessions, one on the nature of the self, and the other on what happens when we run up against the limits of thought. Details can be found here and here and here. 

Full details of (the second half of) the UK Running with the Pack festivities to follow shortly.

Review of Running with the Pack

Here is Miranda Sawyer's review of Running with the Pack (and also of Alexandra Heminsley's Running Like a Girl - which sounds great) which came out in The Observer last month.