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Understanding the World: Religious and Secular Perspectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Saturday 1 March 2014, 11am-12.30pm
\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n

Arthur Bradley<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in Comparative Literature, Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University<\/p>\n

Kenan Malik<\/strong><\/a>, writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, University of Surrey<\/p>\n

Chair:\u00a0Danielle Sands<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, QMUL and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n

Sensationalist accounts of the relationship between religion and secularism tend to depict the two as locked in combat, profoundly incompatible in their worldviews. By addressing the concept of \u2018Christian Europe\u2019, this discussion explored the connections between the Christian legacy and the Enlightenment values which underpin secularism. In so doing, it\u00a0aimed to provide both a more nuanced account of the relationship between religion and secularism, and a clearer sense of how religious and secular approaches inflect our experience and understanding of the world.<\/p>\n

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Understanding the Self<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Friday 28 February 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm
\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n

Mary Midgley<\/strong><\/a>, philosopher and writer. She is the author of\u00a0Are you an illusion?<\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan R\u00e9e<\/strong><\/a>, philosopher, writer, and historian. He is a regular contributor to the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em>, the\u00a0Times Literary Supplement<\/em>,\u00a0Prospect<\/em>,\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

Raymond Tallis<\/strong><\/a>, writer, philosopher, and former physician and scientist. He is the author of\u00a0Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur and Other Essays<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Chair:\u00a0Danielle Sands<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, QMUL and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n

What is the self? Should we turn to philosophy, psychology, or science in order to better understand it? Does the self even exist? In this panel, three thinkers responded to scientific claims that the self is an illusion, exposing the philosophical problems which such claims conceal. Returning us instead to the experience of selfhood, the speakers\u00a0discussed alternatives both to reductive scientific accounts and to traditional philosophical concepts of the self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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