https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/ Radio 3 Free Thinking en Copyright 2007 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:47:00 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The 2006 Free Thinking bloggers have all posted their last weblog. Thank you to everyone who contributed to these blogs and made them a place of lively debate. If you'd like to continue to explore ideas important to how humanity... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:47:00 +0000 The Freethinking Festival is over, for this year at least. It wrapped up with a big bash in Liverpool last weekend, featuring dozens of public talks, debates and discussions, most of them recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/11/last_post.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/11/last_post.shtml What is freethinking? Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:04:50 +0000 Very intertesting points about good news / bad news. I would like to give the question another spin though, especially as my next post to this blog is going to be my last. (As you probably know, all the Freethinking... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/11/why_bad_news_pleases.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/11/why_bad_news_pleases.shtml Prejudice Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:01:12 +0000 What I said about people who are more receptive to bad news than good was far too simple, as several of you have pointed out. And the suggestion that people who think of themselves as progressive in their politics are... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/good_news_bad_news.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/good_news_bad_news.shtml Optimism and Pessimism Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:58:36 +0000 Many thanks for some very pertinent comments about my last post. You're right: I was indeed overlooking the fact that optimism and pessimism involve our practical involvement with the world as well as our theoretical appraisal of it. (From the... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/no_news_is_good_news_1.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/no_news_is_good_news_1.shtml Prejudice Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:18:26 +0000 Do we have a prejudice against good news? Or at least an inclination to put more trust in pessimism than in optimism? I suspect we do, and will come back to the point in a later post. But here’s a... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/trust_me_im_a_pessimist.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/trust_me_im_a_pessimist.shtml Prejudice Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:40:55 +0000 The prejudices of self-display, as you may remember from my last post, can be defined as the kinds of hasty judgements that we are led to not by base self-interest but by a desire to look or sound good. (I... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/the_prejudices_of_selfdisplay.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/10/the_prejudices_of_selfdisplay.shtml Prejudice Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:18:51 +0000 What is freethinking? It's not so easy to say. But perhaps it's easier to ask the question the other way round: what is the opposite of freethiinking? The most plausible answer, I think, is prejudice. which is why there has... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/prejudice_selfinterest_and_sel.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/prejudice_selfinterest_and_sel.shtml Prejudice Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:06:16 +0000 Yes indeed: the ideal of freeing ourselves from prejudice is fraught with problems. (Many thanks, Nadim, for a superb little dialogue about this.) We can never be sure whether we are making progress with it. But that does not mean... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/a_short_history_of_freethinkin.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/a_short_history_of_freethinkin.shtml What is freethinking? Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:50:59 +0000 My BBC controllers want me to put myself about a bit more. They would like me to spend more time cruising the blogosphere trying to pick up new partners. But I’m afraid I’m not ready for that, and I’m not... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/logic_or_how_to_think.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/logic_or_how_to_think.shtml What is freethinking? Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:57:24 +0000 My minders at the BBC would like me to make my posts a bit snappier and whackier – a bit more bloglike in short. I shall do my best, but I'm afraid I may not succeed. After all they have... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/the_curious_history_of_freethi_1.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/the_curious_history_of_freethi_1.shtml What is freethinking? Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:43:18 +0000 In my last post I said that there is more to freedom than getting what you want. Of course the word ‘freedom’ is only a word, and if you like you can stretch it to cover people who are simply... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/humble_opinions.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/humble_opinions.shtml What is freethinking? Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:17:54 +0000 The only thing that’s indisputable about the idea of freedom is that it’s always in dispute. And the same applies to freethinking too. It’s a word with a lot of history: in the eighteenth century, certain dissident protestants liked to... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/freedom_truth_and_thinking.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/freedom_truth_and_thinking.shtml Democracy Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:43:51 +0000 Lots of people seem to like my idea of a democracy of mutual respect, but they’re not sure that such a thing can ever exist. On the internet perhaps, or specifically here in blogland? But first we need to agree... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/true_respect.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/09/true_respect.shtml Democracy Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:55:23 +0000 ‘What is democracy?’ says jesting Esther – and I think I may have an answer. In any case it’s nice to do a cyber-handshake with my fellow freethinker, and I hope I can cheer her up a bit, while leaving... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/08/one_cheer_for_democracy_1.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkinguk/2006/08/one_cheer_for_democracy_1.shtml Democracy Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:02:35 +0000