{"id":14395,"date":"2021-07-21T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:18:14","slug":"staff-recommendations-for-new-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2021\/07\/21\/staff-recommendations-for-new-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff recommendations for new students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our programmes in the Department of Philosophy cover core areas such as metaphysics, logic, epistemology and ethics, as well as the philosophy of science, medicine, and political philosophy. To give you a head start, we\u2019ve put together some recommendations from our academic staff to get you inspired!<\/p>\n<p><strong>YouTube crash course in Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&#038;hl=en_US' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/A-Short-History-of-Ethics-A-History-of-Moral-Philosophy-from-the-Homeric\/MacIntyre\/p\/book\/9780415287494\"><em>A Short History of Ethics<\/em><\/a> by Alasdair MacIntyre<br \/>\nMacIntyre is one of the big thinkers when it comes to moral philosophy, and though some of his views have changed since writing this book, it nevertheless gives the reader a rich and very accessible introduction to the history of ethical thinking in the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Myths-We-Live-By\/Midgley\/p\/book\/9780415340779?gclid=CjwKCAjwi9-HBhACEiwAPzUhHNqfUprNN_1ZbQVS-2XQ4Qvg-FP0z41AbP92qjF0OYXaV7aPIAYrzxoCJWkQAvD_BwE\"><em>The Myths We Live By<\/em><\/a> by Mary Midgley<br \/>\nAn exciting look at how lots of ideas we rely on push us into big philosophical disputes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691173320\/not-for-profit\"><em>Not for Profit : Why Democracy Needs the Humanities<\/em><\/a> by Martha Nussbaum<br \/>\nEver get the annoying questions \u201cWhy are you studying philosophy? What good is it?\u201d? Well, read Nussbaum\u2019s book for a powerful response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/ukhe\/product\/philosophical-method-a-very-short-introduction-9780198810001?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><em>Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction<\/em><\/a> by Timothy Williamson<br \/>\nIt is a fun and accessible introduction to how philosophy works and what it can achieve, complete with loads of examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/\"><em>The Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/introductions-to-philosophy-warburton\/\">interview with philosopher, Nigel Warburton<\/a>, including his recommendations for introductory readings in philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our programmes in the Department of Philosophy cover core areas such as metaphysics, logic, epistemology and ethics, as well as the philosophy of science, medicine, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2021\/07\/21\/staff-recommendations-for-new-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":13503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395\/revisions\/14399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}