Obituary: Walter Jackson Freeman III, 1927-2016

A statue of Socrates, slumped in his seat, illustrating that Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close.

Kingston axes philosophy centre in humanities department shutdown

Staff and students fight to save famed unit, transferred from Middlesex University in 2010

6 March

A piggy bank beneath a pile of books, symbolising open access costs

The REF OA book mandate will pile yet more financial pressure on HE

If the best books aren’t REFable, UK research will appear artificially weak, say Heather Widdows, Fiona Macpherson and Simon Kirchin

By Heather Widdows

28 June

We should lament the demise of philosophy departments

Rigorously and open-mindedly exploring ‘what if’ questions is more necessary than ever in a troubled world, say Brian Ball and Patrycja Kaszynska

By Brian Ball

21 June

We should not lament the demise of philosophy departments

It is surely not Gradgrindian to ask whether a subject can do without a corpus of factual knowledge and still expect students to study it, says Colin Swatridge

By Colin Swatridge

14 June

Walter Jackson Freeman III, 1927-2016

A neuroscientist and philosopher who offered many sharp insights into how our brains generate perceptions of the world has died

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