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Playing with Prognostications

This paper was written for the 2022 Yijing World Summit Forum. It’s about play and divination, and it won the 2022 first prize for essays on the Yijing (优秀易经论文一等奖).

This is a draft of the paper that I gave remotely at the 2022 Yijing World …

Bootleg Copies of my Book are Available in Iran, and I’m Okay With That

For all the divisiveness of global politics, books have the power to connect

Divination and love in the Symposium

Divination has as much to do with love as knowledge

At the Edinburgh Book Festival

Come and say hello at the Edinburgh Internaional Book Festival.

The Swoop and Surge of Life: Lucretius on Ethics in Motion

Ethics, power and a life in motion.

7 Ways of Reading Philosophy #5: Reading While Drunk

Is drunkenness the enemy of philosophical sobriety? Or are there circumstances where drunkenness can make our philosophical insight more acute?

At the Dandelion Festival

A project at the Dandelion Festival in Glasgow

Philosophy, History, Culture and Identity in Chin State

I've been working on a new syllabus for the Chinbridge Institute in Chin State

Lucretius on Chance, Necessity and Free Will

Lucretius, the Roman poet and philosopher, on free will, creativity and the mysterious swerve of an atom.

Awakening Between the Lines Exhibition

An exhibition of artwork from women survivors with commissioned artwork from some of Bulgaria's most talented illustrators.

Hello, Stranger: Coming Soon in German

My book, Hello, Stranger, is coming out in German!

Freedom to Write Retreat

This June, I'm guest tutoring with at the Freedom to Write retreat in Wales