The Global Circle

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Theme: The Global Circle, Type: Email Discussion Group, Maintainer: Nicholas Maxwell, URL: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/globalcircle


This is to let you know about a new group of philosophers who are sympathetic to the idea that philosophy should tackle global problems – global intellectually, and global in the sense of concerning the planet and the future of humanity. We call ourselves "The Global Circle" (a sort of joke), and our aim is to encourage and promote philosophy as the imaginative and critical – i.e. rational – tackling of global problems. We would like to encourage universities everywhere to keep alive sustained thinking about global problems by means of Seminars, Symposia, undergraduate and graduate Courses, and public Lectures. The hope would be that such thinking about global problems would interact, in both directions, with more specialized academic research, and with the social world beyond the university – the public, politicians, the media, bankers, industrialists, and so on. 

So far we are an emailing group. If you would like to join, go to www.jiscmail.ac.uk/globalcircle, click on "Subscribe or Unsubscribe" under "Options" near the top left hand corner, and follow instructions. Or email me, Nicholas Maxwell, at GLOBALCIRCLE-request(at)jiscmail.ac.uk, and ask to join. 

The Global Circle was sparked off by "What Philosophy Ought to Be", available online here:
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/view/people/ANMAX22.date.html

A look at that article might assist you in deciding whether The Global Circle is the sort of Group you would like to join.


Contact:    

Nicholas Maxwell, Emeritus Reader
Science and Technology Studies
University College London
Email: GLOBALCIRCLE-request(at)jiscmail.ac.uk
Website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/globalcircle