The Social Network Kathryn Koromilas New research adds a twist to the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate on how character and behavior are shaped. Harvard Medical School’s Nicholas Christakis says obesity may be influenced by your social network. Kathryn Koromilas reviews the research that suggests that maybe it’s not that “you are what you eat” but [...]

Palimpsest was launched at Gleebooks 17 April, 2010. Vrasidas Karalis and Ed Spence were there to speak about the book and Zoe Rodriguez was the charming MC for the night. The novel was born as a real book on 18 April by Australian Scholarly Publishing and is available for sale via their website or Gleebooks [...]

It is not that I ‘write what I know,’ but that I write what I need to know. It is not that I write what I have seen, but what I need to see. I write, not what I have learnt, but what I need to learn. I write, not what I have understood, but [...]

Signed contracts today for the publication of PALIMPSEST, a novel by Kathryn Koromilas.

As part of my postgrad studies in philosophy, I’m researching the topic of punishment. As part of this research I am inviting friends to take part in a philosophical survey, which I hope will help me better understand our basic intuitions about punishment. I would be grateful if you were able to complete the survey [...]

Next installment in my one to two month student blogging career is on technology and terminology. There are a two types of skills that we OU philosophy students need to master before we even begin doing any philosophy, and both have their own kind of logic.

Well, for a couple of months, I’m a student blogger at the Open University’s Platform, and I’ll be writing about whatever comes to mind as I begin my postgraduate degree in philosophy. Two posts so far: 1. Urgent: Education! When my OU ‘A850 Postgraduate module in philosophy’ course materials arrived at my door, I knew something important [...]

The first time I was a philosophy student was 21 years ago at the University of Sydney as part of an undergraduate degree in the arts. I was completely unprepared – intellectually – for what I would encounter back then and my chief motivation for choosing philosophy was linked to a story my high school English [...]

[Been studying a bit of philosophy, again, hence the topic…] Man is (not!) free, and (so, naturally) everywhere he is in chains. In the land of illusion we can be free. A really, really, really good way to upset someone is to tell them they have no free will, that they are not free, that [...]

I recently met someone from the country. This person had always lived in the country. Real country. Cows, vegetable gardens, tree chopping, no running water. We began talking about country life versus city life, as you do. He had not been in the city for more than a few days and already he missed the [...]