Very virtuous thoughts
- Aristotle - Aristotle
- Aristotle - Aristotle
The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy. First Edition
Philosophy. First Edition
The tone of your story "Staff see red over online policing" (May 18) was alarmist and misdirected, as it gave the impression that higher education managers, administrators, personnel and marketing...
On the one hand you report cases where academics have been dismissed for gross misconduct, having written personal complaints about their management on blogs or in circulated e-mails. On the other...
Letter to Michael Duff, Abdus Salam chair of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, copied to The Times Higher I am writing to let you know that I will not be coming to the Abdus Salam...
There are no "climate-change deniers", and I challenge Bob Ward (Opinion, May 4) to name one. The many scientists, so blackballed, who spent decades studying - not denying - climate changes, simply...
A certain defensiveness seems to characterise your correspondents' letters on the gender pay gap (Letters, May 18). I note that Nottingham and Newcastle universities (for which four of your...
Your overview on the status of film studies ("Good or bad taste - it's in the can", May 11) was interesting, yet it failed to cover some important aspects of the bigger picture. The current...
Your editorial's rush to judgment on top-up fees may be premature (Leader, May 18). As Zhou Enlai said of other events: "Too soon to tell." We do not yet have a reliable time series to test trends in...
It is rarely stated but widely known that bodies such as Unite Against Fascism and the Stop the War campaign are Socialist Workers Party front organisations. So it was refreshing that Robert Lockie (...
Public advice on nutrition must consider the role of families, says Peter Jackson. Right, researchers give a taster of their work on different facets of the interaction between home and health. The...
In researching the attitudes of 11 to 12-year-old rural children and their families, we have found that a potent symbol of domestic wellbeing remains "the proper dinner". Our data, drawn from ten...
Women's magazines have long been preoccupied with food - and have taken for granted that it is women who usually provide it. With human nutritionist Margo Barker, I have been examining the food...
Common consensus in academia and beyond is that it is mainly women who take responsibility for shopping, cooking and serving family meals. However, the research that supports this contention was...