Laura Counsell

The Annual Language Lecture 2019: Sound and the Veda

Warwick Jessup will explore sound and the Veda as a way to discover deeper levels of reality. Filmed 05 June 2019.

Artificial Intelligence. Promise or Threat?

Chris Rees sets out the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and explains what AI is and how it works.

Submissions

Spring 2020 Budget Submission from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Land value Capture

This February 2020 submission was prepare by Dr Peter Bowman as Chairman of The Coalition for Economic Justice. The School is a Member of the CEJ, which provides the Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Land Value Capture. Peter was Head of the School’s Economics and Law Faculty.   1.

Lectures

Coffee Economics and Spirituality

A talk given by John De Val on 11 January 2020 (The views expressed in this talk are my own views, and do not necessarily represent the views of the School of Philosophy, Cambridge – John De Val) The title of this talk is Coffee Economics and Spirituality. Economics and Spirituality are normally con

The School

How I Met the School

Way back in 1959  I joined the School because of my wife; she bought me a ticket to an introductory public lecture by the Principal of the School. At that time I was a cartoonist and BBC TV Entertainment producer for Top of the Pops. None of us who joined the course at that time knew what to expect,

The School

A Brief History of the School

Leon MacLaren was born in 1910 in Glasgow.  His father, Andrew MacLaren, was MP for Burslem, and a great advocate of the teaching of the American Henry George and his land reform policies. In his youth Leon experienced the terrible poverty and social unrest arising from the great depression that fol

The School

Speaking of Shakespeare…

“Why Shakespeare?”   I was once asked to explain my passion for his words and universality. Ben Jonson, his fellow playwright back in 17th century  England, said it so well: “Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage…”   He declared on Shakespeare’s death in 1616…..  that “He w

Course

What is Calligraphy?

Is Calligraphy an Art? Is it a Hobby? Is it a Craft? Is it a form of Meditation? I cannot guarantee you will ever find an answer to these questions but if you come along to the Horizons calligraphy class you will begin something that can only reward your quest for your true self. To sit with a dozen

Course

Why Economics needs Justice

Conventional economics has come to regard itself as a positive science. It tells us that it does not deal in values so just aims just to describe how the economy is, rather than presenting a vision of how it should be. But economics is an ethical subject.  This is the view adopted by the course ‘Eco

Course

Economics and the Possibility of Civilisation

Horizons Course – Saturday Mornings At a dinner given in his honour in 1947, the great economist John Maynard Keynes proposed the toast “To economics and economists, as trustees of the possibility of civilisation”. Now economics may not be the stuff of which civilisation is made, but unless the econ

Reading and Understanding Plato

Once a week in SW London nine women meet to read Plato. None are academics or have a degree in ancient philosophy. Most of us met Plato for the first time when studying philosophy at the School of Economic Science. How we read We read aloud, pause to discuss and question, and the aim is not necessar

Wisdom Of Women

The Wisdom of Women

First in a series Having the privilege to study practical philosophy for just over 10 years now, has been a life-enhancing activity. It may sound clichéd but that does not mean it is not true! But. From the early years of study, the absence of women thinkers and philosopher voices was felt and this