Globally - seeking the ink of scholars

The Ink of the Scholars:
Reflections on Philosophy in Africa

Since the late 1980s, in trying to understand Hodges' model, especially its political dimensions beyond nurses as advocates, the mental health act, choice and self-determination. To be followed by consent, then informed consent, mental capacity, human rights, equality, protected characteristics, safeguarding, equity, social in-justice; I've then questioned my assumed neutrality of the model. 

Allied to this is the fact that Hodges' model is one of many models and frameworks, largely created in the developed world. What alternative viewpointsof nursing, care and philosophies are there? Do these challenge Hodges' model? Or, can Hodges' model also encompass them, in a complementary manner?

Serendipity, or ADHD, seems to follow me around. In addition determined to extract value from my purchase and reading of the weekend FT, I learned of potential key read:

Prempeh, C. THE AESTHETE. Koyo Kouoh, The curator of 2026 Venice Biennale talks whisky sours, working from bed and being the "high priestess of the okra church". HTSI, FTWeekend, 3 May 2025,pp.21-22.

'THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ IN THE PAST YEAR is a book on African philosophers, The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, one of our most brilliant thinkers. He challenges the idea that there isn't a philosophical framework to African societies. There are ideas around Africans being the great architects of hospitality and Diagne reflects on what the African approach to humanity is. What does it mean to be careful, mindful and caring? It's not just about welcoming people to your home or feeding them. Hospitality is carrying people, making people feel comfortable in your environment - it's intellectual and emotional. Everyone should read Diagne, full stop.' p.21. 

 

Shocked: I have just read of Koyo Kouoh's passing - RIP. 

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, & Jonathan Adjemian. (2016, May 23). The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa. CODESRIA Books Publication System. CODESRIA
https://publication.codesria.org/index.php/pub/catalog/book/40

See also: 'hospitality'

Critique Issue 6: The Wartime Quartet Special Issue, 2019

(Elizabeth Anscombe Iris Murdoch Mary Midgley Philippa Foot)

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Elizabeth Anscombe Iris Murdoch Mary Midgley Philippa Foot	Time
Voices -	Wartime

In June 2019, Durham University Philosophy Society’s journal, Critique, will publish a special edition on the Wartime Quartet – Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot – all of whom were peers and friends at Oxford during the Second World War, going on to become extraordinary philosophers in their own right. Midgley records in her memoir that when the men left for the war, the Quartet were free from the conventions of traditionally male-dominated philosophy. She attributed the Quartet members’ later success to this sudden amplification of their voices.

The members of the Quartet continued to associate, work, and live together long after their undergraduate years. In the thanks, dedications and references of each member’s work you are certain to find the other members too!

2019 will mark the centenary of the group and sees a series of lectures on the Quartet delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy – these can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQRhXQwUe-1ZKIJmnBvHsw

In consideration of this, the theme for this edition of Critique is the Wartime Quartet. [Up to 26th of May 2019] submissions were sought based on a range of topics on the Quartet, including, but not limited to:

• The work of individual members of the Quartet (e.g. the relevance of Anscombe’s critiques of ‘modern moral philosophy’). 
• The relations between the Quartet’s work (e.g. their shared rejections of the separation between fact and value). 
• The ways in which the Quartet’s work manifests in contemporary moral philosophy, and lasting effects that the Quartet’s scholarship had on the discipline.

This edition of Critique is particularly poignant due to the recent passing of Mary Midgley and will be dedicated in her memory.

Durham is one of the institutional homes of the In Parenthesis project which has a vibrant community of student researchers and interns. For more information see www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk

If you have any questions about the submission process, please feel to get in touch by emailing us at du.critique AT gmail.com or its editor, Sebastián Sánchez-Schilling, at sebastian.a.sanchez-schilling AT durham.ac.uk

n.b. With some editing as submission closed. PJ

My source:
Philos-L "The Liverpool List"
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l
https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL
@PhilosL
@LiverpoolPhilos

PayWALL

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'Who' profits?	The Sciences Qualitative - RESEARCH - Quantitative
The Public [Locus of the 'public purse']

My source:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2181744-paywall-the-business-of-scholarship-review-analysis-of-a-scandal/

Applications open: RCPsych Parliamentary Scholar Programme

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	Via twitter: Are you a trainee with an interest in politics? Would you like to experience working in Parliament? If so out Parliamentary Scholar scheme may be for you https://t.co/hST3DDU6bu Applicants now open until the middle of July — RC of Psychiatrists (@rcpsych) June 4, 2018

Slide presentation P.F. Anderson - 'Online Visualization and Organization Tools'

Through twitter I learned of Patricia F. Anderson's interest and teaching in health informatics which includes dental informatics and visualization with reference to an engaging and informative presentation:

Now see ...

https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/online-visualization-and-organization-tools/

This is a great (e)-reference source. There are many other related slide presentations too. Thanks Patricia, wish I could listen in!