The Occult (Forum for Philosophy)

Join us as we delve into the mystic just in time for Halloween. Philosophy often presents itself as founded on logic and rationality, but even the most rigorous of us must concede that the world can be a strange place. So how does philosophy contend with the mysterious and the inexplicable? Can it really be logic all the way down, or might rationality stand on something a little spookier?

Speakers
Lauren Kassell
Professor of History of Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge

Richard Pettigrew
Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol

Nisha Ramayya
Lecturer in Creative Writing, QMUL

Chair
Shahidha Bari
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy
Professor of Fashion Cultures, UAL