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Hazzah! An advocate! (In the UK, at least)

Thrilling news here, esp. following on the heals of that bullshit and insulting representation of our discipline in the NY Times. Warwick university in the UK has appointed Angela Hobbs a "senior fellow in the public understanding of philosophy.":

Philosophy and real life | Mark Vernon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Warwick University is about to announce the first academic with an explicit brief to engage a wide audience with philosophy. Dr Angela Hobbs will be made senior fellow in the public understanding of philosophy.

Brilliant. Now maybe people will be able to distinguish between reasoned arguments and bad novels.

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and here is a link to that announcement & a podcast with Angie

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Here is the announcement of Angie's appoimtment with a pic of her:
http://bit.ly/xUizE

...and here is a podcast with Angie on that announcement:
http://bit.ly/otV9G

Peter Dunn
Head of Communications
University of Warwick
p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk
Twitter: @PeterJDunn