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Can Animals Be Moral?
My latest book - Can Animals Be Moral? (Oxford University Press) - is apparently out and about. Here it is: And the blurb from the OUP website: Description From eye-witness accounts of elephants...
View ArticleThe Kindness of Beasts
Here is a link to an article of mine that came out today in Aeon Magazine - the new digital magazine of ideas and culture.
View ArticleNew World Record
Either Nikeplus, my ipod, or both were having technical problems a few days ago ... or, I broke Hicham El Gerrouj's world mile record. Now, I know some might regard with scepticism the idea that an...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Nikeplus
As the previous post makes evident, I'm unlikely to complain if Nikeplus throw the odd world record my way, comically implausible though it may be. However, I take a much dimmer view of any attempt to...
View ArticleInterview in Avant
Here is an interview with me in the Polish philosophical journal, Avant, which came out over the summer.
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God Exists- Fact!
Douglas Adams had the Babel Fish. It’s the Tardigrade that did it for me. Not knowing any better, you would almost certainly guess Doctor Who, sometime in the mid-seventies, probably the Jon Pertwee...
View ArticleInterview in 3 AM Magazine
Here is an interview that came out in 3 am Magazine earlier this year.
View ArticleLive Science
Here is an article in Live Science, talking about Can Animals be Moral? (I should add that I'm not a scientist, and I didn't argue that we have moral obligations to animals because they can act morally...
View ArticlePlaying, or the Embodied Apprehension of The Good
Here is a piece of mine that came out recently in Aeon Magazine.
View ArticleUK Tour
My tour of the UK - to go with the launch of Running with the Pack - begins early next month. Details to follow shortly ...
View ArticlePublication of Running with the Pack
Running with the Pack will be published on March 7th – with Granta, the publishers of The Philosopher and the Wolf. The launch coincided with a scheduled (and, needless to say, very well-earned)...
View ArticleMy Facebook Page
I don't have one. I know I really should, but I don't. Maybe one day soon I'll get round to it, but as of yet I haven't. So, I'm really grateful to some extraordinarily generous soul who - as was...
View ArticleInterview for Philosophy Bites
Here you will find me talking with Nigel Warburton for his well known podcast series, Philosophy Bites. The topic is running and philosophy, and we were talking during the Words by the Water literature...
View ArticleReview of Running with the Pack
Here is Miranda Sawyer's review of Running with the Pack (and also of Alexandra Heminsley's Running Like a Girl - which sounds great) which came out in The Observer last month.
View ArticleHow The Light Gets In
I'll be involved several events at the How The Light Gets In Festival in Hay-on-Wye next month. I'll be talking about my recent book, Can Animals Be Moral? And I'll also be participating in two panel...
View ArticleUK Tour, Part Deux
Better late than never, I suppose ... Saturday 11th May, Philosophy on the Run, Wimbledon Common/Richmond Park, London – 10.00-17.00....
View ArticleNow on Twitter
The Rubicon has been crossed. I'm now on Twitter - @mnjrowlands One might think that the beginning of a four month European 'Tour' would have been a better time to cross this particular Rubicon rather...
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How The Light Gets In
Me talking and Hugo chillaxing at our Can Animals Be Moral? gig - at How The Lights Gets In, the festival of philosophy and music, Hay-on-Wye, May 26th.
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Hay Festival (From The Daily Telegraph)
13.58Online Culture Editor Martin Chilton has been speaking to philosopher Mark Rowland, who has food for thought, and taken this lovely snap of Rowland and his son Brenin. Mark Rowland, the...
View ArticleBristol Festival of Ideas
Here - talking about Running with the Pack with Julian Baggini at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, May 12th 2013.
View ArticleNothing to do With Me
How odd! It has just been brought to my attention that someone has apparently bought my old website address, and is using it to advertise weight loss products. Obviously, this has nothing to do with me.
View ArticleThe Body Sphere
Here is an interview with Amanda Smith (recorded a while back when I was in London). It aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio show, The Body Sphere, on Sunday. Also interviewed is...
View ArticleAnimal Rights
Completely forgot. I've a new book out, in fact it's been out for the past six weeks or so. I lost track in all the recent traveling. Entitled, Animal Rights: All That Matters. It's part of Hodder's...
View ArticleCulture File
Here is a four part interview series I did for Lyric FM radio (Ireland) as part of their Culture File show. I'm talking about Running with the Pack and various sundry matters.
View ArticleCan Animals Be Moral at HTLGI
This is a video of an appearance I made at the How The Light Gets In Festival, in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, in May of this year. I was talking about my book, Can Animals be Moral? Hugo, the family dog, kindly...
View ArticleHow The Light Gets In 2014
After a long hard academic year at the chalk face (although, even I don't use chalk any more) it’s that time of the year when the Rowlands family begins its summer European exodus. I’ll be speaking in...
View ArticleHow The Light Gets In 2013
Here and here are a couple of talks from last year's Festival.
View ArticleHow The Light Gets In
I, and the rest of my family, had a brilliant time @HTLGIFestival - the annual festival of philosophy and music held at Hay-on-Wye. It's great to see the festival growing every year, despite some...
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