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Some Tips for Dealing with Hostile TV Interviewers
I have been thinking about all those poor folk who are invited to appear on TV only to find themselves ambushed by the BBC and Channel 4. For example being invited on to talk about your book and then simply being personally attacked, but with no mention of your book at all. (Like Rod Liddle on Newsnight […]
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Creating Diversity in Thinking in Boards & Senior Management
The more alike the Board members or senior managers are (to each other) the larger is the challenge to counter the acquired tendency for people in groups to think alike. So one of the things I do with groups of managers and Board members is to elicit difference. Initially I suggest to them new ways […]
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Ethics and Philosophy in the Boardroom
Dr. McCall created and delivered two workshops for Edinburgh University Business School with one of their major corporate clients: 1) Ethics in the Boardroom With the Maritime company Dr. McCall led an investigation into the question “Is it ethical to do business with an organisation that you suspect might be unethical?”. using a real case […]
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Open letter to The Guardian
Letters Teach philosophy in our schools guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011 20.59 BST larger | smaller We share the view that introducing philosophy lessons in the classroom from a very early age would have immense benefits in terms of boosting British schoolchildren’s reasoning and conceptual skills, better equipping them for the complexities of life in the 21st century, where […]
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Privacy and Doing CoPI with groups
While being interviewed about The Philosophy Doctor last week , an important issue came up: the issue of privacy. One of the features of my CoPI method that makes it different from other discussion or dialogue practises is that I do not require participants to put forward their own personal opinions. They may if they […]
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Doing Philosophy with young children – 2011 CoPI Interview Catherine McCall
2011 CoPI interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlTtmpNZPe0
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