Author Archives: Lewis Coyne

Two philosophers have dominated my attention from my undergraduate degree through to my PhD and beyond. The first is Martin Heidegger, and the second is his one-time student, Hans Jonas. I hadn’t encountered Heidegger’s work prior to becoming an undergraduate, and at that time was instead impressed by other great ‘Continental’ European philosophers: Hegel, Marx,Continue reading “Heidegger and(/or) Jonas”

The immediate background to this post is the electoral quagmire that the Labour party – to which I belong – currently finds itself. Labour has been out of power for eleven years, lost four elections on the trot (the last calamitously), has just lost a by-election to the ruling Conservative party and may very wellContinue reading “The Left, and Twitter’s role in its downfall”

Thanks for taking a look at my blog. My plan is to use it to keep track of – and hopefully develop – ideas, thoughts and reflections on issues that interest me. I expect that these will, for the most part, relate to philosophy, politics, technology, and nature (human and non-human), since those are theContinue reading “Welcome!”