Garfield Weston Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Education at the University of Buckingham
Professor Anthony O'Hear : Chavagnes Great Books 2009
Professor Anthony O’Hear
Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, editor of the journal Philosophy, author of many books on the subject, formerly Government Advisor on Education and Teacher Training. He is a philosopher with a special interest in education.
His publications include:
- Karl Popper (1980)
- The Element of Fire (1989)
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1990)
- Beyond Evolution (1997)
- After Progress (1999)
- Introducing Christianity (2000)
- Philosophy in the New Century (2001)
- Plato’s Children (2006)
- The Great Books: From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe’s Faust: A journey through 2,500 years of the West’s classic literature (2007)
Robert Asch: The Great Books, Chavagnes 2009
Robert Asch, BA(Hons), (Toronto)
Co-editor of the international cultural periodical The St Austin Review, Robert Asch is on sabbatical from his post as Head of Humanities at Chavagnes International College and is currently research fellow at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, USA.
Interview with Robert Asch on the occasion of the launch of St Austin Review.
Founder and Principal of Chavagnes and founder of the Saint Austin Review, Ferdi teaches humanities at Chavagnes and writes regularly on cultural topics.International College
Ferdi McDermott’s Personal blog
Denis Boyles, BA (Baltimore), MA, (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
The author of two books of poetry, a book of design theory and more than a dozen works of travel, history and commentary, including a 2005 critique of French énarques. As a journalist, he has served on the staffs of publications as diverse as National Lampoon, The New York Times Magazine and Men’s Health. His work has appeared in Esquire, Readers Digest, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Review Online and in many other newspapers and magazines. In February 2008, Doubleday published his latest book, Superior, Nebraska, an informal survey of Midwestern American values. He is currently at work on a book about Edwardian publishing in the UK and America for Knopf.
