Nathan Hawkins

MUST ATTEND LIVE EVENT: *The neuroscience of libertarian free will*

This Saturday, the 18th of April, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be having a live discussion with Prof Peter Tse. Peter is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, but is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 2024 he published two books with Oxford University Press: “A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will” and “Free Imagination.”

I have been very interested in Peter's work since I heard of his talk at the serious metaphysics group at Cambridge. Peter presents a detailed account of the structures in the brain that result in a form of top-down 'informational causation' that provide the conditions for libertarian free will within a physicalist metaphysics. He has debated Robert Sapolsky on this issue and been on Closer to Truth, but to understand his work requires a stronger familiarity with its details. So I have recently been going through his (free) online course on his work, and will be eagerly waiting to have my questions answered. I am very excited for this as I think Peter is doing important and groundbreaking work.

This live event with Q&A can be accessed by Good members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins. An edited version of our conversation will be posted to YouTube a month later.

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Nathan Hawkins

LIVE EVENT! Tomorrow, the 11th of April, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be explaining and discussing John Foster's paper 'The Succinct Case for Idealism'. There will be opportunities to ask question and discuss with all attendees.

This live event can be accessed by Beautiful members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins.
See you there!

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Nathan Hawkins

LIVE EVENT! This Saturday, the 7th of March, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be explaining and discussing J.M.E McTaggart's famous paper on time: 'The Unreality of Time'. There will be opportunities to ask question and discuss with all attendees.

This live event can be accessed by Beautiful members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins.
See you there!

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Nathan Hawkins

LIVE EVENT! This Saturday, the 7th of February, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be explaining and discussing Thomas Nagel's famous paper on consciousness: 'What is it like to be a bat?'. There will be opportunities to ask question and discuss with all attendees.

This live event can be accessed by Beautiful members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins.



I hope to see some of you there!

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Nathan Hawkins

LIVE EVENT! Tomorrow, the 24th of January, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be having a live discussion with Dr Farbod Akhlaghi, focusing on his research into truth in ethics. In it, Farbod puts forward novel ways of trying to make sense of the relation between moral truths and the world. And our discussion will be followed by a time of Q&A with attendees.

Farbod Akhlaghi is Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. His primary research concerns moral philosophy, metaphysics, and their intersections and histories. He has published in, amongst other places, Analysis, Ethics, Mind, and Synthese, and is currently writing a book for Cambridge University Press entitled Truth in Ethics. Further info about Farbod and his work is available here: farbodakhlaghi-g.weebly.com

This live event with Q&A can be accessed by Good members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins. An edited version of our conversation will be posted to YouTube a month later.

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Nathan Hawkins

LIVE EVENT! This Saturday, the 10th of January, from 4-5.30pm GMT, I will be explaining and discussing F.H. Bradley's views on Faith (both religious faith and more broadly). There will be opportunities to ask question and discuss with all attendees.

This live event can be accessed by Beautiful members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins.


I hope to see some of you there!

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Nathan Hawkins

Happy New Year everybody! I got a nice surprise today of finding my book is now on sale in Waterstones, Amazon, and from Springer, with a release date of the 3rd of February. So for any Frege scholars out there, you can visit the links below. I warn that it is very specialised! But I plan to work on a more general audience book this year. So more details about that to come. And may you all have a prosperous and blessed 2026!
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/freges-views-on-truth/nat…
Springer: link.springer.com/book/9783032097750
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Freges-Views-Truth-Investigations…

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Nathan Hawkins

On the 20th of December at 5pm GMT I will have a discussion with Professor Michael Potter centred around Frege's discovery of the sense-reference distinction and the ideas that followed from that regarding meaning, thought, and truth. But we will also discuss Russell, Bradley, truth and idealism too.

Michael Potter is Professor of Logic and a life fellow in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University. His research interests lie mainly in the history of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of religion. He is a giant in his field, with countless publications and books.

This live event with Q&A can be accessed by Good members and above from my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/drnathanhawkins. An edited version of our conversation will be posted to YouTube a month later.

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