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peter vardy conference anyone?

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I went to the philosophy one last year in London. Vardy's actually pretty interesting though a friend of mine did fall asleep on my shoulder during the ontological talk by Arliss - possibly because we'd never studied the ontological in our lives before and didn't have a clue what she was going on about. : /

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RJA

ye julie arliss isn't a great speaker, she padded out her presentation with little video clips and animations

*rolls eyes*

Reply 42

sidekick

True she's not as charismatic as PV, but he reeeally isn't someone you'd want to have to talk after!! But she really knows her stuff and I found her calmness to be a bit of a relief to the senses after the manicness (much as I enjoy it) of PV. She seems really nice. At least she doesn't SPIT on you... :p:

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jomo

^^ lol, good point.

Quick question for those who saw the Arliss ontological presentation - were they whales or dolphins in the background of her PowerPoint thing? We had a major debate on the coach back about this. :P

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Calvin

schrodingerscat

VARDY IS A LEGEND! go and be learned. if you really are into philosophy (as opposed to some of the twots in my seminars who seem to not really get it nor want to; or think they've got it sussed and so by definition havnt) then you'll be able to follow him 100%, he's the best speaker I've ever heard.

I'm sure I'd be fine. But I've taken an instinctive dislike to the man just from reading this thread. It's coming across a little too cult pyramid scheme. I didn't even think you could do that in philosophy, pyramid philosophy schemes are hardly a niche market.

Reply 45

ice_cube

Peter Vardy rocks. His knowledge knows no bounds.

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sidekick

ice_cube

Peter Vardy rocks. His knowledge knows no bounds.

Reply 47

schrodingerscat

Calvin

True, my old ethics teacher reckons he must be raking it in: basically a monopoly on the A-level books and he's been doing these courses since time began. Maybe before (...and on the seventh day there was Vardy?)

Arliss is clearly some golddiggin' ho.

Reply 48

sidekick

schrodingerscat

Arliss is clearly some golddiggin' ho.

Reply 49

RJA

schrodingerscat

he's been doing these courses since time began

he started off as an accountant...seriously

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MeganRolston

Hiya, does anybody know where I can get a copy of the study notes of the conference from? because I was unable to go but they seem really useful :frown: