Silence | With Monica Vieira, Rachel Muers, and Naomi Waltham-Smith
Rachel Muers
74.16
8 December 2021
27 November 2025
We tend to view silence as the opposite of speech, but silence too can speak volumes. There is considerable interest in free speech, what about the ability to remain silent? Does silence have a particular value, and how can we achieve it in our busy, noisy world? Examining perspectives from across philosophy, religion, and political thought, we challenge our assumptions about silence, questioning its relation to thinking, and asking whether it might serve as a form of political resistance.
Speakers
โข ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฎ, Professor of Political Theory, University of York
โข ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต๐ฎ๐บ-๐ฆ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ต, Reader in Philosophy, University of Warwick
โข ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐น ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, Professor of Theology, University of Leeds
Chair
โข ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Thought, RHUL
Recorded on 23 November 2021
โจโจโจ More info: https://www.philosophy-forum.org
