by Peter J Adams | Dec 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Jude and I awoke early on a fine mid-March Saturday morning. We were going on an adventure. Fiona Moir, a colleague in the General Practice department in our School, had invited us to her fiftieth birthday party which she was holding across a weekend on Motutapu, an...
by Peter J Adams | Dec 4, 2020 | Existential Issues, Spirituality
On Thursday 12 November, the School of Population Health hosted the launch of two sole-authored books by Professor Peter Adams. This was the first time that an event like this had been held in the new Building 507. The first book, How to Talk about Spiritual...
by Peter J Adams | Nov 8, 2020 | Existential Issues
The concept of “finitude” is used by a number of thinkers as a catch-all concept that refers to myriad of ways we encounter what bounds and constrains us as we go about our daily lives. The nature of these boundaries is signaled in momentary flashes that pass us at...
by Peter J Adams | Oct 13, 2020 | Addiction
A common way of thinking about the ‘self’ is to see it primarily as an individual object and that this object—or particle—is the appropriate focal point for understanding addiction. Indeed, there are several ways I can view myself as a particle. I am certainly a...
by Peter J Adams | Oct 10, 2020 | Existential Issues
Fifteen years have passed by since I was first diagnosed with celiac disease. It was news I did not wish to hear. Initially I was reluctant to take it on board, but I had little choice in the matter. A few months later a letter arrived from our Ministry of Health...
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