The Philosophers’ Book Club: Iris Murdoch's UNDER THE NET

Hannah Marije Altorf, null, Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London)

We're discussing Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net. As both a philosopher and a novelist, Murdoch wanted to exploit the advantages ‘of having a mind on the borders of philosophy, literature, and politics’. True to that end, her first novel, Under the Net, is a comic meditation on everything from the nature of truth to living a moral life.

At the Philosophers’ Book Club, we select a work of fiction for philosophical dissection. Although you are encouraged to read the book in advance, it is by no means necessary.

Speakers

• Hannah Marije Altorf, Reader in Philosophy, St. Mary’s University
• Lucy Bolton, Reader in Film Studies, QMUL
• Mara-Daria Cojocaru,Lecturer in Practical Philosophy, Munich School of Philosophy

Chair

• Shahidha Bari, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Professor, University of the Arts London

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