•     If our world is to be a decent world in the future, we must acknowledge right now that we are citizens of one interdependent world, [...]

  Humanist Inspirations: Martha Nussbaum

  March 15, 2014
• A MANIFESTO FOR A CRITICAL HUMANISM IN  SOCIOLOGY ON QUESTIONING THE HUMAN SOCIAL WORLD  Ken Plummer (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, [...]

  A MANIFESTO FOR A CRITICAL HUMANISM IN SOCIOLOGY now published

  June 16, 2013
• Handouts for recent presentations       Today I have posted some summary handouts of recent lectures that I have given.   The [...]

  Some Recent Presentations

  March 23, 2013
• This week I am launching the first draft of  A MANIFESTO FOR A CRITICAL HUMANISM IN SOCIOLOGY ON QUESTIONING THE HUMAN SOCIAL WORLD     First [...]

  The Humanist Manifesto is launched

  November 25, 2012

• On Human Potentials, Capabilities and Rights   “What is each person able to do and to be?” (Nussbaum, 2011: p18). A musician must make [...]

  Better Worlds: On Human Potentials, Capabilities and Rights

  July 25, 2012