James Panton

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James Panton on BBC Newsnight, 20 August 2007

Science vs Superstition: the case for a new enlightenment, edited by James Panton & Oliver Marc Hartwich. Published by Policy Exchange, 2006.

James Panton is an academic and is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He has written for Living Marxism and Spiked , spoken at the Battle of Ideas, officiated for Debating Matters, is a co-founder , campaigns co-ordinator and press officer for the anti-regulation Manifesto Club and has spoken at the East Midlands Salon.

James Panton is "lecturer in politics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and chair of the Post-Graduate Forum" - part of the Institute of Ideas.

Panton's Battle of Ideas biography states:

In 2006 James was involved with Pro-Test, the pro animal research campaign in support of the Oxford University bio-medical research facility. Work on the issue of animal rights and the arguments around animal research led James to look more broadly at the issue of contemporary society’s attitudes to science, and his preliminary thoughts on this issue found their expression in the book he co-edited with Oliver Hartwhich of the think tank Policy Exchange - Science vs Superstition: the case for a new scientific enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006).

Affiliations

• Manifesto Club
• Institute of Ideas Chair of their Postgraduate forum
• Spiked , has written articles
• Battle of Ideas

Publications, Resources, Contact, Notes

Publications

• J Panton, 'Intellectual influences on the New Left in America: C Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse'. In journal: Reconstruction Vol. 8 No. 1. 2008. Available online at: http://reconstruction.eserver.org/081/panton.shtml
• J Panton (ed), Science vs Superstition:the case for a new enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006).
• J Panton 'Animal Rights and the Culture of Mysanthropy', in Science vs Superstition (Policy Exchange, 2006).
• J Panton, 'What are Universities For?' in D Cummings (ed) The Changing Role of the Public Intelectual (Routledge, 2005).
• J Panton, 'The Politics of Experience' in Studies in Marxism Vol 10, 2005.
• J Panton, 'Challenging Students' in D Hayes (ed) Debating Education: Issues for the New Millenium (Routledge Falmer, 2004).
• J Panton, 'Universities, knowledge and the intellectuals', in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol 6, No 4, Winter 2003.

Resources

• BBC NewsNight 20 August 2007 transcript
• Profile, "James Panton", Manifesto Club website, accessed 29 Dec 2010
• Twitter: jimpanton

Contact

College: St Johns College

Office Details: Rm 11, 46 St Giles

Phone No: +44 (0) 7792 795 462

Website: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk

Online biography