Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism.

The entire Jeremy Bentham mystery remains mostly small cpm[pared to other Lost mysteries, but it was still important for its part. There are several reasons that Ben manipulates Locke to get ...

Update, Feb. 24, 2020: While Jeremy Bentham's preserved head is still on display, his preserved body has been moved to a new, very public home in a glass box in the University College London's new ...

The severed head of eccentric philosopher Jeremy Bentham is to go on display for the first time in decades and scientists are using the opportunity to test his DNA to find out if he was autistic.

Famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham — an oddball British gentleman who requested that his dead body be mummified and put on public display — is missing some rings.

Now, Bentham's 269-year-old decomposing head will appear on display for the first time in decades at University College London. Bentham will be part of a UCL Culture exhibition " exploring the ...

THE British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head is to go on display at University College London for the first time in decades. His body has been kept in a glass case within the unive… ...

The rings were fairly standard for the Victorian era, but Bentham’s decision to donate his body was more of “a social taboo,” said UCL curator Subhadra Das in a 2018 statement. Jeremy ...

Jeremy Bentham was perhaps as much a social reformer as a philosopher and is also well known for his many inventions. His major contribution to philosophy is the theory of utilitarianism.

University College London scientists are hunting down 26 memorial rings bequeathed by Jeremy Bentham to those he knew and admired, featuring his bust in silhouette and strands of his hair.

Bentham was a leading philosopher and social thinker of the 18th and early 19th century, was pivotal in the establishment of Britain’s first police force, the Thames River Police in 1800 which ...

Subhadra Das, Curator at UCL Culture, said: “Bentham revolutionised our idea of what death is. “When Bentham donated his body for the advancement of science it was considered a social taboo ...