Journeyman Philosopher

 This post arose from 3 articles I read in as many days: 2 on the same specific topic; and 1 on an apparently unrelated topic. I’ll start wi...

  Philosophy Now (UK publication) that I’ve subscribed to for well over a decade now, is a bi-monthly (so 6 times a year) periodical, and i...

 I’ve been procrastinating about writing this post for some time, because it comes closest to a ‘theory’ of Life, the Universe and Everythin...

 I watched a YouTube debate (90 mins) between Sir Roger Penrose and William Lane Craig , and, if I’m honest, I found it a bit frustrating be...

I’ve written on this topic before , but a question on Quora made me revisit it.   Self-referencing can lead to contradiction or to illuminat...

Last week I went and saw the movie, Freud’s Last Session , where Anthony Hopkins plays Freud, when he was in London on the very cusp of WW2 ...

 You may have heard of this mythic place. There was an article in the same Philosophy Now magazine I referenced in my last post , titled Wo...

 I recently read an article in Philosophy Now (Issue 154, Feb/Mar 2023), jointly written by Owen Griffith and A.C. Paseau, titled One Logic...

  A few years back, I wrote a ‘vanity piece’,   My philosophy in 24 dot points , which I admit is a touch pretentious. But I’ve been prompte...

  I’ve just read A.C. Grayling’s book,   The God Argument; The Case  against  Religion and  for  Humanism   (his emphasis). It’s really a po...

Last month’s issue of Philosophy Now (Issue 132, June/July 2019) had as its theme ‘ West meets East ’, so it was full of articles about Eas...