Journeyman Philosopher

Most people reading this already have preconceived answers, but they would be pushed to defend them beyond: 150 years of scientific investig...

This is an essay I wrote in April 2000, but I include it here because it follows on logically from my last posting. Also, it brings a lot of...

My contention is that existentialism is the unconscious philosophy of secular Western society, and the following dissertation is my attempt ...

Like, almost all of my postings so far, this was triggered by something I read. American Scientist (Sep-Oct 07) published some excerpts from...

It seems that a lot of my blogs are the result of a response to someone else’s opinion or something they’ve written. This posting is no exce...

This is a letter I wrote to Michael C. Corballis after reading something he wrote in New Scientist. He wrote a longer article on the same su...