Journeyman Philosopher

In a not-so-recent discussion I had on Stephen Law’s blog , I had trouble convincing some of the participants that, not only is there a diff...

I mentioned in my last post, a recent acquisition: What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger. This is a book that I’d heard about on more than a f...

When I started this blog, over 2 years ago now, I never anticipated picking up ‘followers’ and now I feel the need to maintain some sort of ...

Yes, I know it was released over 6 months ago, but I’ ve just seen it. I don’t normally review movies on this blog – in fact, I’ ve only d...

In some respects this logically follows on from a post I wrote in July this year, Quantum Mechanical Philosophy , which is one of the more e...

I’ve written on this subject before ( Living in the 21 st Century , Sep.07; and The Problem with Democracy , Jun.08 ) but a recent conversa...