Journeyman Philosopher

In the 2 April 2011 edition of New Scientist , the editorial was titled Rights for robots; We will know when it’s time to recognise artific...

This arose from an article in last week’s New Scientist titled Thou shalt believe – or not by Jonathan Lanman (26 March 2011, pp.38-9). La...

I’ve just completed reading Aayan Hirsi Ali’s autobiography, Infidel . It’s the latest book in my book club (refer my blog roll) following o...

This is, in effect, a follow-up from a previous post on Wiki-Leaks ( The forgotten man , last month), though from a different point of view....

I recently wrote a post on E. Brian Davies’ book, Why Beliefs Matter ( Metaphysics in mathematics, science and religion ). Davies is Profe...

This is excellent journalism , whatever your view is on the story. It makes me angry, because the person being punished is allegedly the per...