Journeyman Philosopher

Philosophy, at its best, challenges our long held views, such that we examine them more deeply than we might otherwise consider.

Monday, 29 July 2013

Why the economic growth paradigm is past its use-by date

Last week’s New Scientist (20 July 2013, pp.42-5) had an intriguing article on the relationship between demographics and economic health in...

Friday, 19 July 2013

Writing’s 3 Essential Skills

I’ve written on this topic before and even given classes in it, as well as talks, but this is a slightly different approach. Basically, I’m ...

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Malala Day

A 16 year old girl , shot by the Taliban for going to school, stands defiant and delivers an impassioned and inspirational speech to the U...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Fruits of Corporate Greed

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about global feudalism , but it’s much worse than I thought. This eye-opening programme is sham...

Algebra - the language of mathematics

I know I’m doing things back-to-front – arse-about - as we say in Oz (and possibly elsewhere) but, considering all the esoteric mathemati...

Sunday, 23 June 2013

Time again to talk about time

Last week’s New Scientist’s cover declared SPACE versus TIME; one has to go. But which? (15 June 2013). This served as a rhetorical intr...

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