Journeyman Philosopher

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

Thursday, 24 September 2015

What is now?

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Notice I ask what and not when, because ‘now’, as we experience it, is the most ephemeral of all experiences. As I’ve explained in another p...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Are Multiverses the solution or the problem?

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Notice I use the plural for something that represents a collection of universes. That’s because there are multiple versions of them; accordi...
Sunday, 13 September 2015

Physics, mathematics, the Universe - is Reason its raison d'ĂȘtre?

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I’ve just read Paul Davies’ The Mind of God: Science & The Search for Ultimate Meaning , published in 1992, so a couple of decades old n...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Ruminations on The Sparrow (SF novel by Mary Doria Russell, 1996)

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Russell is a paleoanthropologist and so is one of the characters in her book (Anne) whom one thinks may represent the author’s world view, e...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Oliver Sacks (9 July 1933 - 30 August 2015)

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Oliver Sacks died last Sunday, but I only learned about it today. He is best known for his book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Far from Men (Loin des Hommes)

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This is a movie starring Viggo Mortensen, set in Algiers in 1954 and based on a short story by Albert Camus. Watching it, I was conscious of...
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