Journeyman Philosopher

I’ve been reading a book, The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent, subtitled A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning . At close ...

I don’t often review novels on this blog – in fact, I think this may be my third. Actually, the title is exactly as written above, so people...

This is another ‘Question of the Month’ from Philosophy Now . I’ve submitted 6 in a number of years and they’ve published 5. In this case, I...

I wasn’t even sure I could write a post about this, but it’s too important to ignore. Earlier this week I watched an investigative programme...

Actually the competition (ran over the 8-9 Apr weekend) was called the SFL Challenge (Sci-Fi London Challenge), which I came across in New S...

A short while ago, New Scientist (Issue: 28 January 2017) had on its cover the headline, The Meaning of Life . On reading the article, titl...