Journeyman Philosopher

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

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Plato’s 2400 year legacy

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I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating: no one totally agrees with everything by someone else. In fact, we each of us change our v...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Freeman Dyson: 15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020

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I only learned of Dyson's passing yesterday, quite by accident. I didn't hear about it through any news service. In this video, Dy...
Monday, 24 February 2020

Is Kant relevant to the modern world?

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I recently wrote a comment on Quora that addresses this very question, but I need to backtrack a couple of decades. When I studied philosop...
Friday, 14 February 2020

Philosophy in politics

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I wrote a letter to  Philosophy Now  (April last year) in response to an article about whether philosophy is still relevant in the modern, ...
Sunday, 9 February 2020

The confessions of a self-styled traveller in the world of ideas

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Every now and then, on very rare occasions, you have a memory or a feeling that was so long ago that it feels almost foreign, like it was e...
Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Australia’s bush fires; 2019-2020

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The one word that was used over and over again to describe this ongoing event over a period of 4-5 months was ‘unprecedented’. Australia is...
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Paul P. Mealing

Paul P. Mealing
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