Journeyman Philosopher

This is another answer I wrote on Quora. I’ve forgotten the question, but the answer is self-explanatory. It doesn’t cover anything new (fro...

A recurring theme on my blog has been the limits of what we can know. So Marcus du Sautoy’s book, What We Cannot Know , fits the bill. I acq...

It’s very rare for me to publish 2 posts in 2 days, and possibly unprecedented to publish 3 in less than a week. However, I couldn’t let thi...

This is another Question of the Month from Philosophy Now . The last two I submitted weren’t published, but I really don’t mind as the answ...

I wrote this, because it came up on Quora as a question, What makes good writing? I should say up front that there are a lot of much better ...

  I recently read   The Grand Design   by Stephen Hawking (2010), co-authored by Leonard Mlodinow, who gets ‘second billing’ (with much smal...