Journeyman Philosopher

  The latest issue of   Philosophy Now   (Issue 140, Oct/Nov 2020) has Hegel as its theme. I confess that really the only thing I knew about...

  The short answer is no; there is no ‘fire in the equations’. One needs to be careful not to conflate epistemology with ontology. Let’s loo...

It’s the eve of the US presidential election, which both sides are arguing will determine the country’s (and by extension, the world’s) traj...

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...