Journeyman Philosopher

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

Saturday, 26 March 2022

Symptoms of living in a post-truth world

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  I recently had 2 arguments with different people, who took extreme positions on what we mean by truth. One argued that there is no differe...
Friday, 18 March 2022

Our eternal fascination with Light and Dark

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  Someone on FaceBook posted one of those inane questions:   If you could delete one thing in the world what would it be?   Obvious answers ...
Friday, 28 January 2022

What is existentialism?

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  A few years back, I wrote a ‘vanity piece’,   My philosophy in 24 dot points , which I admit is a touch pretentious. But I’ve been prompte...
Sunday, 23 January 2022

We are not just numbers, but neither is the Universe

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  A few years back I caught up with someone I went to school with, whom I hadn’t seen in decades, and, as it happened, had studied civil eng...
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022

Space and time: still a mystery after all this (time?)

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How’s that for a self-referential title, hence the question mark and parentheses. It highlights the fact that time is an everyday phenomenon...
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Saturday, 25 December 2021

Revisiting Donald Hoffman’s alternative theory of evolution

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  Back in November 2016, so 5 years ago, I wrote a post in response to an academic paper by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash called   Obj...
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Paul P. Mealing

Paul P. Mealing
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