Journeyman Philosopher

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

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Humanity’s Achilles’ heel

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Good and evil are characteristics that imbue almost every aspect of our nature. It’s why it’s the subject of so many narratives, including m...
Sunday, 25 September 2022

What we observe and what is reality are distinct in physics

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 I’ve been doing this blog for 15 years now, and in that time some of my ideas have changed or evolved, and, in some areas, my knowledge has...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Ontology and epistemology; the twin pillars of philosophy

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 I remember in my introduction to formal philosophy that there were 5 branches: ontology, epistemology, logic, aesthetics and ethics. Logic ...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

How does science work?

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 This post effectively piggybacks onto my last post, because, when it comes to knowledge and truth, nothing beats science except mathematics...
Wednesday, 10 August 2022

What is knowledge? And is it true?

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 This is the subject of a YouTube video I watched recently by Jade. I like Jade’s and Tibees’ videos, because they are both young Australia...
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Tuesday, 2 August 2022

AI and sentience

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I am a self-confessed sceptic that AI can ever be ‘sentient’, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. Though proving that an AI is sentient might ...
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Paul P. Mealing

Paul P. Mealing
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