Journeyman Philosopher

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

19 May 2024

It all started with Euclid

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 I’ve mentioned Euclid before, but this rumination was triggered by a post on Quora that someone wrote about Plato, where they argued, alon...
05 May 2024

Why you need memory to have free will

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 This is so obvious once I explain it to you, you’ll wonder why no one else ever mentions it. I’ve pointed out a number of times before that...
30 April 2024

Logic rules

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I’ve written on this topic before , but a question on Quora made me revisit it.   Self-referencing can lead to contradiction or to illuminat...
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22 April 2024

Kant’s 300th Birthday (22nd April)

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 I wouldn’t have known this if I hadn’t read about it in Philosophy Now . I have to confess I’ve only read the first and most famous of his ...
20 April 2024

Sigmund Freud’s and C.S. Lewis’s fictional encounter

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Last week I went and saw the movie, Freud’s Last Session , where Anthony Hopkins plays Freud, when he was in London on the very cusp of WW2 ...
16 April 2024

Do you think Hoffman’s theories about reality and perception are true?

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I’ve written about this twice before in some detail, but this was a question on Quora, I addressed last year. I include it here because it...
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Paul P. Mealing

Paul P. Mealing
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