Journeyman Philosopher

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

30 August 2025

Godel and Wittgenstein; same goal, different approach

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 The current issue of Philosophy Now (Issue 169, Aug/Sep 2025) has as its theme, The Sources of Knowledge Issue , with a clever graphic on ...
18 August 2025

Reality, metaphysics, infinity

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 This post arose from 3 articles I read in as many days: 2 on the same specific topic; and 1 on an apparently unrelated topic. I’ll start wi...
24 July 2025

The edge of time

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This is a contentious idea, despite the fact that we all believe we experience it all the time. Many physicists, including ones I admire, an...
18 July 2025

Evil arises out of complacency

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 I was going to post this on Facebook and still might, but I think my blog a more apposite home.   Evil arises out of complacency, which is ...
24 June 2025

The infinite monkey theorem and the anthropic principle

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 I was originally going to write this as an addendum to my not-so-recent post, The problem with physics , but it became obvious that it dese...
17 June 2025

Sympathy and empathy; what’s the difference?

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 This arose from an article I read in Philosophy Now (Issue 167, April/May 2025) by James R. Robinson, who developed his ideas while writin...
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Paul P. Mealing

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