Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility..

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart..

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think b….

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?.

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regardi….

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird..

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, ….

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consolin….

This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sph….

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything..

Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by t….

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march..

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste..

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up..

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the relig….

The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lo….

There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specif….

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. Th….

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they ar….

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles..

Chance is as relentless as necessity..