Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 November 2025

Barely conscious(ness)

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You may not have been conscious of it, but big arguments have been swirling around the issue of consciousness (for the example that prompted...
Friday, 22 August 2025

On “Losing my religion”….

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I am a mandolin player. Or perhaps more accurately I should say that I play the mandolin. On this side of the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic, mandolin...
Friday, 24 January 2025

Reading for 2025 (so far...)

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  How long does it take for a tradition to become a tradition? I have no idea. But I think I'll stick with one that began only twelve mo...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Why does science matter?

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Although it’s really my last post that prompted this one, I am admittedly returning to something I’ve blogged about before. It was a while a...
Sunday, 31 January 2021

Life in the Pandemic XVIII: Truth in trouble…?

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Truth is having a hard time. This statement of the obvious is worth stating for two reasons. Firstly, it implies that there is something cal...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VII: Don’t panic, there’s still plenty of books to read…

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Frank Zappa is quoted as having said “So many books, so little time”. But of course, for a while now, many of us have had considerably more ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic VI: Bigging up science - but a bit too much?

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You may not have heard of Jennifer Doudna. But then there was a time when no one had heard of Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein. And of cour...
Friday, 14 February 2020

Surely you’re joking (Mr Feynman)?

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Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist, who is perhaps best known these days for his role in the Rogers Commission which inve...