Disagreeable Me

I have briefly discussed mathematical Platonism in previous articles . This post is going to contain my current thoughts about it. ...

There are two major flavours of naturalism - methodological naturalism and metaphysical or philosophical naturalism. The former essenti...

In my previous post, I alluded to an argument made by John Lucas and popularised by Roger Penrose against the possibility of AI, and th...

In a previous post, I have posed a question which seems to admit of two contradictory explanations. Go read that post before this one or t...

Kitler photographed by Amy Halligan Why is it that we might have no problem suspending our disbelief when watching a movie about an...

Photo: Nick See I wanted to call this post 'The Lottery Paradox', but it turns out that title is already taken by a very simila...

The great hope of physicists such as Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss is that a deep understanding of physical law will ultimately le...

Naturalism is a metaphysical proposition assumed by scientists (at least real scientists!) as they go about their work. Naturalism hol...