Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

The following essay is essentially an expanded and updated version of a previous blog post I've written called:  Why are we all so convi...

I'd say we haven't detected any aliens because: 1) Life in the Universe will be very uncommon given that a suitable star and planet ...

A member of parliament in the UK has called for the reintroduction of capital punishment.  See here .  Is this a good idea?   Before reachin...

I'm sick of hearing in the past few days that Hawking said that there's no role for God since the Universe can be explained by physi...

In his last book Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking said: "No one created the universe and no one directs our fate....

Reading this article regarding research into reincarnation it says: But what about the ‘scientific community’? Isn’t the fact that you p...

Most people seem to take it for granted that the brain produces consciousness and they surmise this because when the brain is damaged, the p...

At the outset I need to stress that I specifically have in mind the reductive materialism that has prevailed in the West since the birth of ...

Note:  This response is approximately 13,000 words long. I have a shorter version of approximately 5,000 words that I have called A Review ...