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Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Philosophy has been accused of making no progress, does it therefore make it pointless?

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  Science makes progress so why doesn't Philosophy? Since the scientific revolution of the 17th Century, the progress of science has be...
Friday, 8 April 2022

My beliefs regarding a "God".

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I'm not an atheist, at least not the modern western kind with the associated beliefs that the Universe is a brute fact, and we are just ...
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Thursday, 24 March 2022

Is there much point in arguing with others?

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Whatever the topic it seems to be a pretty much universal tendency for those who oppose a particular stance or position, to only address the...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2022

The degrading of our mental faculties as we age

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I know I keep banging on about the same topic, but I just find it extraordinary  that people (mainly skeptics, but also some believers) thin...
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Sunday, 6 March 2022

Self-floating books

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Let's imagine there's a stack of books floating in mid-air. There appears to be no reason for it.  But suppose someone says we can e...
Friday, 25 February 2022

The Alleged Problems with Interactive Substance Dualism

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I read the following blog post   Arguments Against Mind-Body/Substance Dualism and Responses .  I typed out a response which I posted in my ...
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Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Should the rich be subject to a wealth tax?

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I frequently hear the sentiment that it is immoral for Governments to tax people. If people want their money to fund a health service, or t...
Tuesday, 11 January 2022

What physicists claim exists can be doubted

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Do our theories in physics mirror how reality really is ? Physicists invoke a bewildering plethora of subatomic particles and sometimes even...
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Sunday, 28 November 2021

Thoughts on the Winning BICS Essay

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All 29 essays from the 2021 BICS essay contest that have been awarded a prize are now available to download and can be read for free from he...
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Thursday, 18 November 2021

Hostile reactions to the evidence for an afterlife

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I read this Mail article concerning ghosts. In the comments someone says: Why we pay the BBC to promulgate such nonsense at further expens...
Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Bigelow competition for the best essay on the evidence for an afterlife

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The results of this competition have recently been announced.  Go here .  Apparently all 29 essays that won a prize will shortly be freely a...
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Tuesday, 2 November 2021

A comment on a skeptical article on Near-Death Experiences

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I read the following article two days ago: Can We Explain Near-Death Experiences? The author concludes that, " NDEs are probably caused...
Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Reincarnation and its Critics, Part 3: Patterns in Reincarnation Cases are determined by Culture

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In the psi encyclopaedia entry Patterns in Reincarnation Cases   it says: Sceptics of a reincarnation interpretation of the cases point to ...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Reincarnation and its Critics, Part 2: Reincarnation isn't Falsifiable

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The falsifiability criterion was advanced by  Karl Popper  to demarcate scientific from non-scientific theories. The idea is that if one has...
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