Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

  The following article, I’m stuck in a miserable and futile existence , quotes someone who laments: I see a therapist once a week. But I ha...

1. Preliminary I recently finished reading  The Soul Fallacy  by Julien Musolino for the second time, and I thought I'd pen down some of...

Are we essentially souls and will our souls continue on after we die? Both from a philosophical perspective and by virtue of all the evidenc...

After death I don't think our individual selves or souls are subsumed into a universal soup of consciousness, which I regard as being cl...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...