In my previous post I touched briefly on arguments of the kind that says, “It won’t happen to me.” These arguments argue against regulating an...
Read MoreI promise to get off this topic soon, but gun control (or lack of it) in the US is obviously on many people’s minds at the moment, and for fairly obvious reasons....
Read MoreOne of the oddities of the gun control issue is the assumption that this is an issue that naturally divides along liberal and conservative lines (I’ll bracket off...
Read MoreI’ve recently done an interview with Reap Paden of The Angry Atheist. This has now been posted as a podcast on the Angry Atheist site. Reap and I talk about a...
Read MoreI’ve written a couple of new posts at Talking Philosophy, dealing with a particular argument against the existence of free will. This argument is based on the...
Read MoreThe Philosophers’ Magazine has listed the best, or “best”, philosophy books of (late 2011 and) 2012, as chosen by a rather formidable list of...
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