The Validity of Religious Experiences
The Blues Brothers having a religious experience The question of the epistemology of religious experience deals with the issue whether information obtained through religious experiences can be...
View ArticleVenom Crystals and the Meaning of Life
I am currently writing an essay on futility and its relation to the meaning of life, based on a paper by William Joske.1. Joske argues that philosophy is a dangerous activity because almost all...
View ArticleThe limits of Dawkinism: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
I have been reading Richard Dawkins‘ book, The God Delusion. Although I largely agree with his atheist point of view, I think he stretches his argument a bit too far as he does not seem to acknowledge...
View ArticleThe illusiveness of fairness
Fairness is a concept which is used often to justify a point of view when discussing the distribution of goods or benefits – “it should be done fairly”. But what does this mean, what is fair and what...
View ArticleThe end of magic?
I have recently purchased a facsimile copy of Reginald Scott’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft (originally published in 1584). This is an important book in the history of Western civilisation as it is the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Pi
Smoking sheesha in Luxor, Egypt My idea of having a great time: smoking sheesha in Egypt, wearing my favourite T-shirt (ThinkGeek.com). The print on the shirt consists of the first 4,493 digits of the...
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