The Philosophical Muser

Using Philosophical and Economic analysis to consider big questions, world issues and matters of everyday life!

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Courageously Seek Inside For The Truth

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  A combination of psychological literature and an honest appraisal of our inner self make it pretty clear that we don’t easily think things...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Non-Random Thoughts On Creativity And Untapped Success

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  Most of the greatest artistic achievements in life - songwriting, non-fiction prose, poetry, painting, design - succeed not by producing g...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Why The Poor Should Be Thankful To The Rich

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  If you’ve been paying attention in the past 150 years, you’ll know that as a ratio of total beliefs to correct ones, the left gets most th...
Monday, 17 November 2025

Cosmic Open-Endedness

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  When we consider mathematical patterns describing our cosmos, it is worth exploring the question; is the cosmos mathematically open-ended ...
Wednesday, 12 November 2025

How We Made a Nation Too Fragile to Cope

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  You’ve probably noticed it’s hard to state tough and unpleasant truths without sounding unsympathetic; but that is quite strange when you ...
Monday, 10 November 2025

Everything At Once

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  During the only slow bit in the Thursford Christmas show (the raffle, for those like us, who didn’t have tickets) I was thinking about how...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Why God Likes Science & Capitalism

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Suppose you're sent off to another universe in a super cosmos-travel machine and you land on the first planet you find with evolved li...
Monday, 3 November 2025

Sleight of Hand Environmentalism Problem

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  When it comes to spending money, there are things we spend our own money on directly that we can manage well ourselves (clothes, wine, hol...
Sunday, 2 November 2025

What’s The Future Of The Church Of England?

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  With the way it’s been going recently, with their continued descent into wokeness, moral relativism and leftish identarian politics, I hon...
Thursday, 30 October 2025

A Good Use Of Energy

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There’s a lot of confusion in green thinking about how energy use really works - both from greens who don’t adequately grasp the relationshi...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Beware of Honest, Well-Intentioned Politicians

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  I don’t know if politicians are generally more honest, well-meaning and good-intentioned than in the past. I’d guess, in some ways, yes, i...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

On Not Picking Sides

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  Yesterday’s blog post was about how easy it is to pick the right side (when there are valid sides one ought to pick, that is, based on em...
Monday, 27 October 2025

Picking Sides

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People love to pick sides. What's astonishing is how often they choose not just the wrong side - but the one that's completely oppos...
Friday, 24 October 2025

On Defining Genius

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My wife and I are watching Celebrity Traitors, and we’re frequently amused by how often the other participants refer to Stephen Fry as a ‘ge...
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Normal Distributions Normally Aren't Normal

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  I saw an interesting complaint about distributions in GCSE results, and then a second article, posing the loaded question “Why do some sub...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Instruments of Love

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  I like how Bishop Barron uses the term "instrument of love" to describe a person who has been transformed by God's grace, an...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Sexual Equality = More Domestic Violence?

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I saw on Tyler Cowen's blog that he was a little perplexed by the fact that the Nordic countries are supposed to be the most sex-equal ...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

Writer's Update: The Challenge To Be An Important Writer

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  Bound up in one's endeavours to succeed in a particular craft - in my case hoping to be a published Christian author - are several tri...
Friday, 17 October 2025

An Interesting But Flawed Idea About Free Will

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  Many popular formulations of propositions about free will don’t strike me as being very compelling, often because they rest on either cate...
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This is the Blog of James Knight - a keen philosophical commentator on many subjects. My primary areas of interest are: philosophy, economics, theology, politics, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, psychology, history, the arts and social commentary. I also contribute articles to the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economics Affairs. Hope you enjoy this blog! Always happy to hear from old friends and new! Email:j.knight423@btinternet.com
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