The Philosophical Muser

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

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

  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...

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

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

  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...

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...

  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...

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

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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

  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...

  Many popular formulations of propositions about free will don’t strike me as being very compelling, often because they rest on either cate...