The Philosophical Muser

I just got around to watching the Nigel Farage vs. Nick Clegg debate on Europe . It was a bit like watching a herbivore and a carnivore ...

In Rosemary Hollis's article* in The Guardian yesterday we saw a quintessential example of all those people in the UK who, when spe...

 As expected, with the tension in Crimea and the rather impotent threat of economic sanctions, some people on the left have used the oppo...

As I've explained before on this Blog, the notion of linking a CEO's pay to a company's market value is not a very reliable m...

An interesting turn up this week after the further developments in the big bang theory (not the sitcom), the Daily Mail's Ephraim Hard...

You may have heard of a tax called the Robin Hood Tax - it's been getting a lot of attention recently. The website I linked starts...

I hold the view that being generous is good, but equally that it is nigh-on impossible to be generous without also conferring a benefit t...

In Plato’s famous dialogue we are given the classic philosophical conundrum called Euthyphro’s dilemma: Are things good because God comma...

When people in poorer countries can't trade freely, they suffer. One of the biggest barriers to free trading for poorer people (like ma...

I'm pretty well read when it comes to the works of George Orwell. Here, though, is a quote from Orwell that I hadn't come across b...

A thought occurred to me today regarding an inconsistency in the judicial system - one that you may not have noticed. Prior to being call...

You may have noticed there has been a lot of indignation over the notion of bankers' bonuses - particularly since the financial crisi...

There are perhaps 3 main rewards for writers: 1) The personal enrichment that comes from forming your ideas and writing about them.  ...