The Philosophical Muser

Here's a rather misleading headline doing the rounds today: While the issues are serious, that’s exactly the kind of irresponsible ...

In the midst of the Oscar Pistorius trial there has been some debate about whether live TV trials are a good thing or not. I suspect it’s...

Aaagh…. Labour MP Harriet Harman on BBC1's Question Time two nights ago said her party wants more people to go to university, and sh...

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...