The Philosophical Muser

I’ve been reading a few of the silly scare stories, like this one , that insist we should stop eating meat or else the planet is going to...

In 2011, I wrote a paper on the nature of free will and determinism - dispelling some common myths about the two terms, and hopefully pro...

I've just found a contender for my new favourite teenager. And no, I don’t mean that little madam Greta Thunberg (about whom I’ve bee...

Although it’s all subjective opinion ( or is it? ), most cover versions aren’t a patch on the originals (and that’s even truer when it co...

A reader called Cecil Hughes responded to one of my recent climate change articles, calling into question whether I'm really an earth...

Recently I wrote a paper explaining why I think the politics associated with climate change is both bad economics and bad philosophy. Tha...

Every married couple knows that the most important question of all isn't 'Why is there something rather than nothing? ", or ...

Being 6ft 7, I don’t have much leg room on planes. This was even more apparent on my night flight back from America in 2017, when the pass...