The Philosophical Muser

  The economist Bryan Caplan popularised the idea of rational irrationality, based on two types of rationality; epistemic rationality and in...

  When it comes to miracles, an open-minded agnostic has two sets of propositions to consider. Here is the first set: P1: If an event is...

  I n 1963, a psychologist called Bob Rosenthal conducted an experiment in which his assistants placed rats in mazes, and then timed how lo...

  Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for young earth creationists is the fact that St. Paul refers to Adam by name - so their reasoning goe...

  Excluding miraculous events that occur in the Bible, which are never claimed to be amenable to scientific examination, the following holds...

  I was intrigued to stumble upon this old piece of mine from 2002, from a folder I hadn’t opened in a very long time. I don’t recall much a...

One of my little ‘work in progress’ side projects is an epistolary called Letters To Troubled Youth. It’s a mix of good cop, bad cop letter ...

Our intellectual pursuits play out a bit like a series of game theory transactions - much like the hawk-dove game, which refers to a scenari...

  George Orwell's Politics and the English Language is one of the best essays ever written on how the distortion and abuse of language ...

The only people who go on about religious faith more than believers are the unbelievers who seem utterly obsessed with convincing everyone e...

One of the preposterous things about the anti-capitalist brigade is that, whatever form of leftism is being espoused, they still get to enjo...

I have a lot of respect and admiration for vegans. In fact, if you oppose the meat industry on ethical grounds, then as far as I can see, yo...

If my book The Genius of the Invisible God ever gets published, and if you ever acquire a copy, you’ll come across a section about what I c...

I’ve been observing the Christian dating scene, and one thing led to another blog post about the dating market in general. Our long evolutio...

Today marks a year since my dear dad passed away. They always talk of the deep tragedy of a parent losing their child - and that is, of cour...

The two main divisions in the world are to do with perceived ideas and perceived characters. Most of the issues people debate are battles of...