The Philosophical Muser

I haven’t read anything by the Christian philosopher and theologian Richard Swinburne, but I know he posited a famous defence for the Trinit...

In a recent article , I defined a miracle as an event that requires action from God because it defies the natural laws or scientific explana...

  Concerning romantic relationships, I would say there are only four types of relationship problems, which I presented as taxonomic categori...

  Richard Carrier is at it again - this time abusing probability theory to use Aristotle’s existence in order to undermine Jesus’ existence....

  Many dodgy belief systems are based on accepting propositions that are so obviously not true or factual, it really is remarkable to me how...

  Imagine if you were a child of the 1970s or 80s in Britain, and you went into a coma, and then awoke in 2025. I’m sure lots would startle ...

  I often lament how large the state has become in the UK, in terms of public services sub-optimally performing because they have become too...

  Let’s define a miracle as an event that requires action from God because it defies the natural laws or scientific explanation within His c...

  I was talking with a friend the other night over a few drinks, and Wordsworth came up. Especially this: There was a time when meadow, gr...

  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...