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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Brexit, Boris, and the future of the UK

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As I write this, it's been 3 years since the Brexit referendum, and a week since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister of the UK. It seem...
Friday, 12 July 2019

Why sacredness is not a thing, and its OK to climb Ayers Rock

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Plenty of things are described as sacred: buildings, natural sites, books, objects, maybe even people. I don't profess to be an expert o...
Friday, 5 July 2019

Golf balls, one-word exam responses, and the myths of Philosophy

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Philosophy is my life, and I love it. But not everyone really knows what it is (this includes my immediate family, best friends, and seeming...
Friday, 14 June 2019

"They mustn't have had many good submissions" - impostor syndrome and negative assumptions

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A couple of months go, I sent off an abstract to a CFP for a conference and this week I got an email saying I'd been accepted/invited to...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Is it permissible to abuse MPs whose views we oppose?

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In the past couple of weeks, Nigel Farage has had a milkshake thrown over him ,  David Davies has been called a liar and a traitor , and  Ch...
Sunday, 19 May 2019

Why people encourage suicide online

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Many philosophical issues - and many interactions with others - are not matters of life and death. But some are. Please note that this pos...
Saturday, 11 May 2019

Should sports segregate by sex? If so, how?

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A couple of weeks ago, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against South African athlete Caster Semenya. The findings about her case i...