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Longer essays -
Falsification - the foundation of good science
The basis for an
irreligious morality
Freewill - an
unnecessary hypothesis
Changing
morality - October 2016
The existence
of God
God and suffering
The Human Condition
Reparations
for racial oppression?
Ritual
Democracy
- Why?
Ideology
- how to run a Country,,,
Honesty, wallets and humanism
Conspiracy
theories: Part I - why do people believe in
them?
Conspiracy theories: Part II - the
lingering influence of fake news
Prejudice
- good or bad?
- Beliefs
or just working assumptions?
- Inertia
- conservative and liberal thought
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- The inertia
of belief
Decision
making in the long-term
Decisions,
decisions
My letters published in Philosophy Now:
Issue 99 - Absolute & relative
morality
Issue 100 - Freedom & randomness
Issue 104 - Consequentialism
Issue 110 - Atheism and the argument
from evil
Issue 111 - Is & ought - the
source of morality
Issue 113 - Freewill & Ebenezer
Scrooge
Issue 113 - Chimps & habeas
corpus
Issue 114 - Freewill is a
theological problem
Issue 119 - Human Rights
Issue 120 - Episodic memory
Issue
123 - Panpsychism - a critique
Issue
125 - Freedom of will
Issue
127 - Physicalism
Issue 137 -
The basis for human rights
Issue 138
- The Covid 19 virus and panpsychism
Issue
140 - Humanism and morality
Issue
163 - Meaning of Life
Issue
165 - Human Intelligence – is this as good as
it gets?
Morality (non-religious) -
Praise
and blame in the absence of freewill
Morality for unbelievers
Philanthropy
by the rich and famous
Living
with the consequences
Self-driving
cars and the imposition of a world-wide moral
code
Violence and the good old
days
- Altruism,
fairness and the law
Fairness amongst
Capucin monkeys
Little
Brown Monkeys revisited
Morality
and Oxytocin
- Slippery Slope
argument and assisted dying
- Democracy
and Religion - according to the Pope
- Animal rights?
- Self-driving
cars and the Trolley problem
- General
topics -
An excess of Human Rights?
The difficulty with Constitutions
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Self-consciousness
- the weird world of 'panpsychism'
Purpose
in the Universe - the even weirder world of
'cosmopsychism'
- "Death
of the author" by Roland Barthes - a critical
assessment
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- Blessed are the
Rich
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- Rights and Obligations
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- Why is there
so little interest in philosophy?
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- Language
and thought
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- A twig or a
branch? Do our thoughts need words in
order to exist?
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- Reality
The
reinvention of philosophy
God, freewill and morality -
Religion
in its widest sense
Free-will,
morality, long-term decision making and the law
- God and suffering
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- Is versus Ought (2015)
Is and
Ought - original version of letter to
Philosophy Now, published Dec 2015 -
Issue 111
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