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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 - why do we act as we do?
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
Morality (non-religious) -
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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