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Is Everything Made of Water?
Excuse the bizarre title and bear with me; it’ll make sense in a minute. This is my first Friday Philosophy post, and each week I’m going to be looking at a key idea from a renowned philosopher. We’ll start back in 620BC, which was the approximate birth date of Thales of Miletus, an ancient Greek Continue reading
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Sam Harris and Free Will
Over the last few years, Sam Harris has received a great deal of recognition among atheists, who see him as an important figure championing science as pitted against religion when it comes to the subject of morality. I spent many hours watching Harris speaking and debating in various YouTube videos a few years back, and Continue reading
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Hearing Voices or Hearing God?
Have you ever heard a Christian say, “God placed it on my heart” to do such and such? Let’s take a brief look at what a statement like this might mean, and what it says about the relationship between God and human beings. Continue reading
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‘A Little History of Philosophy’ by Nigel Warburton (book review)
Nigel Warburton has been a lecturer at both the University of Nottingham and the Open University, but in 2013 he decided to resign his position at the Open University and go freelance as a writer and philosophy teacher. As far as I can gather from his tweets, Warburton is now running introductory philosophy courses in Continue reading
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The Church of the Future
With the recent discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle at CERN in Switzerland, I believe it is only a matter of time before further discoveries in physics allow us to create new technologies that will revolutionise space travel, allowing us to journey much deeper into space than ever before. With such a vast universe existing Continue reading
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‘Descartes’ Error’ by Antonio Domasio (book review)
Descartes’ Error was recommended to me by my psychotherapist. In my psychotherapy sessions in recent weeks there has been a lot of discussion about body systems (e.g. the autonomic nervous system; the limbic system), and feeling that I don’t really have a grasp of the more complex language that relates to the biological and neurological Continue reading
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