In the previous essay in this series, I made some fairly banal comments about abstractions from something like a nominalist point of view...

What could this possibly be? There's an old story from India that seems to crop up everywhere. In Buddhist literature it is found...

This post is a précis and review of: Mercier, Hugo & Sperber, Dan. 'Why Do Humans Reason. Arguments for an Argumentative Theo...

I'm often frustrated by simplistic worldviews, especially when I fall into one myself. A couple of years back I wrote a response to t...

"Whatever complex biological and neural processes go on backstage, it is my consciousness that provides the theatre where my experien...