Existential
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Unfair things and life’s paradoxes
One person with a stereo can ruin a peaceful evening in many nearby gardens, but one person at peace in the quiet of their garden cannot spoil the evening of anyone else. It is relatively easy to appeal to somebody when they are inconveniencing in other ways, and likely that people normally know that they Continue reading
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What to say today?
Often I have no idea what I am going to write, I just sit down and a rant falls out of my fingers. Let’s face it, that’s what my post are usually about, something that’s been weighing on my mind, something that irks me. Today though I watched an episode of Luther (UK Tv Drama, Continue reading
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Misogyny in the forces
Misogyny, as a result of genetic imbalance, is not misogyny. It is not possible that evolution, making one species and the genders it contains differently structured for differing advantages, could contain a will for the traits that worked out to be most useful to be lesser in one than the other since evolution has no Continue reading
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War Volunteerism
(written at the very start of the conflict, but not posted) Uk civilians on the radio phone-in shows talking about going to Ukraine to participate. I think they mean well for sure but without previous experience and training may be volunteering to become a casualty, a logistical burden, and possibly a threat to the very Continue reading
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I’m not me, I’m what I have decided to be…… or am I?
After what started out as a quite jovial conversation this week I have decide that I am no longer a Caucasian man of average build, of European decent, and around the 6ft tall mark, I am instead a 7ft man named Leeroy, I am of African decent and I’m hung like a horse (you don’t Continue reading
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Artificial Flaws
I wanted to write of AI, but I’m unable. I heard Michael Sandel on the radio last week, and, in his usual socratic (we never know what he himself thinks) style, he was asking people what they thought about algorithms deciding things like scoring student papers. I often think, the contestants we’ll call them, participants Continue reading
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Is misery necessary?
“Marry well and you will be a happy man, marry poorly and you will become a philosopher” I can’t remember who said this, I do now think it may be true though. I read and wrote philosophy when I was married, I studied economics and politics too, and I felt very strongly about all three Continue reading
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Nozick, refuting hedonism
I’m not going to explain what hedonism is, or its varying forks, save to say that it is the position of seeing pleasure/lack of pain as the best goal. In this essay I intend to examine Nozick’s attempt to refute hedonism as a rational position. I will set out with an assumption that hedonism is Continue reading
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Locke on the ‘Person’
Locke’s work is important, for me it is useful though flawed but the project he undertook has been reformulated by other philosophers to be a more complete account. Locke saw PERSON as, importantly, a separable substance to MAN. I will attempt to understand his theory and why it is necessary, look at the accounts of Continue reading
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Functionalism, a good account of pain?
I will be looking at the specific reaction of the mind to the condition of pain from the point of view that the mind is a functional device or machine that processes pain as possibly more than just the predictable end product of stimulus. I should start by stating that although it is pleasant to Continue reading
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