Out of sight of land: Sunday August 8, 2010
Does travel broaden the mind?
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Buddhist? Buddhish? Non-Buddhist?: Monday July 26, 2010
I’m almost five years old!
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On the dangers of being too philosophical...: Sunday May 9, 2010
On the closure of Middlesex philosophy department.
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Ethical Friskiness: Monday March 1, 2010
When ethical philosophy meets caffeine…
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A Viable Way: Friday January 15, 2010
Wisdom from the bestselling book “How to Marry a Western Woman”…
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Ethics is like navigation... stories are like the sea.: Friday November 27, 2009
Thoughts on storytelling and ethics.
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Sidling up to Things: Monday November 2, 2009
Thinking about obliqueness…
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Without authority...: Tuesday August 25, 2009
Blogs, mainstream media and the idea of authority.
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No One Wins?: Friday July 10, 2009
Philosophical discussion, and those monsters lurking underneath our chairs.
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Clamour, and the Love of the World: Monday June 22, 2009
Religion, science and the clamour of the world.
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A Problem with Bandwidth: Friday February 20, 2009
A few late-night thoughts on consciousness
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Blogging Philosophy Part II: Hanging Out with the Peasants: Friday January 30, 2009
Blogging, the Gutenberg parenthesis, and how to establish the colour of a bear.
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Blogging Philosophy Part I: Amateurs: Tuesday January 27, 2009
The paradox of the professional philosopher.
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Fluidity and Thought: Tuesday January 6, 2009
The snagging of thoughts
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The Fine Grain: Thursday December 18, 2008
A few thoughts on attention, judgement and the fine grain of things…
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Slippery truths: Wednesday December 10, 2008
Toughts on Mark Siderits’s Empty Persons.
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The Sciences, the Humanities and the Human Imagination: Tuesday September 23, 2008
Thoughts on consilience and the unity of knowledge.
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On Gods and Nations: Friday August 22, 2008
Thoughts on A.C. Grayling and David Miliband.
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Without Illumination: Thursday April 24, 2008
The fog of philosophy
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Kindness and Philosophy: Monday March 10, 2008
Where are our philosophies of kindness?
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Vain, Deluded, Pigheaded, Secretive, Bigoted...: Thursday February 14, 2008
That’s the trouble with the mind – it has a mind of it’s own.
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Philosophy and Practice: Saturday January 26, 2008
Stoicism, Foucault and philosophy as a practical pursuit.
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Studying Happiness: Thursday January 10, 2008
The metta bhavana, and meditation on happiness.
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Clarity and Confusion: Wednesday December 12, 2007
Analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and mollusc-based diets.
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Stumped by Consciousness: Tuesday November 13, 2007
I admit it: I’m utterly flummoxed!
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Human things with human voice...: Saturday November 10, 2007
Wallace Stevens, Martha Nussbaum and philosophy.
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Thinking Out Loud: Wednesday August 1, 2007
Blogging as a practice.
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O, Unhappy Philosopher!: Friday July 6, 2007
Why so glum, you philosophers?
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Ouch!: Wednesday June 13, 2007
Reflections upon pain.
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The Problem of Life: Friday December 1, 2006
Solving and dissolving the problems of life.
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Dennett's Modest Proposal: Tuesday November 14, 2006
Dan Dennett, religion and science.
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Nothing but...?: Sunday October 22, 2006
The world is enough…
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The Meaning of the Meaning of Life: Saturday October 14, 2006
Life has no meaning; but that doesn’t mean it is meaningless…
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East is East and West is West: Monday August 7, 2006
Thinking between Levinas and Shantideva, East and West.
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Western Buddhism and Other Capitalist Avatars: Saturday April 8, 2006
Žižek and Western Buddhism.
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The Twilight of Atheism or the End of Faith?: Monday March 6, 2006
Are we witnessing the end of faith… or the twilight of atheism?
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Buddhism and Philosophy Part IV - Practices of Attention: Friday December 30, 2005
Philosophy, language and the practice of attention.
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Buddhism and Philosophy Part III - Practices of Wisdom and Love: Friday December 16, 2005
Philosophy: the love of wisdom… or the wisdom of love???
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Buddhism and Philosophy Part II - Practices of Freedom: Tuesday December 6, 2005
Philosophy and Buddhism as practices of freedom.
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Buddhism and Philosophy Part I: Friday December 2, 2005
What has philosophy got to do with Buddhism? Practice, that is what!
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Zen and Philosophy: Book Review: Friday July 29, 2005
A review of Michiko Yusa’s impressive book on the life of Nishida Kitaro.
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