In the high mountainous knot of the Pamirs in South Central Asia, in the Badakhshan region of north eastern Afghanistan, there is a small cave on the side of the hill. On approaching closer, one might hear the clink-clink of rock striking rock; one might see that the inside of the cave is lit with … Continue reading The Deep History of Civilisation: the blue emerald of the Indus
We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories. Not so, you… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/75/story/our-brains-tell-stories-so-we-can-live
When you examine the lives of history’s most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/46/balance/darwin-was-a-slacker-and-you-should-be-too
The Enlightenment’s French and Scottish roots are well-known, but Reinert points to the important role played by a group of Italian thinkers. — Read on http://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-04-16/academy-fisticuffs-political-economy-and-commercial-society
van Inwagen thinks we can bypass these issues because the real threat to our free will is not causal determination (our acts having deterministic causes) but simply determination (our acts being necessitated by past events and the natural laws), since this is enough to guarantee that we cannot ever do otherwise. I think this is … Continue reading An Actual Sequence View of Freedom – 3:16
One right-wing bookshop is trying to normalize white supremacist anger. The Anglophone bookshop next door is having none of it. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/two-parisian-bookstores-side-by-side-are-waging-a-culture-war/2019/06/13/d234c051-a5f2-48f1-bd11-48f6bbe71677_story.html
