Barack Obama has apparently described Life of Pi as “an elegant proof of God”. But in the opinion of this agnostic – a position vilified (inexpertly) in the novel – if it is such a proof, it is in the least interesting of ways.

An account of the concept as the mitigation of unconscious metaphysical anxiety

My death cannot be an event in the world because my death will be the end of the world

Our approach to foreign undergarments of the nether regions belies the nature of the world each of us lives in

As Thomas Nagel says in ‘The View from Nowhere’, “the basic problem of epistemology is not whether we can be said to know things, but lies rather in the loss of belief and the invasion of doubt”

Thoughts on the possibility of knowledge

On my complicity with the spirit of the age

On the absurd

On the objectivity of subjectivity

The term ‘folk psychology’ refers to the habit human beings have of employing terms such as ‘belief’, ‘desire’, ‘want’, and similar, to explain action. For example, I may say of myself that I am undertaking a masters in philosophy as I believe it will bring me greater understanding or (perhaps foolishly) improve my career prospects, [...]