February 2006
'The great divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
by mikepowerCinema, literature and other aspects of western culture are increasingly open to Asian influence. Not so western philosophy
January 2006
Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief - The renowned evolutionary biologist tells John Crace why he finds the resurgence of religion so annoying
by mikepowerEven secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There's no such thing. Children aren't born with a particular religious gene. What they are is children of Jewish, Catholic and Muslim parents. If you started to talk about monetarist or Ma
January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 17 othersThe books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
Science is where the intellectual story is
by mikepowerWhat has happened in the past couple of decades has been that scientists have increasingly bypassed the rather supercilious arts intellectuals and seized the intellectual initiative and the intellectual high ground for themselves.
November 2004
Are You A Comfort Addict?
by mikepower & 1 other Do you find yourself unsatisfied, but unable to work out why? Is everything okay, but nothing great? You could well be a comfort addict.
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