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The Sciences and Philosophy by JS Haldane is a physically lovely book; the paper - linen-type, perhaps - and the red cloth binding are super...

The headline seems bleedin' obvious really. But the Graun is excited by it :  Fabian Dablander, the lead author, said the belief that t...

To Belgium, to G(h)ent and surrounds, to see the wonders thereof. This is by Bruegel the Elder, not Bosch, wiki will tell you all about...

This is a bad book: one-sided, not honest, more akin to propaganda than philosophy... unless you're familiar with The Republic, of cour...

The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce: Goodreads ; his website . This is only a partial review, as I DNF'd in chapter 2 because......

By Andrea Marinoni et al. . Coming to you and me via X . And of course, I begin by apologising for the intrusion of climate into this war-f...

Last used in 2018 , good grief, that was a while ago. But like then, I'm back from the alps, keen and eager to leap back into the fray,...

My attempts to wait for the end of the little tiff between the MM and the MMs 1 has failed: here am I . My graph shows one measure of the...

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. First published in 1973, this is a radi...

This was going to be a post about the end of the MM-MMs war, but that doesn't seem to be quite over yet , so instead it is about the ho...

Another year, another Mays. They flow past like water. 2025 ; 2024 ; 2023 ... With Inigo and the bucket gone I'm not really sure what i...

I'm just back from a trip down to the Chamonix valley for some low level alpine type fun, but being now a retired gentleman of leisure,...

I don't have a lot to say about this but want to record reading it. See some  Goodreads  reviews for things I might have said, if my m...

Dead famous , but also dead boring 2 . The surface veneer is tolerable: La Atwood has clearly been to writer's school and learnt how to...

There Is No Progress in Philosophy will be an idea familiar to us all; my particular text is taken from an article published in 2011 but br...

It is always charming to be the bearer of good news, so I am pleased to reveal to you that  Donald Trump is the war’s biggest loser , in th...

The Case Against Education   is a book written by libertarian economist Bryan Caplan and published in 2018 by Princeton University Press. Dr...