"Is Seeing Believing?"
Is our own experience the final and only arbiter for what we can accept as true?
Can Reading the Papers Make You Go Blind?
A newspaper front page is, in essence, a religious object. Of course that isn't what we think we're buying. But it's what we get. Not with…
"Isn't truth a matter of preference?"
Preference or truth? Is there a difference?
Assumptions Behind Derrida's Theory of Deconstruction
Derrida lays many of his presuppositions out in a hard but very important essay called 'Structure, Sign and Play' in the Discourse of the…
Knowledge and Intuition
In the 19th century novel Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy listed intuition as the first evidence for the logician. Learn how to…
Rationality: a critical review
An in-depth look at cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's book Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, Why it Matters
Searching for certainty in an uncertain world
This short book explores whether we can be confident in the truth in our post-truth age.
I Know Christianity is True but I Can't Believe it
Rudiger Sumann talks on the subject of 'I Know Christianity is True but I Can't Believe It'.
Having Some Faith in the Grey Matter
A review of Ian McEwan's Saturday.