The previous instalment of this blog (No. 78) looked at the implications of today’s muddled world which has tried to “get by” with an attitude which actively avoids a great deal of “theory” and has virtually abandoned philosophy. It also showed how Descartes established the activity of modern philosophy… as […]

The previous instalment of this blog  (No. 77) showed how serious the collapse of philosophy has been… how a formerly much valued, challenging element in rational thinking has gone AWOL.  Frank Furedi wrote a book which asked this question: <<Where have all the PHILOSOPHERs gone?>> The intellectual subset of the […]

Today the state of philosophy in the intellectual discussionsphere is in decline in both width and weight… and quite pathetic in quality. Where have the “Big Beasts” of philosophy gone? There seem to be no successors with the reputation, discipline or standing which were achieved by Wittgenstein, Ayer, Popper or […]

The Exceptionally Deep Dilemma which faces humankind today is that adulation about mathematic modes and values (a quest to establish a math-topia of regimentation) is becoming more and more oppressive, but the number of people qualified and minded to criticise this oppresive creeping Holy Grail is almost nil. So we […]

The dilemma we face in philosophy today is that there are all sorts of contradictions arising from juxta-positions of individually well established concepts. The need to focus strongly (convergently) onto specifics —which are necessary to sustain the necessary digital mode of information— has left us with a multitude of mis-matches […]

I have recently received the current copy of Philosophy, but its “philosophy”  leaves much to be desired.  The articles in the journal take-on questions concerning whether A or B is “better”, where A and B are rather vaguely generalised aspirations. There is absolutely no suggestion that the answers (whatever they […]

What has gone wrong? What has gone wrong with the human race… that has landed us in a situation where WW3 might break-out at any moment, massacres are constantly happening around the world, in the Middle East , Ukraine and Sudan —-and the world’s leading democracy (the USA) is in […]

Prof. Daniele Moyal-Sharrock has published an article in the current issue (24,70,2025) of the journal Think in which she turns back to revisit Ludwig Wittgenstein’s historic contribution to philosophy. This is to be praised, but her pessimistic take on Wittgenstein’s philosophy  —which she tries to defend— can also be construed […]

Sir James Jeans postulated in the 1930s that <<God was a mathematician!>>.  A more commonly held view of the same general kind is that <<Physical reality is ultimately  mathematical!>>. Among ordinary intelligent people though such comments are now —nearly a hundred years later— less widely heard. But within the physics […]

‘Philosophy’ is the historic name for the widest mode of seriously practised rational discourse about the nature of the physical world, the meaning of mathematics, the conditions for tolerable social wellbeing, and comfortable relationships between people (ethics). But today all these discourses are wilting badly, even visibly disintegrating, because of […]