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31/07/2022
The theme of the author’s six essays in The New English Review (NER) on-line journal has been the De-mystification of Mathematics, a project which Ludwig Wittengstein tried to accomplish, but on which he was unable to make much progress. Now two posts have appeared in The New English Review respectively […]
30/06/2022
How can we alert the alertable few of today’s young people that reason and light in human affairs will disappear unless we take a determined stand to support it and bring it back? Whether we like it or not, the global human community is hurtling towards a contentious, chaotic, painful […]
31/05/2022
How can philosophy gain any significant traction in a post-modern world? It all depends on what we mean by ‘philosophy’. Many philosophers nowadays argue that the problems of philosophy have no solution. In which case they are better classified as ‘pseudo problems’ —conceptual muddles which look at first like genuine […]
02/05/2022
Renewal through Philosophy No. 31 – The Coming Post-Mathematic Age Dramatic recent developments in actimatics were summarised in Blog. No. 30 and they call, by their presence, for a commentary on what it all means. Simultaneously my fifth essay in the online New English Review (May 2022) will serve to […]
01/04/2022
A catch-up on recent progress in Actimatics Since the concept of ACTIMATICS was introduced into these philosophy-renewal blogs two years ago, there has been some quiet progress in developing the new 100% abstract discipline. This instalment offers an outline account of the current situation. In many ways Actimatics might just […]
28/02/2022
The attenuated state of today’s philosophy It is a strange fact that today homo sapiens is passing through a very difficult, dangerous multi-sided existential crisis, while, at the same time, philosophy —homo sapiens’ historic way of probing deeply into conceptual territory to get a broad handle on things— is in […]
01/02/2022
The specialisation obsession in philosophy sits oddly in a world desperately needing generalised vision We are now struggling with two existential crises (The Pandemic and Global Heating) which have probably arisen, in the last analysis, from our neglect of thinking “in the large”. This has arisen from an extraordinary mass […]
04/01/2022
This is the first Blog for the year 2022 and it comes after an anxious few weeks during which the Omicron version of Covid 19 has spread like wildfire. It reminds us there is no escaping the fact that humanity is now moving through Crisis Passage. (It is not only […]
01/12/2021
This is the last Blog for the year 2021 and it raises the question <<How can one convey —within the conventions of measured, serious language— the utmost importance of the conclusions which spring from finding a solution to the hitherto unsolved Central Puzzle of Modern Science?>> This Puzzle is: Whatever […]
01/11/2021
The last blog in this series focused squarely onto the Problem of the Central Puzzle facing modern science, the question which is implicit in the explanatory method of modern science —deconstruction of tiny entities like genes, molecules, atoms, protons… into still tinier entities. The central puzzle is very clear: Whatever […]
01/08/2023
The P E R Group was first muted in 1993, at a philosophical conference at UEA in Norwich. Its emergence can be interpreted in various ways. It grew from a small group of people who had at that time been rooting for more than 20 years for a major reform […]
06/07/2023
We have now passed the date in June in 1993 when the P E R Group was first muted, at a philosophical conference at UEA in Norwich. It was desperately needed because a group of substandard theorists had taken over school systems all over the world and education had —in […]
01/06/2023
The notion —as widely reported— that chatGPT and similar AI bots will have a profound effect on the world’s economy and social stability may be exaggerated. Who will, on reflection, take serious advice from a source that has no “author” … someone who could be berated if the advice goes […]
01/05/2023
There have been some important developments in relation to ChatGPT since the last instalment of this blog. The firm which has developed ChatGPT has admitted that the software is not fully reliable and that it is prone to have “hallucinations”. There are also reports that ChatGPT has discovered that it […]