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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 […]
01/10/2021
We turn now to look at the Problem of the Central Puzzle facing modern science, because this Central Puzzle is currently being shamelessly ignored by the scientific elite. Science begins as the expression of a kind of intense curiosity about the discovery of unexpected pattern in the world. It is […]
01/09/2021
The last instalment of this blog (August 2021) aired the concept that the world needs a return to intense caring as the everyday basis for civilised society. Today there is a shortfall of intense caring in every sector of human activity, and as a result things are beginning to fall […]
02/08/2021
The world is currently going through a bad patch. The Covid-19 pandemic is still raging on, global warming is producing dangerous weather conditions, there are many places where chronic warfare has reduced the built environment —and any semblance of ‘civilisation’— to rubble, the drought of fresh political ideas continues, and […]
02/07/2021
The last instalment of this blog (June 2021) aired the continuing significance of using mathematical modelling to illuminate the way ahead. It stated the self-evident case for this reason-based way of pathfinding the future, and hence of adding to the commongood. But much of the latest news remains dismal, and […]
02/06/2021
The last instalment of this blog (May 2021) aired two brilliant new insights about the possibilities of modelling which have risen to the surface during the pandemic. To say these developments are “hopeful”, is a considerable understatement. (They are the Peircean Interpretation of Mathematics and Actimatics.) When taken in, and […]
01/09/2023
Why is philosophy labouring in the doldrums in academia and coming over as a sketchy diversified patchwork in the few places where it is still alive outside academia? Why has intellectual confidence fallen onto the floor? Why is the outlook for humankind so unremittingly bleak? Whatever has gone so hopelessly […]
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 […]