PFRR POSTS
31/01/2020
THOUGHT: Part 3 led to a surprising conclusion, namely that the ultimate constituents of physical reality must be absolutely random. If their behaviour still possessed vestiges of pattern, they would cry out for further scientific explanation. If so, they would not count as the “ultimate constituents” of physical reality. There […]
02/01/2020
THOUGHT: There are currently signs of a sickening and widespread loss of confidence in the efficacy of reasoning. It seems to be being felt simultaneously in many countries. It is quite alarming, because history shows that trying to maintain civilised standards is difficult enough with the help of reason: trying […]
02/12/2019
THOUGHT: We need to turn 2020 into the 20-20 Vision Year, to reverse the tacit, potentially suicidal, switch away from thinking and reasoning which occurred in the 20th century and which has left us facing seven+ existential crises. In this instalment we look both at the crises and the Kernels […]
28/10/2019
THOUGHT: The World has recently descended into a fragile state. ‘The World’ here means the human world, the procedures, institutions, methods, customs, civilities etc. which allow seven billion of us to “get along together”, after a fashion, on this planet. There are also seven existential crises facing us, that is, […]
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 […]