Conservative Tendency

A friend sent me this link which features a picture of the philosopher Karl Popper clutching his head. The description of the head-clutchin...

What might be the practical implications of the view of the self put forward in some of my recent posts, notably "Nietzsche on the ...

The mark of intelligence is active learning - changing behavior in response to circumstances and past successes and failures. In his remarka...

Martin and Barresi (see my post 'The ghost in the machine') draw attention to Nietzsche's brilliance in seeing so clearly and so...

I was walking the other night along a riverside promenade in the middle of the city of Melbourne, Australia, where street artists, on hands ...

I have been reading The rise and fall of the soul and self: an intellectual history of personal identity by Raymond Martin and John Barresi...

Here is a description of some of Wittgenstein's typical antics (based on an account given by Peter Munz of a famous 1946 seminar and tak...