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Bosphorous Reflections has a post on Pascal, Hume, and gambling : Gambling, anxiety about reality, and the wish to find a way of contolling ...

The Garden Softly do we fall asleep in Eden where the angels keep the garden with their swords of fire; while praying by the olive tree we f...

Donald Kennedy fails to get it quite right, I think, in his editorial in Science on the U.S. presidential election ( ht ): But we share a r...

* Bleg: If anyone has recently read anything, or come across any sources, relevant to understanding the thought (philosophical or theologica...

A post at "Mind Hacks" on the banality of evil : The phrase the 'banality of evil' was coined by philosopher Hannah Arendt...

I have noted previously that propositional logic can be seen as a special case of categorical syllogistics. That many non-categorical propos...

Alexander Pruss has a post on the question of the duties of soldiers in a case of unjust war. He argues that the common view, "that the...