The aim of this post is to explain, in hopefully intelligible terms, and by making reference to some of the central texts, what postmodernism is. I hope thereby to dispel two ideas that are found commonly

According to the odds offered on British website betfair.com this morning there's a 7% chance that Trump won't be president at the end of the year. I think there's about a 15% chance that he won't be,

(originally published on medium, presupposing an audience who doesn't know what blockchains are and doesn't like them) It’s easy to criticize cryptocurrency. Fun, too. As to easy: it’s environmentally

If anything at all comes to your mind when you think of analytic philosophy, it’s probably not the word ‘beauty’. Yet analytic philosophy has its own kind of beauty, akin to the beauty one finds in some

I know, the title sounds a bit kooky. But the argument I'm going to put forward is serious, building on work done by David Lewis, perhaps the most influential philosopher of the latter half of the twentieth

Hi all, I thought I would both introduce myself and a project I've been working on that I think may be of interest to the steemit community. I am a Northern Irish writer and editor interested in blockchain