When Elizabeth II died I thought: She wasn’t a bad old bird–these very words went through my mind. I remember singing God Save The Queen to her at Saturday morning pictures (movies for kids) back in the 1950s when I was 8 or 9. I am no royalist but at least she gave people something […]
There is a new interview with me on Youtube with Dylan Aames. It has its moments.
Mysteries of Physics I just read We Have No Idea by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson, a book about all the things we don’t know about the physical universe. These include: dark matter, dark energy, the basic elements of matter, the nature of mass, why gravity is so different from other forces, the nature of […]
Eloise She was just a bright young thing Not yet fully grown But she caught my eye across the room She cleverly made herself known So I took her home with me And introduced her to her new friends It was tense at first But soon they were happy as larks Oh […]
I Know a Girl I know a girl likes to dance and sing This girl is up for most anything I took her dancing on a Saturday night And wouldn’t you know I got into a fight Too many guys just hanging round She got her red dress on her feet don’t […]
Earth Song Earth is that your voice I hear? Are you whispering to me? Do I feel your soul in mine? Is your mind in my mind? I sense your wide expanse Your molten heart Your halo of air Your oceans, mountains and life You sing to me of ancient times […]
Hazy Babies I was driving alone along route 95 Lights were flashing and I started to dive I told you I loved you and you said you loved me And the hazy babies were nausea clothed Oh-oh-oh don’t go-oh-oh Don’t go oh please don’t go! I was reading a book that made […]
Song I have just stopped taking voice lessons with my esteemed teacher Nicole, after two and a half years. She took me from lamentable singer to not-too-bad performer, even if I say so myself. After a year of intense coaching and practice I achieved my goals, rather to my surprise. We then formed a […]
No More Philosophy Readers may have noticed a cessation in the philosophical essays I have been posting on this blog. The reason for this is that I have nothing further to say. For the past several years I have been writing down my philosophical thoughts and publishing them here. I never intended to do […]
Knowledge and Belief The traditional analysis of knowledge as true justified belief encourages the following picture (though it doesn’t strictly entail it): there is a common psychological element to knowledge and non-knowledge, which we can call “belief”, and knowledge is the result of supplementing this element with further conditions that together add […]