EU Profiler

This is a neat little tool.  It functions a lot like the political compass, but with regards the parties in the upcoming EU elections.  You can see which UK parties, which German parties (and so forth) you match up closest with.
Unsurprisingly, I come up quite far to the socioeconomic left (just to the right of [...]

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Prepunishment as an argument against Compatibilism

Compatibilism is the position that states that free-will is compatible with determinism. Incompatibilism is the position that states that free-will requires indeterminism. It is hard to give an argument for either compatibilism or incompatibilism that does not beg the question. A good argument for incompatibilism would be to show that the compatibilist is [...]

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Sporting preferences and aptitude for the Presidency

You’d think that there was no connection between one’s sporting preferences and whether you’d make a good President or not.  But Miami philosopher Colin McGinn reckons otherwise.   He claims that because George W. Bush liked jogging and mountain biking “loner sports” whereas Obama likes basketball, we can infer all sorts of things about Bush’s “capacity [...]

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Wow! A substantial post!

I was having a nice little discussion with a libertarian recently, and he made this point.
How’s this for a reductio – imagine Smith is on a plane with 100 disabled people, and the plane crashes on an island. As the only able-bodied survivor, he is the only one who can gather food. Now, if [...]

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New Blog

Cambridge philosophy postgrad James, who used to blog sporadically at Jotunheim, has a new blog here.  It’s well worth a look.
http://towardsafifthestate.wordpress.com/

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