I like to drop into the excellent Riverside Bookshop on Tooley Street, London SE1 (late of Hays Galleria). It has a good selection and ded...

“And hereof came it that Fryer Bakon was accompted so greate a negromancier, whiche never used that arte (by any coniecture that I can fynd...

In August 2013, Richard Dawkins elicited one of his periodic bouts of controversy by tweeting that Trinity College, Cambridge had produced ...

On 15 June 763BC, a near total eclipse of the sun was visible over a swathe of the Near East.  As luck would have it, the event was noted i...

In this age of public cynicism, few professions remain in high public esteem. No one ever liked journalists, politicians or estate agents. ...

Six seismologists were finally acquitted last month after they made rash comments before Aquila earthquake of 2009.   They were victims of...

I'm looking for an introduction to philosophy text that meets the following criteria: 1. It's arranged topically, not historically...

“Are mystical experiences real?” asks Joe Hinman in his new book, The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief . It should not be too mu...

Ed Feser had an online debate with Keith Parsons . Considering that they had had some minor hostility issues with each other previously, it...

With Russia's sort-of invasion of Ukraine (some say it is definitely an invasion, some say it isn't), pundits on the political right...