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Photos of a pair of lakes at the end of a jogging trail
Photos of my apartment showing how much stuff I have
Basic bibliographic details of my books, with links and more
An ultraminiature autobiography, for those who want it short
Photos of a walk in the woods with a group of
Schwetzingen friends
The introductory page for my 2013 book Coral: The Next Twist
Of Fate
Readers' notes page for my little 2012 book Christ: A
Tall
Story
Shaping virtual lives: a proceedings volume that I
co-edited
My résumé,
illustrated and presented as a mini-autobiography
Introductory page for my prospective next book, on Globorg
Introductory page for my philosophical autobiography
Illustrations for my philosophical autobiography,
book 1
Illustrations for my philosophical autobiography,
book 2
Illustrations for my philosophical autobiography,
book 3
Illustrations for my philosophical autobiography,
book 4
Illustrations for my philosophical autobiography,
book 5
List of my main publications since
1991, many with PDF downloads
Certificate of existence issued by the Universe
My recent Amazon book reviews republished in
chronological order
Portrait photos of me at SAP on December 14, 2012
Portrait photos of me at SAP on December 17, 2010
Wise sayings in Arabic and German from Schwetzingen mosque
Introductory page for my book G.O.D. Is Great
Stub for a notes page for my book G.O.D. Is Great
Introductory page for my 2009 Globorg book plan
Photos taken during a pleasant walk in Schwetzingen Schlossgarten
Photos taken during a pleasant walk in the springtime sunshine
A page of photos taken in or near
Schwetzingen Schloßgarten
Introductory page for my draft
book Godblogs
Introductory page for my
philosophy book Mindworlds
Group photo of old Exonians who dined together in Zurich in 2008
Portrait photos of me, 12 from November 2007 and 5 from January 2008
Outline for a speculative book on life,
the universe and everything
Extended review of books by Penrose and
Wolfram published in JCS
Me at Exeter College Oxford in June 28, 2003,
and October 1969
Captain Pom vs the Grumians, text for a fun
cartoon strip I wrote in 1999
Introductory page for my 1996
science-fiction novel Lifeball
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Physics
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Richard Feynman, Nobelist for QED, has a
new viral hit physics video
The European Space Agency makes plans for
Ariane, Orion, the ISS, and Mars
The Square Kilometer Array will let
astronomers map intergalactic hydrogen
The Apollo mission and a Mars mission
push the bounds of human endeavor
Vlatko Vedral thinks thermodynamics can
provide a new theory of everything
Amanda Gefter reflects on cosmic
inflation and the no-boundary proposal
Brian Greene considers inflation, dark energy, strings, and the multiverse
Alan Lightman laments the accidentality of the anthropic string multiverse
Michael Longo thinks the universe might be spinning around the axis of evil
Lee Smolin et alia propose merging spacetime and momenergy in 8-space
Sean Carroll reviews an idea to merge the multiverse with quantum branching
QED pioneer Freeman Dyson on a miscellany of themes
Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, and Jeremy Bernstein on
cosmology
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics and its meaning for cosmology
Breaking Lorentz symmetry at the Planck scale may
give us quantum gravity
The LHC could find not only the Higgs but also evidence for supersymmetry
A biography of Paul Dirac and a new account of the Pauli-Jung correspondence
Two recent experiments confirm that quantum entanglement is real
Tim Palmer uses fractal geometry for phase space to tackle
quantum puzzles
David Albert sees a threat to special relativity from quantum
nonlocality
A new catalyst is discovered for turning sunlight
and water into hydrogen
John Updike, Lee Smolin, George Johnson, and John Derbyshire on Einstein
Do black holes destroy information or not?
Leonard Susskind reports
The Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva
Three physicists show how to reconstruct the
universe from tiny triangles
Marcus de Sautoy on symmetry and the work of
Thompson and Tits
NASA has found a practical way to build large
telescopes on the moon
NASA finds more planets, news of the Kepler and James Webb telescopes
A. Garrett Lisi's "exceptionally simple
theory of everything" based on E8
The International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor
Hugh Everett III and his relative state
theory of quantum mechanics
Itzhak Bars has a new two-dimensional theory
of time
Michael J. Disney's doubts about
contemporary cosmology
Christopher Isham and Andreas Döring
present a topos foundation for physics
My review of a Springer book on the
foundations of quantum mechanics
My reviews of two physics books in the
Springer Frontiers Collection
My brief outline of a textbook by Barton
Zwiebach on string theory
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2013-05-05
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2009-09-12
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2009-04-01
2009-03-10
2008-10-20
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2012-01-07
2011-09-23
2010-08-10
2008-06-12
2008-06-11
2011-09-22
2012-09-15
2013-04-28
2012-08-16
2011-08-08
2010-12-19
2010-06-05
2010-05-17
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2010-05-17
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Other Sciences
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The Weil conjectures were big in mathematics for half a
century
Benoit Mandelbrot made a breakthrough in our
understanding of nature
Wikipedia summarizes EU and US rules on dietary
supplements
Matt Ridley scoffs at chemo, bio, demo, and minero
apocalypses
Nick Bostrom says we almost certainly live in a computer simulation
A new group is consolidating data and analyses on global
warming
Hugh Woodin proved that the continuum hypothesis is true in
ultimate L
Beluga whales are so sensitive that a scientist swam naked
for them
Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini have written an unfortunate book about
evolution
By all accounts the Singularity Summit 2009 in New York was a
big success
Don't laugh: Ray Kurzweil thinks he has a shot at living forever
Economics is not a natural science, says Douglas Rushkoff
Geo-engineering can halt global warming quickly
and cheaply, but with risks
Evolutionary biology is waking up to group,
species, and ecosystem selection
Our understanding of the human genome has
advanced rapidly in recent years
Supercomputer performance has just passed the petaflops
milestone
Report on production of synthetic DNA and artificial
life
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2013-05-08
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2009-10-06
2009-09-07
2009-06-20
2011-04-19
2008-11-21
2008-11-21
2012-08-28
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Social and Political Studies
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The 14th White Privilege Conference was a
celebration of diversity
Margaret Thatcher deserves a full
biography to record her career
The European Union wants a trillion dollars, but how
will it spend it?
American Jews are unusually rich and well educated: Steven
Weiss asks why
The United States of America are divided and defeated as
never before
David Rieff on the dream and delusion of global
democracy
Barack Obama outlines the road ahead in a Rolling Stone
interview
The financial crisis has given new life to the Marxist
analysis of capitalism
A survey shows that about half of young American women shave their vulvas
The United States of Europe is coming and the financial crisis is helping
Consolidated page of writings on or by philosopher John Gray
Andrew Berwick's overlong declaration of European independence
Dan Wilson's novel about robot apocalypse is good enough for Spielberg
Max Brooks imagines a future war, World War Z, against zombies
Mark Lilla reflects on Chinese interest in Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt
Robert Wright contemplates the emerging global superorganism
A panoply of luminaries present their visions for the year 2020
John Rawls published an influential theory of justice in 1971
Philip Tetlock reviews three books that offer geopolitical prophecy
The next few decades may herald the emergence of the Nöosphere
Sigmund Freud critiques civilization and John Armstrong
defends it
Alain de Botton writes a bad book on work and
Andrew Ross writes a good one
Life in office cubicles is not good for the human spirit: a
philosophical protest
The European policy of tolerating immigrant cultural differences
has backfired
Fareed Zakaria analyzes global trends regarding
Islam and American power
The financial crisis has exacerbated the ruin of US
higher education
Robert Solow highlights the role of leverage in causing
the financial crisis
Former IMF chief economist offers crisis advice
to the US government
Roger Scruton ponders the sacred and the
human, forgiveness and irony
The British character has changed in recent
decades, says Theodore Dalrymple
Paul Krugman recommends Keynesian action to stave
off global depression
The US National Intelligence Council issues its
report Global Trends 2025
George Soros explains the financial crisis with his new theory
Chris Hitchens laments Sarah Palin's ignorance of science
The American love-hate relationship with biker
outlaws on chopped hogs
Quentin Skinner tries to
explain Thomas Hobbes on republican liberty
The classical Greek virtues
may be unfashionable but they are real
Neoconservative guru Leo Strauss and his
philosophy and background
Edward Luttwak argues
that Bush 43 will soon seem as successful as Truman
Steve Stein tries to balance climate greenery and
U.S. oil independence
Peter Thiel sees market implications in the risk of apocalypse
Roger Sandall on religion and violence
Review of books by Mandelbaum and Reich
on capitalism and democracy
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his
Mormon background
Global warming: how good is the
evidence and what does it show?
Richard Jenkyns and Jonathan Sacks ask
whether we need a literary canon
A report on the world in 2030 and an
account of Google in the cloud
Chalmers Johnson's apocalyptic trilogy on
the American republic
Caleb Crain contemplates the decline
of book culture
Oil was the most convincing reason for starting
the Iraq war
Ayn Rand was a key figure for many,
including Alan Greenspan
Al Gore and his new book on reason and the
environment
Norman Podhoretz makes the case for
bombing Iran
Recalling Oswald Spengler on the decline of
the West
Wendy Shalit on the new phenomenon of girls
gone wild
My unimpressed reaction to Jimmy Carter's
book on the Palestinians
Mark Steyn on the imminent end of
civilization as we have known it
Tony Blair on Middle East policy, Los
Angeles, August 2006
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2010-05-17
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Business Life
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Big Data is changing the world for good
and ill via new analytic apps
Facebook Graph Search tackles deep
challenges and may change the game
Tom Wolfe reports on how the Masters of the
Universe became eunuchs
An IEEE special report on the history
and future of money
Deutsche Bank experts say a euro crash is
now a very likely scenario
Germany is taking big steps toward a
renewable energy hydrogen economy
The established publishers of science journals are
under online attack
History of the unfolding tragedy of the European
common currency
Solar photovoltaic tables for charging wireless devices are coming
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and a new kind of science
A review of three or four books on the growth of a global online mind
Trotz Griechenland und Irland bleibt der Euro robust
Should we change our morality to celebrate the selfish pursuit of money?
The IBM Watson system will soon be competing in the TV quiz show Jeopardy
Amazon and Apple are spearheading a digital publishing revolution
HPI researchers have developed an imaginary interface for mobile devices
Goldman Sachs is a great vampire squid that profited from five big bubbles
Google may be about to monopolize access to all printed information
A vast deposit of black shale can provide natural gas for decades
Robot engineer Edward Boyden says the Singularity
could be a fixed point
Bloggers are causing the biggest news revolution since printed newspapers
SAP CTO Vishal Sikka has deep views on the future of enterprise applications
IEEE Spectrum Special Report on the Singularity
Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is the king of high-tech patents
The cloud and the grid, Google and CERN, the future of online life
Shai Agassi plans to deploy fleets of electric cars in Israel and Denmark
Sunseeker yachts are expensive and exclusive, and built in Poole
World-Wise Web: the semantic web, Tim
Berners-Lee, Wikipedia, mashups
SAP is making a big push to embrace small and
mid-sized enterprises
SAP in India and an essay on the Indian
middle class
SAP Developer Network blog I wrote on natural
language frontends
Group photo of my SAP NetWeaver TREX team in
September 2006
Photos of the 27th Annual International ACM
SIGIR, Sheffield, July 25-29, 2004
Photos of me at the SAP DKOM, SAP
University, October 27-28, 2004
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2013-01-16
2013-01-06
2012-07-19
2012-06-26
2012-03-29
2012-01-17
2011-10-08
2011-07-03
2011-06-09
2011-06-06
2010-11-23
2010-09-19
2010-06-17
2010-08-04
2010-06-10
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2011-08-03
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2009-09-04
2009-08-05
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2008-05-18
2013-03-06
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2008-03-30
2008-03-12
2011-07-30
2010-12-28
2010-03-21
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
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Islam and Islamism
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A British Museum exhibition on the pilgrimage to Mecca, the
Hajj
A new book describes the revolting religious sect called Shi'ism
A Pew survey projects global Muslim population growth by 2030
Americans inherited Islamist agents from the Nazis and now regret it
A formerly well regarded U.S. imam is now in Yemen preaching jihad
Egypt and the Arabs: a scholarly overview of the state of play
Two books by Muslim women suggest that Sharia is an intolerable system
Pankaj Mishra writes about Islam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and writing
Tariq Ramadan is disturbed by the Swiss refusal to accept more minarets
A new book on Islam in Europe claims that a revolution has occurred
On the censorship of a novel about the young wife of the prophet Mohamed
Two al Qaeda founding figures, Dr. Fadl and Dr.
Zawahiri, disagree
Selection of 2008 press stories about
Islam that provoked my ire
Nine new books on Jihadist fundamentalism help us
analyze its dynamic
Stanley Kurtz reviews a book by Philip Carl
Salzman on Arab tribalism
Geert Wilders is under
pressure to suppress his new movie about Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a book by Lee Harris
plus article by Lee Harris on jihad
Intriguing review of an apparently
misjudged book about Islamic Spain
Reviews of Edward Said, Western
Orientalists, and Ibn Warraq on Islam
Moez Masoud is a Muslim televangelist
who offers a hint of hope for us all
James Pinkerton on Samuel Huntingdon on
Christendom and Islam
Achievements and limitations of the
historic Islamic pursuit of science
Ian Buruma attempts to make the liberal case
for tolerating Islamism
Summary of authoritative lecture by Bernard
Lewis on Islam
Richard Wolin on the problem of tolerating
intolerant Muslims in Europe
Two critical reviews of a nasty book by
Dinesh D'Souza on 9/11
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Arts and Letters
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Saul Bellow recalled as novelist, husband, and father
Karen Wiesner explains how to write a novel in 30 days
Hilary Mantel's Tudor-era historical novels are winning
prizes
David Foster Wallace: a memorial page
Early reviews of Ian McEwan's 13th novel Sweet Tooth
look good
Shame and Sleeping Beauty are both movies exploring the outer
limits of sex
Consolidated page of edited reviews on the life and work
of Martin Amis
Philip Larkin was a sad and lonely figure who wrote
for decades to Miss Jones
Illustrated souvenir page on Amis,
Fenton, Hitchens, McEwan, and Rushdie
Chad Harbach reflects on the rise of MFA literary culture
Sven Birkerts laments the difficulty of reading novels in the web age
Gertrude Himmelfarb writes on how George Eliot wrote Daniel Deronda
Robert McCrum interviews young British novelist Sarah Waters
Robert McCrum reports how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four
Adam Kirsch reviews Europe via novels by
Sebald, Houellebecq, and McEwan
Ian McEwan looks at the role of religious
revelation in recent history
Martha Nussbaum reviews
some philosophers' books on Shakespeare
Will Self has written a good body of literature
including The Book of Dave
My cuts of reviews of Shalom Auslander's
memoir of growing up as a Jew
My illustrated cut of Colin McGinn's review
of Oliver Sacks on music
Illustrated celebration of Ian McEwan's
novel about Dunkirk and the movie
Reminiscence by David Lodge of Malcolm
Bradbury's famous television drama
Short cuts of some reviews of Tina Brown's
book on Princess Diana
Review of Ian McEwan's uncomfortable novella
about British honeymooners
Roger Sandall reflecting on the
sexualization of everyday life
Page about Philip Pullman's trilogy for
children and the resulting movie
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2012-08-28
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2008-05-05
2011-08-08
2008-03-02
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Military and Security
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The British Trident SLBM nuclear
deterrent is due for replacement
Korean war is a renewed possibility as
Kim Jong Un pumps up the rhetoric
James Blitz reviews the British debate
on how to replace Trident
Bill Sweetman reveals USAF secret
stealth drone activities
Many scenarios have been worked out for
a war against Iran
Israel has based a nuclear strike
capability on German U-boats
The National Security Agency is building a big data center
in Utah
The People's Republic of China is investing heavily in
military power
The IAEA report on Iran's nuclear weapons program with
IISS reaction
Remotely piloted aircraft represent the new wave in post-9/11
warfare
Das Panzergeschäft mit Saudi-Arabien ist politisch höchst
brisant
NATO is working on behalf of a broad-based coalition out of area in
Libya
LCS-2 USS Independence is ready for combat off the coast
of a hostile state
General McChrystal used Afghanistan as a laboratory for
counterinsurgency
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs more
political work to succeed
The British military presence in Yemen ended in the port of Aden in 1967
James Kurth considers how the United States can exert power
this century
British defence news from operations to procurement to strategy
Anti-missile systems like Aegis, Patriot, and Iron Dome are maturing fast
Robot war machines are evolving fast and already perform numerous roles
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reviews
national defense strategy
Michael Eisenstadt asserts that Barack Obama will
be a wartime president
Conflict in Georgia: news and analysis from the global press
Oil hits $130, Iran has oil and gas, the U.S. or
Israel may attack Iran
Counterinsurgency: the challenge for the U.S. Army
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to be reviewed by the Pentagon
New York Review essay on the nuclear arms
race and the Pakistan bomb
Illustrated celebration of the 60th birthday
of the United States Air Force
Illustrated cut of an essay advocating U.S.
resolution on the Iraq war
Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on
U.S. foreign policy and Islam
My cut of an essay by Robert Kaplan on the
U.S. will to win against terror
Illustrated discussion of military
robots and their role in warfighting
Critical review of General Petraeus'
counter-insurgency policy in Iraq
Christopher Hitchens reports on the death
of a model American soldier
James Kurth on U.S. foreign policy in an age
of limited manpower
Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on
post-cold-war U.S. foreign policy
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2013-04-11
2013-01-10
2012-12-11
2012-09-29
2012-06-05
2012-04-12
2012-04-06
2011-11-12
2011-09-19
2011-10-14
2011-04-19
2011-04-01
2010-06-25
2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2009-10-10
2009-08-08
2012-11-27
2009-03-17
2008-12-06
2008-11-06
2008-09-07
2008-05-22
2008-03-29
2011-09-04
2008-02-18
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2008-02-03
2008-01-24
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2012-08-15
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History
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Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler transformed the history of
Germany
The history of Germany from medieval times is central to
Europe
From start to finish, the
Third Reich was destined for disaster
Adam Kirsch reviews recent books on the moral ambiguities
of World War II
The neolithic revolution may have seen religion precede
agriculture
Collective page on the life and
historical writings of Niall Ferguson
Airfix model kits gave me a history lesson on aircraft
and their motors
A new book on the mass murder that Hitler and
Stalin committed together
An analysis of the duel that Hitler and
Churchill fought 70 years ago
Hitler's library offers a few insights into the mind
of a tyrant
Ludwig Wittgenstein
came from an extremely dysfunctional family
Andrew Roberts on
Churchill's War Cabinet and World War II
Charles Darwin first publicized his theory of
evolution 150 years ago
Adam Kirsch debunks another bad book by Pat
Buchanan on World War 2
Wernher von Braun made
rockets from V2 to Saturn V: a new biography
Austerity in Britain was bitter 65 years ago and is
again now
New books on Winston Churchill question his
conduct of World War II
From 1941 to 1945 the Mufti of Jerusalem lived as
an honored guest in Berlin
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the
UK and addresses Parliament
Nicolson Baker's book on the origins of World War
II is no good at all
Illustrated review of Operation
Barbarossa and the Soviet defeat of Nazism
New York Review essay on the problem of evil
and the Holocaust
Illustrated celebration of the ancient
Greek gods and their advantages
Illustrated memorial of the early Chinese
emperor Qin and his army
My cut of Francis Fukuyama on the history at
the end of history
My critical review of "war nerd" Gary
Brecher on the Second World War
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Psychology and Neuroscience
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Eben Alexander is a Christian neurosurgeon
who says he glimpsed heaven
Why is mental illness increasing in America if
the drugs are so good?
David Eagleman is fascinated by how the brain
gives us our perception of time
Iain McGilchrist has written what readers are
calling a classic of psychology
Carl Gustav Jung wrote a wonderful Red Book
for himself, first published now
Jane O'Grady reacts with shock and horror to the
eliminative materialists
Every time a memory is recalled it must be
reconsolidated and can be changed
What Bill Joy, Bill Gates and the Beatles have in
common is lots of practice
Emily Singer presents some stunningly detailed
views inside living brains
Oliver Sacks reports on a well documented
outbreak of manic depression
Belated report in English of the Haynes version
of the Libet experiment
Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff on how the mind
works
Hirnforschung: Berliner Prof. J.-D. Haynes bringt
den freien Willen in Frage
John Derbyshire's blog of Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008
The IBM Blue Brain project to model a
mammalian pyramidal column
Scientists have used
MRI scans to predict which images viewers see
Fascinating speculation on the neurological
roots of fundamentalism
Sigmund Freud was a premodern pioneer of
paradigms for psychology
Some reviews of Henry Stapp's quantum physics
of consciousness
Illuminating review of the psychopharmacology
of love
The roles of erotic and platonic love in
contemporary U.S. academic life
Responses to my JCS
essay Will Robots See Humans As Dinosaurs
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2008-11-16
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2012-08-17
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2011-09-13
2012-04-09
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2012-02-22
2011-01-09
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Religion and Atheism
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Three commentators accuse three New Atheists of
Islamophobia
Bart Ehrman looks at the birth of Jesus and a new book
by the pope
Scott Atran reviews recent scientific research on religion
and sacred beliefs
Jesus may have spent many years in India and died of
old age there too
The Four Horsemen of the Atheocalypse reflect wide
loss of religious faith
Philosopher Jürgen Habermas said a lot about religion
in recent years
Geza Vermes reflects on the Jewish Christians of the first
century CE
Mark Johnston says that adherents of the
Abrahamic religions are idolaters
Colin Wells asks how God got started in the reciprocity
of faith and reason
David Hart directs some fine polemic against the New
Atheists
Robert Wright reflects on the globalizing pull of
the Abrahamic religions
New work on the evolution and economics of religion
looks promising
Terry Eagleton prefers Aquinean mysticism to the hard
words of "Ditchkins"
Richard Wolin thinks faith is making a comeback
and cites Charles Taylor
Brendan O'Neill spikes the flaws in a shrill New Atheist movie
called Religulous
Two books on evolution and religion draw the fire of the
Edge Reality Club
Michael Brooks reviews recent results on the
psychosocial origins of religion
Alex Byrne on the ontological argument and arguments by design for God
Bede Griffiths on transcending the ego via love
and meditation
Nobel physicist Steven
Weinberg reflects on the decline of religion
Richard Holloway is a former bishop who writes popular books on ethics
Dan Dennett airs his
views in Templeton journal Science & Spirit
Stuart Kauffman on the theme of his new book
Reinventing the Sacred
Explaining Religion is a European science project to study
religious belief
Alan Wolfe on the inexorable
progress worldwide of secularization
Edited works by Theodore Dalrymple,
including his review of atheist books
Report of a lunchtime chat with
Christopher Hitchens in Washington, D.C.
Miscellany of reactions to Richard Dawkins'
book-length rant against God
Mark Lilla and Charles Taylor on religion; the Templeton
Foundation
My cut of two reviews of Rémi Brague on the
roots of divine law
Christopher Hitchens reports on his own
best-seller, Richard Dawkins too
David Sloan Wilson argues that Richard
Dawkins is wrong about religion
An outraged review of the Christopher Hitchens
book God Is Not Great
Brief report of Niall Ferguson's prediction
that Islam could sweep Europe
My cut of a long review of the God books by
Harris, Dennett, and Dawkins
Mary Eberstadt on how the West lost both
religion and big families
My cut of an Edge page by Elaine Pagels on
the Gospel of Judas
Reviews of Pope Benedict XVI on Jesus of
Nazareth and on dialectics
Christopher Hitchens reports on Islamic
penetration of his native London
New Yorker report on Christopher Hitchens
and other militant atheists
My own earnest statement presenting a
secular answer to fundamentalism
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Michael Dummett was one of the most important philosophers of his time
Derek Parfit has spent much of his life on an ethical theory that seems wrong
Ned Block and John Searle on Self Comes To Mind by Antonio Damasio
Mindblindness: Were Wittgenstein and other philosophers autistic?
Sam Harris tries to create foundations for a new science of morality
David Gelernter ponders the difference between human and artificial thought
Two New Humanist gems: Scruton on Pessimism and Grayling on evil
The philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger cover some horrible slime
Jerry Fodor takes a penetrating poke at Michael Tye on externalism
The 13th annual meeting of the ASSC took place in Berlin in June 2009
Thomas Metzinger's new book The Ego Tunnel follows Being No One
Giles Fraser on Friedrich Nietzsche on the genealogy of morals
Michael Rosen on Allen Wood on Immanuel Kant
American philosopher Stanley Fish deconstructs French philosophy
My summary of my current stance on panpsychism,
and Fodor on Strawson
Press response to the fight between Ted
Honderich and Colin McGinn
Philosopher Saul Kripke turns 65
Martin Heidegger: his philosophy, his love life, and his
legacy
Chris Frith and others on brain scans and the
new view of mind
Review of the philosophy of Richard Rorty
Reviews of Douglas Hofstadter's 2007 book on
strange loops
An interview with 1970s cult philosopher
Robert Pirsig
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Mideast and Asia
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Press reports timeline for Israel versus
Hamas, November 2012
Zhiqun Zhu on U.S.-China relations
after the 2012 presidential debates
Japan responded poorly to the 3/11 nuclear
disaster
The Obama administration gets a
failing grade on Mideast peace talks
Pakistan news stories over the last few years: a
list that gets longer
Jeffrey Goldberg presses the case for attacking Iranian
nuclear facilities
Global press reaction to the botched Israeli
raid on ships with aid for Gaza
Aaron David Miller despairs at 40 years of
a stalled Mideast peace process
Ian Bremmer predicts an economic cold war
between China and the West
Gordon Chang looks pessimistically at the future
of China
William Dalrymple has written a moving
account of religious life in India
The People's Republic of China celebrated
its 60th anniversary with missiles
Robert Baer presents the case that Iran
will be the next Middle East hegemon
A review of three recent books on Iran adds depth to the news
Obama will have a hard time selling the
two-state solution in the Middle East
The Chinese Communist Party is adapting
itself to keep up with the times
Greg Sheridan defends Israel against growing Arab anti-Semitism
David Samuels explains why he thinks Israel will bomb Iran
Three wise men advise President Obama on how to deal with Iran
Demolishing Hamas and learning the lessons of the Lebanon war of 2006
Christopher Hitchens and Joshua Hammer on the Mumbai atrocity
The Iraq war may deserve a "VI Day" just to let the vets achieve closure
A divorce in Israel highlights the risks of
converting to Judaism
Israel news: F-22 Raptors, lame ducks, taking out
Hamastan, ...
Love and marriage in Saudi Arabia and murder of a
daughter in Iraq
Li Yang is China's Elvis of English and the founder of Crazy English
Saudi despots are shamefully successful at subverting justice in the UK
Some 2008 developments in the Gaza Strip
Everything you needed to know in 2007 about China
My cut of Avishai Margalit on Israel as a
moral compass
Recent reviews of Saudi Arabia and its
conservative politics
Gadi Taub on liberalism, democracy and
the Jewish state
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