The other night I was fortunate enough to talk with Dr. Andy Thomson, Author of the ground breaking Why We Believe in Gods: A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith, and a Trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation Andy Thomson Interview. One of the most impressive aspects...

Much has been said in recent weeks following the unveiling of Atheism+, a form of social idealism enshrined in the philosophical precept of Atheism with its claws firmly wrapped around political philosophy. It is this uneasy marriage of the philosophy of Atheism with the apparent political philosophy of Atheism that...

The Bilderberg Group has an enigmatic aura. One often wonders what exactly gets discussed at these meetings. Perhaps the most important issue is how and why the group exists and how it affects global political economy; or conversely how global political economy affects the activity of the group. The Bilderberg...

Conservatism as a political philosophy is difficult to define and locate within a philosophical spectrum. From a traditional standpoint it's more a disposition and attitude than a fully fledged philosophy or doctrine. At an obvious first glance the disposition is about the conservation of values and ideals. This is in...

The amalgamation of three current events makes this question perhaps more salient than ever. Primarily it's the Christmas period. This is a time of monotheistic spiritual inception for the western world's faithful and one on both consumption and giving for the secular. Secondly, the conjoining in the last few weeks...

America as an epicenter of political and economic prowess has always been a fascinating case study. With a population of over 300 million, the inhabitants of America's 50 States throw up some astonishing yet interesting statistics. Over 1 in 4 is obese, 1 in 4- believes that Jesus will come...

Postmodernism as a broad intellectual, social and literary movement is hard to capture and define, not more so due to the deliberate wishes of the some of it protagonists for the paradigm to remain enigmatic. As many Post modernists question the practice and prorogation of meta and universal theories grounded...

As any Philosopher of Science will tell you formal theories serve as explanations to observed phenomena, an association between the explanandum - the object of phenomena to be explained; and the explanans - the framework, concept or theory to be used as an the reference point for explanation. Pioneers in...