Blog
Like anyone else, I’m just trying to make sense of the planet I’ve found myself on and the universe I’ve found myself in. This blog collects various write-ups and thoughts from my reading and research, along with other miscellanea. Most of these are from my spare time and so represent no expertise other than curiosity, others are however drawn from my working life and are better informed. Most of them were written for my own purposes, a couple of them to amuse my wife.
Since the topics reflect my own interests at different points in time, they can be rather eclectic. You’ll probably be well-served to follow the link above to get the blog organised by tags as this will better enable you to find those most relevant to you, or to visit the page for a specific tag.
Posts
Richard Rorty's Philosophy and Social Hope
05 Apr 2026 in Philosophy
Some Facts About My Cat, Russell
27 Mar 2026 in Miscellaneous
22 Feb 2026 in Miscellaneous
21 Feb 2026 in Literature
18 Feb 2026 in Literature
Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows
19 Oct 2025 in Literature
Some Comments on a Recent NS Piece
03 Oct 2025 in Politics
Isaiah Berlin on the Scientific Method in History
18 Jun 2025 in Philosophy
14 May 2025 in Economics
27 Apr 2025 in Philosophy
08 Mar 2025 in Philosophy
Low-Dimensional Ideology is a Special Case of the Manifold Hypothesis
05 Feb 2025 in Political Methodology
Archived Posts
I have a bad habit of deleting, or taking offline, blogs and blog posts I am no longer satisfied with for one reason or another. To try and beat this habit, I’m making archived posts from this site’s blog available, so that I still have a mechanism for removing posts whose quality I am no longer satisfied with without permanently deleting them. You can find them here: blog archive.