Philosophy, et cetera

I expect plenty of people will be waking up to a new Oculus Quest 2 tomorrow, so figure it could be helpful to share some recommendations, ...

The folks at OUP kindly sent me a review copy of Nick Bostrom's new book Superintelligence , exploring AI risk.  It's a topic that l...

... on Amazon . H.E. Baber argues that multiculturalism is illiberal, insofar as it imposes 'scripted' expectations on individuals ...

I must thank Andrew Cullison for introducing me to Ubuntu ("Linux for Human Beings") last month. To pass along the favour, I...

I finally gave into temptation and bought myself a Kindle e-book reader , which I'm so far very impressed with. I immediately went to...

Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations explores the power of new communications technology a...

Let me recommend H.E. Baber's The Multicultural Mystique: the liberal case against diversity . The book's core argument is as follow...