Bruce Charlton's Notions

* A comment I wrote at http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/questions-for-the-secular-right - which may help clarify: * I’d like to e...

* This is, of course, a perennial topic among the secular right; but the secular right are intrinsically very impatient and seek to build...

* The New Year is a meaningless celebration and wishing people a Happy New Year is a meaningless activity. So why do we all do it? Incre...

* In an idle moment I found myself speculating about who would have made up The Fellowship of the Ring, if the members had been chosen on ...

* This could be the most momentous blog entry you will ever read. * From Pascal's Pensees (re-punctuated by me) in the edition tit...

* If Charlton's Law is a correct generalization http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/07/charltons-law-things-must-always-get.ht...

* " 'I will tell you instead another anecdote, a very interesting and characteristic anecdote about Mr Ivan Karamazov himself. ...

* I am no expert on Russia, and (apart from their Orthodox Church) I do not envy the Russian 'lifestyle'; nonetheless it seems cle...

* I have never been satisfied with the usual cultural and scientific views on sleeping and dreaming. These see sleep and dream as both s...

* 1. What do you want? And what do you not want? Is your list any more than a mere wish list? If so, what binds-together these core valu...

* As I wrote yesterday, I feel that human thinking is essentially undivided, but that styles which could be called intuitive and rational ...

* In academic psychology, there are two concepts of creativity: 1. an older one which sees creativity in terms of dreamlike cognition, p...

* From sacred Monarchy and the Modern Secular State - http://www.czipm.org/azkoul.html H/T - http://tsarlazar.wordpress.com/ * "The...

* In 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (which has an atheist and materialist perspective) William James makes a distinction ...

* Modern elite culture, especially the mass media, pays remarkable lip service to  the importance of 'imagination' - considering t...

* [This post, composed on Xtmas morning surrounded by wrapping paper, is to prove that I am a serious blogger now...] * As I sat in t...

* Small talk is mostly about media-generated topics, and such phatic speech is mostly a matter of alliance building and in-group/ out-gr...

* Why do I use the term Political Correctness, instead of Liberalism? The reasons include: 1. The confusion over what 'liberalism...

* A brief account of the Medical Hypotheses Affair may be found here: http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-a...

* 2010 has been, even before it ends, an exceptionally eventful year in terms of my ideas and beliefs. * The major psychological event...

* Intuition is built-into humans. We come into the world equipped with intuitions (or 'common sense'): with knowledge and dispo...