From time to time, I am asked how I would respond to various skeptical truth claims such as idealism, anti-realism, or solipsism. Just the other day, I received an email asking me the solipsist question. The interesting thing about this questioner is that they are seriously contemplating that they may be the only mind that […]
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My psychic powers can turn street lamps off. Seriously. (Or not)
For years now I’ve noted a strange phenomenon when I go walking at night. Just as I walk under a street lamp it switches off. Not all the time, mind you, but enough that I’ve noticed. I never really thought about it much, but I always assumed that there was some kind of malfunctioning movement […]
What a coincidence! An exercise in worldview analysis
The other day my daughter set about looking for her copy of Fablehaven (a best-selling book of children’s fantasy lit) when she realized that she’d left it in my car. Since I was gone at the time she headed into her room and picked another book to read from among the approximately two hundred titles […]