All Embracing But Underwhelming…

On Friday I received a response to my article submission (the piece I gave back at the beginning of last year to the Postgraduate Conference in Kaikoura). This was a little surprising; I had been told it would take three to four months to get a reply and I sent it in (well, used a [...]

[ 27 September, 2008; 9:15 am to 10:00 am. ] Saving the Paranormal from the Laws of Science

Skeptics Conference 2008, Waikato Diocesan College, 660 River Rd, Hamilton, Saturday the 27th of September

It is generally recognised that theoretical reasoning allows us to generate a lot of beliefs about the world, but some people take what can be called the ’strong’ version of the argument from theoretical [...]

Several thousand years ago (or so it seems) I wrote a paper defending an epistemological position regarding the possible existence of things called ‘paranormal,’ which was submitted to The Skeptic which was accepted for publication and then… Well, nothing happened…