These essays and short articles have all been written by Tim Harding. Some of them have also been presented as talks.
Philosophy
- What is logic?
- What is rationality?
- What is a fact?
- What is emergence?
- Why People Confuse Philosophy with Speculation
- In Defence of Western Civilisation
- The Philosopher: Classical Greece and Today
- Proportionality in war
- Sociology and individual behaviour
- Free trade vs tariffs
- The Primacy of Personal Responsibility Over Societal Influences in Crime
- Against psychologism
- Leadership vs Followership
- Theoretical physics and metaphysics
- In support of objective truth
- Against postmodernism
- Socialism in the 21st century
- The Harm of Racial Slurs
- Power without work (in preparation)
- A joint response to Gary Bakker on scientism and philosophy
- How to startup and run a local skeptics group
- On Jennifer Lackey’s ‘Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission’
- On Gettier Problems
- Consequentialism versus Justice
- Rationality and truth
- Determinism, free will and compatibilism
- Searle’s construction of social reality
- The Gricean Maxims
- Searle’s case for realism
- The Rejection of Expertise
- Epicurean free will
- The Stoic theory of universals, as compared to Platonic and Aristolian theories
- The professional model of representative democracy
- The Uselessness of Cynicism
- Skepticism, Science and Scientism
- Economic efficiency and social justice
- Skepticism – philosophical or scientific?
- Descartes’ cogito and certainty
- Contingency in the natural sciences
- The Fallacy of Faulty Risk Assessment
- Deliberation Day
- A case for mineral royalties
- Cultural relativism vs human rights
- The Rationality of Accepting Settled Science
- Are numbers real?
- Stoicism in the Modern World
- The correspondence theory of truth
- Consciousness vs Self-consciousness
Ethics
History
- The Cognitive Dissonance of Christian Anti-Semitism
- Against the Celebration of Ned Kelly
- Hitler’s British appeasers admitting fault
- The Costs and Benefits of British Colonialism
- The Eureka Rebellion Myth
- Was William I of England really a Conqueror?
- Colonisation is not abnormal
- Why did slavery decline earlier in the North than in the South of the United States?
- The Sceptical Chymist
- 12 basic things Australians should have learned at school
- DNA and GM foods
- Some Origins of Western Quackery
- Radical democracy in ancient Athens
- Ancient Athens and the Delian League
- Egyptian Kingship in the Middle Kingdom
- Theories of Generation
- Divides between sacred, secular, art and popular music
- Ancient astronomy and astrology
- The Astronomical Renaissance
- The Dolphin Delusion
- Charles Darwin – where he was right and wrong
- Traditional Chinese Medicine vs Endangered Species
- The Dark Ages
- The Birth of Experimental Science
- The Medieval Agrarian Economy
- Reflections on medieval history
- How did Augustus become the first Roman Emperor?
- Collectivism in Asia vs Individualism in Europe
Science
- Chemistry and physics
- Theoretical physics vs philosophy
- Ten Animal Welfare Myths
- Awareness of surroundings
Politics
- Western Leftists and the Iranian Dictatorship
- Anti-Semitic slogans banned
- Western Leftists and Islamic States
- The racism of low expectations
- What is Islamist terrorism?
- Why communism is bad in both theory and practice
- Against Trotskyism
- Against Ideocracy
- Is centrism unusual these days?
Law
- A Royal Commission Is Not a Court
- A Case for Personal Responsibility in Criminal Behaviour
- Sovereignty and Land Ownership: Distinct Legal Domains
- Sovereign citizen defences dismissed as frivolous
Economics
- AI and Productivity
- Socialist paternalism vs free market choices
- The Purpose of Progressive Taxation
- Philanthropy vs taxation for charity funding
- Free trade vs tariffs
- Equal opportunity vs equal outcomes
The Arts
- Sabotage of the Adelaide Writers Festival
- Graffiti vs Art
- The early influence of Louis Armstrong on Coleman Hawkins, as mediated by Fletcher Henderson
- Knowing When It Works: Artists vs Producers
- Against musical purism
- The Role of Moral Ambiguity in Cinema
Management
- Policy vs Management
- Allocating Work versus Delegating Responsibility
- Contractors vs Employees
- Structures are no substitute for strategy
- Against managerialism
- Co-operation at work
- Boards and Ministers steer: management rows
- Sick leave is for when you are sick
- Praise in public, criticise in private
- Leadership vs Followership
- A summary is not an introduction
Other
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