Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

The chance you take, may turn out to be the best decision you ever made." LJB

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim, My darkness is composed of him.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

Is it not meningitis?

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also