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Blind Power Circus had to Trump!

What’s this liberal media’s hullabaloo and condemnation of Donald Trump all about? And lo and behold , even political saints … More

Rational Fools

Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, coined the term “Rational Fools” nearly 35 years ago. In his famous paper, Sen … More

Capitalism, Commons, Efficient Markets, Elinor Ostrom, Game Theory, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Rational Action, Rational Fools

The Ship of Theseus sails in Water (and not H2O)

The difference between natural language and the language of science The problem of reference in philosophy deals with relations of … More

Aristotle, Chomsky, H2O vs Water, Hilary Putnam, Hume, Language, Locke, Obama, Plato, Princess and the Frog, Ship of Theseus, Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein contra Wahhab

The basic tenet of Salafi/Wahhabi Muslims is that the word of God, i.e., the Quran, is not open to interpretation; … More

Bertrand Russell, Frege, Islamism, Language Game, Mutazilite, Philosophical Investigations, Picture Theory of Language, Quran, Salafi, Shia, Sunni, Tractatus, US Imperialism, Wahhab, Wahhabism, Wittgenstein

The Evolution of Human Behavior?

On why scientists should not make unsubstantiated claims in popular science works especially where human beings are concerned It is … More

Darwin, Evolution, Evolution of Behavior, Evolution of Competition, Evolution of Cooperation, Kin Selection, Natural Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, Richard Dawkins, Robert Trivers, Steven Pinker, Storytelling, tit for tat, W.D. Hamilton

Bombs, Sectarianism and Blasphemy: What’s Art Got To Do With It?

March 4, 2013 Was coming back from an “Art Event” at the Karachi Arts council. I don’t go to such … More

art, art under duress, blasphemy, Bombings, Habib Jalib, Krishna Chandra, orwell, Pablo Neruda, resistance art, Salman Khan, Sectarianism, shakespeare, Tolstoy, war and peace, What is art

I ♥ Game Theory; Let’s all be irrational, shall we?

Some nights back, my flight from Karachi to Islamabad couldn’t land due to bad weather in Islamabad and instead it … More

Cooperation, Dissident Journalists Dilemma, Game Theory, Games, Irrationality, Poor Man's Dilemma, Prisoner's Dilemma, Rationality, Tragedy of the Commons

Newton’s ‘Quantum Revolution’ and the Death Knell of Materialism

In an earlier post on Einstein, I discussed Newton’s demolition of the mechanical philosophy. Since the topic of materialism is … More

Einstein, Intelligibility, Materialism, Mechanical Philosophy, Newton, Physics, Quantum Mechanics

Thrasymachus vs Socrates or: How I learned to stop worrying and love oppression!

One of the most important tenets of a rational outlook is to change one’s model of the world in light … More

israel, Might is right, Pakistan, palestine, Socrates, Thrasymachus, US, Vietnam, Zero Dark Thirty

Profits over people: Aaron Swartz and the dominant model of our world

For those who did not know, Aaron Swartz committed suicide on the 11th of January, 2013. He was being prosecuted … More

Aaron Swartz, Copyleft, Intellectual Property Rights, Profits over people

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