Essays and talks

These essays and short articles have all been written by Tim Harding. Some of them have also been presented as talks.

• What is logic? 
• What is rationality? 
• What is a fact?
• The Eureka Rebellion Myth (in prep)
• The Sceptical Chymist
• The Harm of Racial Slurs
• Was William I of England really a Conqueror?
• Power without work (in preparation)
• A joint response to Gary Bakker on scientism and philosophy
• How to startup and run a local skeptics group
• Why did slavery decline earlier in the North than in the South of the United States?
• On Jennifer Lackey’s ‘Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission’
• On Gettier Problems
• Consequentialism versus Justice
• 12 basic things Australians should have learned at school
• DNA and GM foods
• Rationality and truth
• The Case of the Falling Fat Man
• Some Origins of Western Quackery
• Determinism, free will and compatibilism
• 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
• The Gricean Maxims
• Ten Animal Welfare Myths
• Searle’s construction of social reality
• Contingency in the natural sciences
• Searle’s case for realism
• Charles Darwin – where he was right and wrong 
• The early influence of Louis Armstrong on Coleman Hawkins, as mediated by Fletcher Henderson
• The Rejection of Expertise 
• Economic efficiency and social justice
• Traditional Chinese Medicine vs Endangered Species
• The Dark Ages
• Skepticism – philosophical or scientific?
• Descartes’ cogito and certainty 
• The Birth of Experimental Science
• Did Descartes think that animals have feelings?
• The Medieval Agrarian Economy
• Reflections on medieval history
• Epicurean free will
• The Fallacy of Faulty Risk Assessment
• The Stoic theory of universals, as compared to Platonic and Aristolian theories
• The Uselessness of Cynicism (in preparation)
• Deliberation Day
• How did Augustus become the first Roman Emperor?
• The professional model of representative democracy
• The ‘cultural appropriation’ of swing music (in preparation)
• Skepticism, Science and Scientism

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