Back in primary school I was often told by teachers or my parents that the way to improve one’s vocabulary was to read books. Their suggestion was to underline the words I did not know and look them up in a dictionary. I did not follow this advice. But can…

Logic is an essential part of a philosophy curriculum. These are two main things that I learnt from logic: Using logical systems like propositional logic and predicate logic to analyse the validity of arguments. …

Hume made a really clever realisation about how we think. He realised that when we reason about cause and effect, there isn’t a series of logical jumps that we make to get from a cause to its effect. Instead our minds simply begins to anticipate the cause upon seeing the…

In my first year of undergraduate philosophy, I was taught about the philosophical problem of Free Will. The problem is roughly about whether we can have Free Will in a deterministic universe. The solution to this problem that was presented to us is called Compatibilism. Compatibilism is the position that…

My first language was Hindi, but I started learning English very soon after. One of the accents in which I speak English is quite influenced by Hindi phonetics. The first two consonants in Hindi are: क and ख We are generally taught to think of them as क - ka …

I asked myself, “Do I want to write something about this now?”. I chose to, and hence I am here typing. Can we choose independently of the mechanical workings of the universe? It might feel as though we can, but this feeling is based on a logical fallacy. …

or any other website Last year, there was a Google talk at my highschool. During a section on YouTube, the speaker asked: “Who uses YouTube on a daily basis?”. Something like 90% of the auditorium raised their hands. Then she asked: “Who was up until 2 a.m. last night watching…

I’m learning Haskell. Although I know other programming languages, I don’t understand the functional paradigm yet. Learning Haskell is not just about learning the syntax. It’s about learning a new way of thinking about programming. To quote learnyouahaskell.com: “Learning Haskell is much like learning to program for the first time”. …

You too can be surely correct. Philosophers have been embarrassingly wrong about things. Plato believed that the earth was at the centre of the universe. Aristotle believed that women had fewer teeth than men. (You’d expect him to at least check the validity of this!) Yet these names are two…