The Human Mind (01/17/2010)
(...) It consists of an impossible task, discuss with an advantage over different types of mind without referring to the various factors that come to form the different types of human beings. Psychologists used to think that the spirit was, simply, brain function, just as the bile is a product of the liver and the breathing function of the lungs. We now know that it requires much more than two lungs for breathing (also a nose, trachea, some chest muscles, diaphragm and a regulating center). (...)

PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTACKS ON GAY SEXUAL CULTURE (11/15/2008)
(...) Some gay men found that their profound anxiety and fears sometimes interfered with their ability to adopt low-risk sexual practices. Some even discussed in therapy sessions how nerve-wracking it was for them not to be able to reduce their number of sexual partners or adopt safer sex precautions, even while knowing that it was precisely the sexual nature of HIV transmission that made them afraid and anxious. When talk therapy alone did not help, a referral to a psychopharmacologist for a prescription of antianxiety or antidepression medication sometimes was appropriate. (...)

Scepticism in Modern Philosophy (05/17/2008)
(...) than to catch philosophers of this kind by the words they speak’. It is Descartes (1596–1650), however, who is generally considered to be the figure who brings scepticism most fully into the modern philosophical world, in his quest to find a secure basis for a theory of knowledge. He subjected all his beliefs to scrutiny, seeking to locate that elusive starting point from which he could then build outwards with assurance. (...)

Scepticism in Islamic Philosophy (05/17/2008)
(...) From our point of view it is unfortunate that Al-Ghazali’s scepticism ultimately was overcome by his religious belief. Whereas for Pyrrhonians dogmatism was the ‘disease’ to be feared, for Al-Ghazali that was scepticism. He speaks of God having ‘cured me of this malady’ in his autobiographical work Deliverance from Error (c. (...)

Scepticism in Contemporary Philosophy (05/17/2008)
(...) The attempt to meet, or even to understand, the sceptical challenge to our knowledge of the world is regarded in some circles as an idle academic exercise, a wilful refusal to abandon outmoded forms of thinking in this new post-Cartesian age. Stroud, as we shall see below, strongly disagrees with this negative assessment. Yet the anti-sceptical impulse is nevertheless commendable enough in its way, being concerned to prevent philosophy from collapsing into arguments about the grounds for argument, in which case the subject is not addressing all the other problems in the world around us – problems of ethics and politics, for example. (...)

Classical Scepticism (05/15/2008)
(...) they still provide the subject of epistemology with some of its most cunning puzzles and most obdurate problems’.5 Pyrrhonism is to be considered, therefore, more than just a historical curiosity. It provides an extremely useful point of reference for rethinking the project of scepticism in the twenty-first century. (...)