Well, there seems to be a continuing trend for my blogs now, innocently I click on a Technorati tag search and see what happens. When the results surprise me, I end up blogging about them. I wonder when it will cease to surprise me.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the most recent one is the Technorati Philosophy blogs<\/a>. Now this is busy. When I looked at it just now there were over 370,000 blog posts with the tag and the last 30 days have added around 1500 a day.<\/p>\n Obviously this means a lot to someone…<\/p>\n Strangely, most of the ones Technorati took me to today were much more biased towards “religion” than philosophy per se<\/em>, but I assume most people have the two concepts closely linked. (It is not a requirement though).<\/p>\n Also a massive proportion of the blog posts seem to be the musings of religious-“spiritual” people in their late teens. Again, this panders to a few stereotypes and is a shame, as Philosophy is really a legitimate, serious subject with ramifications across lots of subject areas. An example of the slightly off the rails religious approach<\/a> and an example of the late teen approach<\/a> (Ok, she is 20 but my point remains) are available! It is worth noting that both sites have “Religion and Philosophy” as a single category.<\/p>\n Throwing a contrast, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science<\/a> presents a very different perspective and is well worth visiting for the free content if nothing else. It is not “easy reading” of the manner of the previous two, but if you are interested in science, it is certainly worth working through.<\/p>\n Now, after the “sane” examples we are left with the rest of the bunch. This is always an entertaining stage of blog surfing. The word Philosophy seems to drag them out of the woodwork – I may try “Religion<\/a>” when I have more spare time….<\/p>\n