Simon Katterl argues that the creation of Mental Health Acts have adverse and unintended impacts on voluntary users of services. Rather than utilize services freely, consumers are governed in lawless spaces, without rights, protections and restrictions on clinical power.
Sociologist Habib Khondker argues that organised skepticism is the key to critical thinking.
Against the backdrop of rising political and violent activities in the name of Islam, Dr Tariq Ramadan advances philosophical and historical bases and an analytical framework for critical thinking for Muslims in the East and the West.
Massimo Pigliucci argues “When assessing the role of Islam in the political dysfunction and violence in Islamic societies, many apologists choose to play down the role of the religion whilst many critics identify Islam as the source of the troubles. In reality, Islam is part of a mix of social ills that is neither blameless nor solely responsible for atrocities carried out in its name.”
Do the laws of physics, those complex rules which govern the universe, say anything about the existence of God? Does the belief in the existence of God change the way we think about those physical laws? Why have scientists ebbed and flowed between seeing physical laws as a way of killing God, to seeing them as a reflection of the mind of God??
Behind conflicts and overt wars, there are deep faultlines that divide humankind. Adnan R Amin argues that these faultlines are carefully cultivated and reinforced by power-elites. Examining how and why certain groups are systematically othered may yield insights as to why this phenomenon keeps recurring in human history.
Alochonaa (Dialogue) 