On Medium: Can Philosophy Save Humanity?

Here's a dialogue on philosophy’s social potential and whether philosophers must be social outsiders or whether they can contribute directly to social progress.

On Medium: The Fear of Nature’s Impersonal Physicality

Read on about the naturalist's confused talk of nature’s lawfulness, which might compensate for our fear of nature's monstrous, impersonal physicality.

On Medium: Consciousness is Nature’s Warning that Living Things are Insurgents

Read on about the brain's relevance to the hard problem of consciousness, the uncanny valley, why we’re not all zombies, and life's rebellion against nature.

On Medium: No, Atheists Aren’t Illogical, Cowardly Boors and Bigots

Here's an article that corrects a crude caricature of atheism and delves into the epistemology that supports atheism and discounts the cheap pose of agnosticism.

On Medium: “Stand to Reason’s” Feeble Arguments for Theism

Read on for how to dispose of the moral and cosmological arguments for theism, and why Christian apologetics is a fraud.

On Medium: Qualia, Alienation, and the Brain’s Mental Simulations

Read on for a critique of Joscha Bach’s computational theory of consciousness that emphasizing the role of alienation from physical reality.

On Medium: God’s Dystopia and Nature’s Wild Origin

Here's an article that contrasts religious and godless models of nature’s inhuman enormity, showing how Plato's and Aristotle's dualisms speak to a wild disunity in nature.

On Medium: Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy?

Read on for a dialogue on the need for reason’s integration with intuition, and whether philosophers should be elitists or popularizers in dealing with the public.

On Medium: The Dread of Nature’s Lifeless Physical Energy

Read on about how the nature of scientific explanation entails a dark pantheistic evaluation that acknowledges the monstrousness of physical energy.

On Medium: Nature Includes Real Anomalies

Read on about the rise of organic deviations from the cosmic flow, and how the so-called unified natural order includes objective anomalies.

On Medium: A Silver Lining of Trumpian Madness

Read on about how the travesty of Trump’s hyperreality can inadvertently humble and enlighten us, by illustrating how all knowledge filters the facts.

On Medium: The Wisdom History Teaches Us

Read on for a dialogue on what liberals should learn from the global rise of authoritarianism, and whether history provides the wisdom to overcome this threat.

On Medium: The Horror of American Politics: All Dragons, No Knights

Here's an article on the nightmare that prepared Americans for Trump's authoritarianism and kakistocracy, and how Democrats can regain their honour.

On Medium: What is the Universe’s Godless Structure?

Read on about the role of mathematical abstraction in the absence of a divine plan, and the relevance of the two main senses of "structure" to metaphysics.

On Medium: Who Has the Self-Reinforcing Delusion, Theists or Atheists?

Here's an article that corrects the Catholic philosopher William Desmond’s confusions about godlessness and self-reinforcing presuppositions.

On Medium: Can Pantheists or Humanists Save our Dying Planet?

Read on for a dialogue on competing mindsets for addressing the ecological crisis, namely nature-worshipping pantheism and progress-seeking secular humanism.

On Medium: Christianity Turned Jesus into a Paper Tiger

Read on about how the Church’s brand nullified Jesus’s countercultural idealism to excuse the rise of godless Christendom.

On Medium: Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread

Here's an article that recovers secular morality by combining the standard philosophies (virtue theory, deontology, utilitarianism, and existentialism).

On Medium: God, Atheism, and the Astonishing Fact that Nature Exists

Read on for a critique of William Desmond’s wonder-based, apologetical philosophy of religion and his conception of atheism as a presupposed ethos.