On Medium: Objective Morality Must be Godless

Here's an article about the prospects of objective morality for theists and secularists, and how God’s existence would make everything partly subjective.

On Medium: Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

Here's a dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God.

On Medium: Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

Read on for a dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders, and the clash between psychiatrists' scientific status and their deference to social conventions.

On Medium: Are People Special from a Cosmic Perspective?

Here's a dialogue on whether secular humanism is consistent with philosophical naturalism, or an objective view of our place in nature undermines the humanist's anthropocentrism.

On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature

Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.

On Medium: Must Religions be Lamely Theistic to be Socially Useful?

Here's a dialogue on the sociology of religion, secular humanism’s prospects as an alternative faith, and whether the religions that bind society must be lamely theistic.

On Medium: Prophetic Insights in the Cosmic Void

Read on for a dialogue on the shamanic and Biblical roots of existential humanism, and whether dark cosmic insights are perennially found in countercultures.

On Medium: Should Secular Philosophy be Rooted in Cosmic Horror?

Read on for a dialogue on whether a cynical, Lovecraftian view of nature makes sense and could ever support a mainstream culture.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: Are We Many or One?

Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.

On Medium: Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.

On Medium: Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

Here's a dialogue on whether history is progressive, or whether Trumpism shows we shouldn’t expect much social justice from history.

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 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: Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Read on for a dialogue on whether Christianity is deeply incoherent, given, for instance, how the deification of Jesus implies both monotheism and polytheism.

On Medium: Personhood, Humanism and the Cosmos: A Dialogue

Here's a dialogue on whether secular humanists can account for people’s anomalousness, or whether religion is needed to recognize that people are precious.

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Secular Humanistic Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how humanists approach the question of whether life has a purpose, and how theists challenge the secular lifestyle.

On Medium: Scrutinizing the Religious Meaning of Life

Read on for a dialogue on how theistic religions approach the question of what we should be doing in life, and whether religions can support the contention that human life has a purpose.

On Medium: The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern Nihilism

Read on for a dialogue on the internet's role in our descent into the postmodern condition, and potential remedies for late-modern angst and cynicism.