On Medium: Do Minds Relate Miraculously to the World?

Here's an article that disposes of a frivolous argument for God’s existence, based on the supposed mystery of psychophysical harmony.

On Medium: Are Religions More Helpful than Godless Cultures?

Read on to weigh the pragmatic, moral, and aesthetic comparisons of worldviews to determine whether religious cultures are better than irreligious ones.

On Substack: Should All Pragmatists be Theists?

Here's a dialogue about the pragmatic case for theism.

On Medium: The Pragmatic Case for Atheism

Read on about the godless foundation for civility, and how pragmatism favours secular humanism over theism.

On Medium: Has Modernity Always Been Just a Sham?

Read on for a response to Bruno Latour’s critique of the distinction between society and nature.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: The Ruse of the Conservative’s Pragmatic Case Against Atheism

Read on for a dissection of Niall Ferguson’s conservative Christian criticism of godless lifestyles, and to see whether there's merit in a pragmatic case against atheism.

On Medium: All Worldviews Cope with Life’s Absurdity

Read on about how existentialism levels the cultural playing field, by accounting for how worldviews address absurdity rather than just reason or utility.

On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.

On Medium: Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

Read on about the dubious grounds for the pessimistic dismissal of idealists, stemming from Napoleon's infamous cynicism.

On Medium: How Objective is Science?

Read on for a dialogue on structural realism, the limits of objectivity, and the potential for neo-animistic scientific projections onto nature.

On Medium: The Clash Between American and Chinese Atheism

Read on about liberalism, authoritarian collectivism, the late-modern sidelining of religion, and the clash between American and Chinese versions of secularism.

On Medium: The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.

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: The Secular Humanist’s Ontology

Read on about nature’s wildness, the language game of metaphysics, and the search for the secular humanist's broadest categories.

On Medium: Alienated Intellectuals aren’t Fully Alive

Read on about the extravert’s rejoinder to elitist introverts, which is that the introvert occupies a deathly state that isn't fully committed to life's routines.

On Medium: Are We All Illusions that Lead God Astray?

Here's a dialogue on nonduality, Western and Eastern views of enlightenment, and the implications of regarding our personal minds as misleading illusions.

On Medium: Quantum Wildness and the Newtonian Myth of a Natural Order

Read on about the persistence of wildness in civility, the refusal to submit to natural facts, and how we simplify nature's unfathomability with ideological models.

On Medium: A Dialogue on Whether Societies are Built on Infinite Relations

Here's a dialogue I had with Pierz Newton-John about the implications of late-modern science for humanist values: is egoism as naïve as the Newtonian conception of atoms, if metaphysically there are only relations, not things?

On Medium: The Scientific Threat to the Consumer’s Atomistic Ethos

Read on about whether the world is made of relations rather than things, and whether a relationalist metaphysics undermines the liberal values of individualism.