What is consciousness? The philosopher David Chalmers distinguishes between the Hard Problem and the Easy Problems of explaining conscio...

Here is the secret history of life: animals evolved as machines produced by genes and proteins, working in concert with undead natural fo...

Most people are harmless but amoral: they don’t go out of their way to violate anyone’s rights, but their innocence isn’t particularly pr...

Competition is idolized by egotists. To be sure, although most animals in the wild can’t be arrogant because they have little self-contro...

Savvy Western elites are suspicious of the modern glorification of Reason. They’re aware that postmodernism began with a litany of critiq...

Here's the seventh eBook installment of RWUG articles . Some of these most recent articles summarize many of the previous ones. I'...

There are three types of people, regardless of culture, sex, age, or historical period . There are leaders, followers, and outcasts. Thes...

Here's a topical anthology of some RWUG articles, called Artificiality and the Aesthetic Dimension , and here are the other RWUG eBook...

Here's an article of mine, called Science, Nihilism, and the Artistry of Nature , that Scott Bakker put up on his blog. I wrote it s...

In a Nerdist podcast , Neil deGrasse Tyson expresses the vulgar scientistic view of philosophy in something close to its paradigmatic for...