Reason vs Religion at Rutgers: Julien Musolino Debates Mark Baker
I don’t go to public debates nearly as much as I should. This is just one of the many things I learned from attending the The Veritas Forum last night, […]
Why We’re Here: Exploring the Causes of Hong Kong’s Protests
By Denzel Zhu Sophomore, Rutgers University Last Friday, November 14, marked the seventh week of Occupy Central: the protests in the Hong Kong that were sparked by electoral reforms proposed […]
Alan: Or, My Friend the Utility Monster
Warning: This post deals with some pretty unusual philosophy. You may want to prepare by reading this Facebook status, which is a quick, bare-bones summary of what I’ll be talking […]
Did Interstellar Live Up to its Hard Sci-Fi Hype? Review of Nolan’s Space Opera
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR. I just got back from watching Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar in glorious, eye-popping IMAX. I’m really torn right now. I’ve written and […]
The Ethics and Economics of the “Good Death”
Brittany Maynard and Death with Dignity Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old woman who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has recently pushed the question of physician-assisted suicide back into […]
‘Minority Experience’ is Common Ground in Interbelief Dialogue
Beliefs are a difficult subject for people to bond over if they are coming from different belief systems. Where to begin? Never start with the divinity of Christ. Polytheism? Whether […]
A Defense of Social Labels
Are you a Democrat or Republican? A Christian, or maybe Muslim? An Atheist? What’s your stance on abortion: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? What’s your ethnicity? Labels for political parties, religions, races, […]
Ownership vs Stewardship: Beyond the Binary in the Assisted-Suicide Debate
I first became interested in the debates surrounding assisted suicide through watching my father battle cancer. His story is, sadly, unremarkable in the sense that like so many before him, […]
The Importance of Hard Science Fiction
For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]
A Note on Dealing with Death & Dying, Trauma & Tragedy
At a recent workshop on ‘Trauma in Everyday Life,’ a psychologist spoke about big ‘T’ and little ‘t’ trauma. Big ‘T’ trauma is what we commonly refer to when speaking […]
Applied Sentience 