4 Ways Philosophers Answer Children That Keep Asking, “Why?”
“Why is the sky blue?” asks a curious child on the drive to school in the morning. The child’s parent, being a worldly person, happens to know the answer. “Blue […]
What Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction Has to Say About Storytelling & Humanism: Book Review of “MaddAddam”
The final installment of Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction trilogy finally arrived this year, thus concluding her series which functions as a hypothetical answer to what may happen if we don’t […]
3 Explanations of the Groundings of Naturalistic, Non-Theistic Ethics
In a previous post about Cultural Relativism I proposed 4 arguments for relativism and then argued that none of them really work. It’s not that I had any arguments for […]
Three Atheists Walk into an Interfaith Dialogue….
Three atheists walk into an Interfaith dialogue… three opinions walk out. The Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University recently led a group of Rutgers students as a Humanist delegation to the […]
Of Evil Demons and Betting on Chicken Bones: Understanding Descartes’ “I Think, Therefore I Am”
In the early 1600s Rene Descartes penned what has become the most oft-quoted catch phrases from epistemology, if not all of philosophy. Compare the phrase to other philosophical catch phrases, […]
Playing the Godgame in Greece: Book Review of John Fowles’ “The Magus”
Happily nestled between spot 92 and 94 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 Best Novels, The Magus by John Fowles is a disorienting psychological thriller detailing the misadventures of […]
Why Shark Week is Now Utter ‘Bull Shark’: A Shark Lover’s Frustration with the Latest TV Sell Out
By John Artenstein, “The torso has been severed in mid-thorax. There are no major organs remaining…The right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the […]
The Anguished, Diasporic Asian Nationalism in America: Local Musings & Global Politics
“There is probably more conflict”, my politics professor likes to say, “between Israelis and Palestinians on College Ave., than there is in the West Bank”. Yet most of the combatants […]
Four Reasons Why Determinism is Irrelevant to Ethics & Free Will
Free Will, determinism, moral responsibility and how they work together, or don’t, is an enormously complicated question. Honestly, it’s probably one of the most intractable and complex questions in philosophy. […]
Soul Talk: My Experience Researching & Teaching on Souls at Rutgers University
By Dan Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University A Sketch of the Present Debate A front page article in the August 26, 2013, edition of the New York Times reports […]
Applied Sentience 