Fairness
You know how when you buy a particular type or color of car, all of a sudden you start to notice a lot of the …
Philosophy
Our powerful collective fictions
In his fascinating book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (my short review) one of the ideas Yuval Harari presents is that large human societies …
Is metaphysics useful for anything?
It seems to me that modern, practical, in-use-by-real-people metaphysics is basically some ratio of what science tells us is factual plus whatever brand of supernatural …
Amatuer Philosophy
In my head, saying I’m into philosophy is a bit analogous to saying I’m an amateur medical doctor. If I told someone I was an …
