Journeyman Philosopher

I wrote this so long ago, I can't remember when; but it was when I was bold enough to believe that I could teach creative writing in a c...

Sometimes people I disagree and argue with hold extreme positions. This frequently happens in politics and religion, and it’s currently happ...

I was going to call this: What is reality? because there is so much disagreement about what constitutes reality in physics and philosophy. I...

It’s not like me to read the classics, but this is a story that many of us grew up with, like Biblical stories, and I can’t help but feel th...

This is in response to a letter published in Philosophy Now (Issue 121, August / September 2017) by Peter Jones. I know nothing about him e...

I’ve been reading a book, The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent, subtitled A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning . At close ...