Journeyman Philosopher

In imagining a Sci-Fi scenario, I found a simple way of describing, if not explaining, Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Imagine if...

In a not-so-recent post , I mentioned a letter I wrote to Philosophy Now challenging a throwaway remark by Raymond Tallis in his regular co...

Now everyone pretty well agrees that there is not one single thing that makes humans unique in the animal kingdom, but most people would agr...

I occasionally write science fiction; a genre I chose out of fundamental laziness. I knew I could write in that medium without having to do ...

Someone lent me a really good philosophy book called Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee.  To quote directly from the back fly leaf cover: “B...

I recently got involved in a discussion on Facebook with a science fiction group on the subject of artificial intelligence. Basically, it st...