Philosophical Disquisitions

Since we are coming up on the end of year, I thought it might be worth doing a few 'end of year' retrospectives, pulling together so...

Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock is a classic of the futurist genre. The book makes a simple but striking argument: o...

In this episode I talk to Matthijs Maas. Matthijs is a doctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen's 'AI and Legal Disru...

Does life have meaning? This is a question that troubles many of us, but we usually ask it from a first-person perspective: Does my l...

( Note to reader: These are lightly expanded notes for a class I once gave on freedom of speech. The notes are intended to explain the...

I was recently called a hypocrite. I was talking to a friend and, as is my wont, I was complaining about another person who failed to...