A collection of philosophical investigations
What do we owe the manifold people in our lives? And what normative theory actualizes what is owed? I argue, most basically, for the principle of not harming, which is actualized by endorsing moderate virtue ethics. To make my case,… Read moreWhat We Owe to Others via Moderate Virtue Ethics
I argue that the printing press and the networked personal computer (henceforth NPC), while both key moments in the history of technology that have some resemblance, are radically different communication networks. I first briefly explain these technologies. I then consider… Read moreThe Printing Press and the Networked Personal Computer
An exposition on error from Kant’s Transcendental Analytic.
In this essay I examine Aristotle’s claims in the De Anima III, 5 about the divine aspect of the productive intellect.
A problem throughout the history of philosophy is the relationship between reason and faith. This epistemological puzzle revolves around whether one should rely on their reasoning or trust the reasoning of another. In early modernity, some thinkers claimed that having… Read moreThe Interdependence of Faith and Reason in the Thought of Augustine
Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is, in part, a response to the mind-body problem that arose from Cartesian metaphysics. While Descartes argued for two fundamentally different substances, material bodies and immaterial minds, he could not explain their interaction. Spinoza’s monist metaphysic attempts… Read moreEverything is Nature – Moving from Substance to Process Metaphysics
David Foster Wallace wrote, “in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”[1] In contemporary… Read moreThe Religious Nature of Humans