Wednesday, April 2, 2025

On Medium: Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread

Here's an article that recovers secular morality by combining the standard philosophies (virtue theory, deontology, utilitarianism, and existentialism).

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

On Medium: God, Atheism, and the Astonishing Fact that Nature Exists

Read on for a critique of William Desmond’s wonder-based, apologetical philosophy of religion and his conception of atheism as a presupposed ethos.

Monday, March 31, 2025

On Medium: Surveying Christianity’s Internal Conflicts

Read on for a dialogue on whether Christianity is deeply incoherent, given, for instance, how the deification of Jesus implies both monotheism and polytheism.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

On Medium: Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

Read on about the futile bridges of philosophy, science, mysticism, and horror fiction: by always simplifying to understand things, the facts always include a terrifying unknown or ignored side.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

On Medium: Consciousness and the Transformation of Nature

Here's an article about the role of qualia in nature’s taming of itself, or how consciousness acts as an alienating limbo that motivates degrees of terraforming.

On Medium: Trump’s Second Term is a Natural Disaster

Read on about Canada’s options for riding out the storm of Trump's tariffs, imperial threats, and authoritarian dismantling of America's liberal institutions. 

Monday, March 24, 2025

On Medium: The Atheist’s Supposedly Grim Explanatory Burden

Read on about the atheist's supposed special difficulties explaining the universe's origin, free will, and morality, and why religious folks have it much worse.


Thursday, March 20, 2025

On Medium: The Bogus Reasons an Atheist Converted to Christianity

Here's an article that sorts through the hogwash of Christian apologetics, including some weak arguments why a supposed atheist converted to Christianity.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror of Nature’s Profound Dumbness

Read on about the pejorative sense of life's being an accident, which some secular humanists whitewash by saying we should be grateful for life's unlikelihood.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

On Medium: A Lament for the Last Days of Modernity

Read on about Trumpism, the historic reversion to global barbarity, and the obligations of history's last liberals as they look on at modernity's imminent demise.