In recent years, there has been some consternation regarding certain artists who, much to their fans’ annoyance, have been known to go back and alter their earlier works. Writer, director, and producer George Lucas made…

I've come to view the contemplation of ethics and philosophy as a sort of "mental training," a series of exercises that seem pointless and irrelevant until one finds one's self under extreme duress. Imagine a boxer goin…

My recent blog on the need for reason to supplant religion raised some interesting debate...some of it here, some of it elsewhere. At the risk of further incensing those people who find such musings the height of hubris…

When I enrolled at the beginning of this semester, I chose to take a philosophy class. There was some reluctance on my part: my personal belief is that most philosophy is utter nonsense…meandering, existential gibberis…