Philosophy

American intelligence sources during the Cuban Missile Crisis

America used a variety of methods to gather intelligence about Cuba’s arms development during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This article evaluates which source of intelligence was most effective. I...

April 18, 2022

The search for meaning in Waiting for Godot and The Outsider

A fundamental pursuit of humanity is the search for meaning. In this article, I compare how Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Albert Camus’ The Outsider challenge this. These works both...

December 30, 2020

An analysis of Waters of March

Waters of March (Portugu ese: Águas de Março) is a song composed by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim. In this article, I examine the meaning and significance of its lyrics. Rather than...

March 20, 2019

Critical and creative thinking in knowledge generation

Critical and creative thinking are two distinct types of thought. In this article I evaluate both in terms of their ability to generate knowledge in the natural sciences and the arts. Several...

August 20, 2018

An analysis of Beckett's Endgame - the human condition

What does it mean to be human? Many great writers and philosophers have tried to answer this fundamental and challenging question. One of the most interesting portrayals of the human condition is by...

May 29, 2018

An argument against free will: freedom of choice, but not of will

A central issue in the free will debate is confusion and disagreement about how the term is defined. The topic is clarified considerably when we distinguish freedom of choice from freedom of will. I...

December 30, 2015

Categories of existence

Physical existence The goal of this article is to fully categorize all ways in which things can exist. The most obvious type of this is physical existence. Such things exist at a particular location...

January 03, 2015

A response to C. S. Lewis’s argument from reason

The famous novelist C. S. Lewis developed a fascinating argument which aimed to discredit naturalism and prove the existence of God. It is called the argument from reason. Although his argument is...

August 16, 2013

You are constantly dying

The titled claim sounds outlandish, but I hope to persuade you after I explain what I mean. We must begin this discussion by considering what it means to be a particular individual. The unique...

August 14, 2013

A novel definition of intelligent life

I suggest that all organisms be viewed as complex physical systems which process and store information. After all, all biological processes can be understood in terms of chemistry. In turn...

August 13, 2013