• Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes

    Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes- a free ebook examining contemporary cosmology and theology from a philosophical perspective. Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes Read more

  • India, China and Allocation of Resources

    I read history of the Soviet Union in a college course. In my opinion Marxism-Leninism was a revolutionary philosophy best suited for revolting against royalty and rich oppressors. it was… Read more

  • If US Patents are Too Expensive, File in China?

    U.S. Patent registration may cost between five and twenty thousand dollars preventing many ordinary people from filing a patent application for an invention. Apparently a patent in China is far… Read more

  • Trivia About the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

    I believe Russell’s historical analysis was way off. Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 brought about the rise of Constantinople and the Eastern… Read more

  • Ethics Needn’t Be Inferred from the Higgs Field

    Hume’s is/ought problem of an inability to translate descriptive into prescriptive statements wasn’t terribly interesting to me when first I read it some decades ago. The thought experience/reality-for-itself gap is… Read more

  • Trump-Zelensky Cease-Fire is a Way to Protract the Ukraine War

    President Trump seems as if he is moving closer toward the Von Biden point of view of the Ukraine conflict. That is he has made a cease-fire proposal entirely advantageous… Read more

  • Determinism and Teleology

    Plainly one may present numerous paradigms for deterministic systems without teleology. There is no necessary relation between a deterministic system and purpose of the system (or is there). Do some… Read more

  • Value Systems and Morality

    Axiology has a plethora of products. Yet if morality describes what people actually do regarding behavioral norms, wicked behavior counts as much as ideal systems designed by philosophers. The first… Read more

  • When Scientists Attack Faith

    Everyone is learning. Honest inquires aren’t stupid. Science means knowledge. Materials science has a lot of investments and is monetarily rewarding and protected and defended like any vested business. It… Read more

  • Poland Seeks Nuke Weapons and 1/2 Million Soldiers

    European leaders are swelling up to rearm better than ever in their history. That generally leads to general wars. The dynamics of power lead imbecilic leaders to bring the world… Read more

  • Starlink Satellites May Crap Up the Stratosphere

    Elon  Musk’s plan to place 42,000 Starlink satellites above the Earth present a danger when making reentry for destruction by releasing aluminum oxide that will reach the stratosphere. So it… Read more

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