Philosophy routinely finds itself charting a course between two seemingly irreconcilable positions, a middle way between extremes. The first update in...

In this second essay in the Trump to Biden series, I address the deep challenges facing the US, the illnesses of which the transition was a symptom.

From Trump to Biden: A Brief History of the Immediate Past. The first in a five part series.

The 21st century is likely to be the most eventful century in human history. This coming decade will set many of its long-term trends and determine...

We spend days, months, even years looking for answers. People who find the answer are celebrated as geniuses, prophets and inventors. The world beats...

There’s just one continuum from the neural to the social. That’s just for starters: give it time and the continuum will go all the way from cells to c...

Can we say something new about caste as a system? How has it changed as a result of being fully absorbed within the capitalist system?

We take worlds for granted. Science reduces them; literature shrinks them and philosophy ignores them. And yet, without the world we would be nothing....

Horizontal epistemology is the norm in the age of big data. It's not enough to perform one experiment but to have uniform standards for a family of ex...

Why stick to linear arguments thick with text? Can we make sense of the world by skipping from word to song to figure? Why not connect the new when th...

Every era of quickening change has its existential worries, when solid ground becomes quicksand. Here I use 'demons' to probe the shifting ground of k...