A couple of months ago, my friend Isaac Morehouse asked me to talk about the philosophy of mathematics and why I consi...
What does scientific progress look like? Is it steady progress, getting ever closer to the truth?
What about cases whe...
A critical thinker must have the ability to zoom in and zoom out – to hyper-focus on cause and effect and to see how t...
Libertarians like myself tend to focus on the abuse of power hierarchies. The existence of a "ruling class" makes most of us uneasy. However, might these sociological struc...
I’ve become persuaded by a version of Platonism. The universe seems to be composed of concrete and abstract things, and the abstract things seem to exist separate from our ...