"I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat," American philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote in his classic 1974 essay, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" And "yet," Nagel said, "if I try to imagine this, I am restricted by the resources of my own mind, a ...
On (My) Work
What is work? A question that of course many walking before me have asked. And while I still haven’t found the best "working" definition for myself yet, the writing 'On Work' by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran may come c ...
(Non-)material(istic) shifts in science and philosophy
Richard Dawkins, one of the prominent leaders of the 'no purpose, no design' hypothesis, views the cosmos acting with "blind, pitiless indifference." Enters Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, philosopher of science and author of books like "Darwin's Doubt: The Ex ...