Mr. Mike
The Dark Tetrad
Submitted by Mr. Mike on August 31, 2024
Derivative Images Why are we evil? This short piece asks how the “Dark Tetrad” of behaviours could have evolved. The Dark Tetrad is an extended ... Read more
Hoaxes And Hilarity – April Fools’ Day
Submitted by Mr. Mike on April 1, 2024
Image by Bernd from Pixabay April Fools’ Day—occurring on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact origins ... Read more
Lifeline
Submitted by Mr. Mike on March 28, 2024
Image by Grae Dickason from Pixabay Emotional negativity is a form of intoxication. It impairs perception and judgment. The intellect becomes slave to emotion and ... Read more
The Rationality Of Emotions
Submitted by Mr. Mike on May 12, 2021
Image by Ryan McGuire from http://Pixabay.com Emotions have gotten a bad rap these days. We’re frequently told we should mistrust them, ignore them, even f**k ... Read more
The Meaning Of Meaning
Submitted by Mr. Mike on August 1, 2018
http://pixabay.com Meaning is usually taken to be something that’s intrinsic to life. Life has meaning, we assume, though the actual meaning of life may not ... Read more
Will Future Generations Find Us Especially Morally Loathsome?
Submitted by Mr. Mike on June 30, 2018
http://pixabay.com Ethical norms change. Although reading Confucius doesn't feel like encountering some wholly bizarre, alien moral system, some ethical ideas do differ dramatically over time ... Read more
The Rainmaker
Submitted by Mr. Mike on March 1, 2018
http://pixabay.com Sitting against this washed up log at the beach, I can’t recall the last time I’ve eaten. My stomach feels like it is eating ... Read more
Ethics In A Nutshell
Submitted by Mr. Mike on August 15, 2017
derivativeimages The deepest questions of philosophy are refreshingly simple. What is there? How do I know? And what should I do? We might be tempted ... Read more
The “Soul Genome” Hypothesis
Submitted by Mr. Mike on July 13, 2017
http://pixabay.com The "Soul Genome" hypothesis posits that an infant begins life with a past-life legacy embedded in the psychoplasm. With it as a foundation, the ... Read more
Fact And Truth
Submitted by Mr. Mike on January 25, 2016
Thought experiments (Gedankenexperimenten) are "facts" in the sense that they have a "real life" correlate in the form of electrochemical activity in the brain. But ... Read more
