When we assign preternatural forces to aberrant deeds and/or individuals we blind ourselves to the actual causes and their solutions. One of the most pervasive myths of our culture is that some…
determinism
How gender binary dogma and intolerance are products of our most pervasive beliefs about reality. I have always found transsexuals, transgendered, transvestites and other human anomalies to be pretty fascinating. For most…
I have a confession to make, one that a good number of readers will find disgusting and emetic and prevent many of them from reading further. Others, however, might relate or find…
Individual people believe that they have free will, and maybe more free will than others. Via Understanding Human: An article by Pronin & Kugler (2010) looks at our perceptions of free will,…
Introduction In 1928 a brilliant philosopher/logician from Vienna, Rudolf Carnap, published Der logische Aufbau der Welt, The Logical Structure of the World. Ten years before, Ludwig Wittgenstein had conceived his highly cryptic…