No death and an enhanced life: Is the future transhuman?

Flowers fallen from tree

El Malecón de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

"Tech humanists say they want to align humanity and technology. But this project is based on a deep misunderstanding of the relationship between humanity and technology: namely, the fantasy that these

It is also Marx's birthday, and it's a big, fat 200th birthday. Here is my roundup of free online resources on Marx for enjoying his work:

I did a roundup of the resources in my database on Søren Kierkegaard - the father of Existentialism well before it had a name who thought deeply about existential anxiety or angst - for his birthday and

Hello friends, join me in this week's philosophy writing challenge if you're up for it! Guidelines for this challenge are simple: Answer the actual question asked and try to stay on topic. Try. Tell us

I'll be posting my write-up of this piece tomorrow, if you'd like to read it in advance:

Tomorrow I head back to the capital of Santo Domingo so it's my last sunset on this beach, at least for a while. Thought I'd share this gorgeous view one more time.

Virtual Reality Asserts Itself as an Art Form in Its Own Right This article seems to be a report on what is going on in the art world vis a vis the use of virtual reality and or augmented reality to produce

If your sex assignation were different that it was when you were born, would that change the essence of who you are today? This is the question with which Anthony Appiah's thought experiment on the metaphysics

I'm struck by how little philosophical thinking is being done about technology from the perspective of our human experience - that is, a phenomenological approach to philosophy of technology. That is not

Angry Salamander On Coconut Tree To Which I Tried To Tie My Hammock

Las Terrenas Beach, Samana, Dominican Republic

Cosón Bay, Samana, Dominican Republic

 The Big Questions Are Back! What Is Happiness? What Should We Do and How Should We Act? What Do We Know and How Do We

Today's sunset on the beach

In session number two of the thinkPhilosophy Podcast I talk about *Keeping A Philosophical Notebook Or Log* to go along with your philosophy reading practice. Below is a summary of what I covered in this

If I were to ask you, "Do You know how to read?," you would probably say that you certainly do know how to read! After all, you've been reading since grade school, so chances are that you are a very confident

It's been said that one person's utopia is another person's dystopia. It's also true that the image you choose to paint as your dystopia says a lot about you and what you value and fear. In my dystopia,