Core Concepts: (Foundational Ideas)

• What are philosophical problems?

• Philosophical Assumptions

• Reason and the Subject of Philosophy

• Reasons and Arguments

• Subject, Ego, Person

• Time and Consciousness

• Thinking and Being: Lacan versus Parmenides

Existentialism & Phenomenology:  (Human Experience and Meaning)

• Kierkegaard: The Inwardness of Existence

• Existentialism today

• Heidegger made simple

Ethics & Value Theory: (Moral Philosophy)

• Can Ethics be the First Philosophy?

• Emmanuel Levinas on Peace

History of Philosophy: (Key Thinkers and Movements)

• Plato and Aristotle

• Nietzsche: A look back

Political Theory & Ideologies: (Systems of Governance)

• • Three Perspectives on Political Theory

  • Post-Democracy?

  • Carl Schmitt on Political Power

  • Comments on Althusser

  • Aristotle's View of Politics

Economics & Social Systems: (Structures of Interaction)

• • In God we trust? Money, Debt, and Love

  • What are Markets?

Rights, Justice, & Law: (Social Structures and Power)

• • What does it mean to have rights?

  • What is characteristic about Human Rights?

  • Cicero

Global Issues & International Relations Contemporary Challenges)

• • War or Cooperation: The US-China Relationship  (Created Nov 2024))

  • Challenges of the Anthropocene

  • Which Place would you call home? Geography as Critical Theory.

Psychology & Psychoanalysis: (The Inner World)

• Humanistic Psychology

• Transference in Freud and Lacan  (Last updated Jan 10, 2025)

• Madness and Civilization, Revisited

• Religion in Freud and Lacan

• Freud's View of Religion

Religion & Spirituality: (Meaning and Transcendence)

• The Roots of Religion

• What is Zen?

• Rumi: No Room for Form

Literature & Narrative: (Stories We Tell)

• For Sale: baby shoes, never worn

• Possibility and Reality in Robert Musil

• Murderous Rage: The Story of Achilles

• The Execution of Damiens

Ecology & Environment: (The Natural World)

• Nature, Ecology, and the Environment

• The Concept of Nature

• Ecological Thinking?

Evolution & Biology: (Life's Processes)

• Darwin: Marvels of a Riverbank

Scientific Foundations: (Understanding the Universe)

• Quantum Enigma (Updated March 15, 2025)

• Foundations of modern science (Updated March 16, 2025)

• Scales of the Universe (Created 2021)

Complexity & Systems: (Interconnectedness)

• Complex Systems