Is Miss Brill an Eremofetishist?
A woman sits on a park bench on a radiant Sunday afternoon. Despite the fine weather (“the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light…
A Response to John Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism: Adam’s Progress (Part III)
John Gray is one of those rare philosophers who has achieved popular success, a success he surely owes at least in part to the publicity provided by…
A Response to John Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism: The Relativist and the Missionary (Part II)
Late in his most recent book, Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray quotes Schopenhauer identifying what he sees as a major problem for Christian apologetics: “A religion…
A Response to John Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism: Gray Against Gray (Part I)
John Gray has come a long way. One might even say he’s made progress. Once a sympathetic interpreter of Mill and Hayek, his devotion to understanding classical…
Whose Artifice? Which Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since IBM’s DeepBlue defeated chess master Gary Kasparov (in suspicious circumstances, on its second attempt) in 1997. Our most advanced…