History of Philosophy: Tags, Improved Search, Dark Mode, and More
I’m happy to announce another batch of interface upgrades in my History of Philosophy after a year,…
History of Philosophy: Portraits, Name-Clicking, and More
This is an important moment and an important post for me. It’s not about the new philosophers…
History of Philosophy Updated
I’m proud to announce a huge upgrade for my History of Philosophy, both in content and in…
With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy
Review of With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy by Florence King Although it contains…
Gráphagos: Memetik Evrim Grafik Tasarımı Açıklar mı?
2010’da yarattığım evrimsel grafik tasarım programı Gráphagos hakkında ilk Türkçe yazımı Manifold için yazdım. Yazıda programın ayrıntılarından…
Mary the Marriageable
— There’s this girl Mary. — And? — Such a lovely girl, and she takes good care…
All Dark Inside
This is one of the best gifts I’ve received in my life, from my girlfriend, custom made…
Evolutionary Graphic Design: Gráphagos
I’m finally publishing the evolutionary graphic design program that I created in 2008–2010 as my master’s thesis…
Reinventing the Sacred
Review of Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman From…
Argument against Argument from Design
When confronted with the Argument from Design (about biology), people resort to various counter-arguments, pointing to the…
What Darwin Got Wrong
Review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry A. Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Part I: Lewontin Strikes Back (Seriously, the…
Inertialism
I am in the mood for doing some oldschool existential philosophy and I hereby define a new…
Headhunting for Consciousness
Yesterday I met David Chalmers. 19 to go. (Crick is dead.) (I guess that’s why Dennett took…
Find Out What You Are
This is a personal project that dates back to 2009; I’ve been postponing sharing it because I…
Zeros and Universes
What do you think if you notice that all the zeros in the book you’re reading have…
Biology as Ideology
Review of Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin is a leftist…
1984 as Doublethink
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs…
Dawkins vs Gould
Review of Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny I had low expectations for…
Freedom and Neurobiology
Review of Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power by John R. Searle…
Dennett’s Istanbul Talk Online!
Here it is, finally, Dan Dennett’s Istanbul talk titled “Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning” from last year….
A Well-Disposed Memeticist’s Problems With the Meme Talk
It’s been some time since I finished reading Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science…
Taking Memetics Seriously
I am currently reading Darwinizing Culture, edited by Robert Aunger. I just finished David Hull’s contribution titled…
The Story of a Clever Young Man
Since I watched Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman and fell in love with the story told by J….
