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Bridging the Metaphysical Divide: How Atheist and Christian Philosophers Transcended Culture War
In an era dominated by knee-jerk polarization and online echo chambers, public discourse often feels like a zero-sum war of attrition. Nowhere does this seem more pronounced than in debates over life’s ultimate questions: Does God exist? Are human beings biological machines, or created spirits? Is the cosmos governed by blind physical laws, or directed…
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Survival of the Cynical: Marilynne Robinson on Darwinism as Ideology
When we discuss evolution in modern discourse, we usually assume we are standing on the firm ground of objective biology. We imagine a neutral scientific process: organisms inherit physical traits, face selective environmental pressures, and those possessing advantageous mutations survive to pass their genetic material to subsequent generations. This empirical model of biological adaptation over…
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A Note to Philosophy Now Readers
If you caught my letter in Issue 175 of Philosophy Now—responding to Jimmy Alfonso Licon’s piece on moral intuitions—thanks for taking the time to look up the site! In that note, I wanted to push past the usual stalemate we get stuck in with potential-futures arguments. Licon rightly observes that if we resist comparing a…