McTaggart and Prior — “I believe that time is unreal.’ But I do so for reasons which are not, I think, employed by any of the philosophers whom I have mentioned, and I propose to explain my reasons in this paper,” (Mctaggart 1908, 457) Most everyone accept that time is real. McTaggart famously took…

Supra-causal Model of Genetics James Madole and Kathryn Harden, recently authored a paper in Behavioral Brain Sciences[3] that reveals what I long suspected one of her projects to be: to separate certain researchers in the genetics community out from the rest as researchers who believe genes are supra-causal (basically another word for determinist). This…

The Evening Redness in the West — The Past that was and the Past that was not “Man’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.” Blood Meridian is a historical fiction by Cormac McCarthy that traces the bloody etchings of a historical gang, the Glanton gang. While much of the book is fabricated fictions for McCarthy to craft…

The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Introduction Karl Popper was a Philosopher of Science who rejected many popular Positivist positions, positions which actually seemed transient due to the rapid advancement of 20th century science. Popper’s main gripes with the positivist position are mainly three fold. The Positivist position can be described for in the following ways…

Modelling One’s Self After God Existential First Principles No Country for Old Men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy about promise keeping after the death of God. All of the main characters have some answer as to how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …

The Water Bearer Existential First Principles No Country for Old Men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy about promise keeping after the death of God. All of the main characters have some answer as to how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …

The Death of God and Promise Keeping with Mammon — Existential First Principles No Country for Old Men is a novel by Cormac McCarthy about promise keeping after the death of God. All of the main characters grapple with how to keep social contracts in the face of this. …

Is Pain Only in the Mind? — Overview Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason drafted the idea that space and time are inscrutably mental constructs. Pain is commonly conceived as being something that has an ontology in the senses: the sense of pain is the same as the affect. Furthermore, pain is commonly considered to be…