Philosophy - The Work of Eric Robert Morse

The Case for Being Human

With the rise of AI and the imminent Singularity, it’s a good time to ask whether human beings matter anymore.

If you ask average Americans what they most like about their country, they might well tell you ‘Diversity’. If you ask them what they find

There is a rule that you should never talk about politics or religion in polite company. I’ve never been a fan. What else is worth

In a recent homily, my priest said that the problem with marriages these days is the lack of self-gift. “Nobody knows how to say ‘No’

When the soon-to-be-president Trump called a CNN reporter ‘fake news’ to his face, it was both entertaining and ironic. First of all, it was great

I was at college the first time I had heard about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. So, naturally, I was a skeptic. It was

A chapter from the 2014 release, Psychonomics: How Modern Science Aims to Conquer the Mind and How the Mind Prevails. On a cool summer evening

Recently, the people at Emotional Intelligence 2.0 posted about the 9 Things Successful People Won’t Do. As could be expected, one of the items was

August 2008 After having read Jacques Barzun’s summa thirteen times, I have concluded that this book is not really 912 pages long as it appears

April 2004 To be a prude is nothing admirable these days. Even those who consider themselves to be prudes admit it only reluctantly. But who