Eco, Ego, Eros
Tam Hunt is trained as a lawyer and biologist and has studied philosophy for decades. He is a renewable energy consultant and lawyer by day, and avid reader by night. He also teaches part-time at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. He lives in Santa Barbara, plays tennis, and strums a guitar occasionally.
In Defense of Philosophy
Can Science Now Answer the Most Essential of Philosophical Questions?
Philosophy has come under attack by various scientists in recent years, generally because, well, they just don’t get it. Read story.
Seeking the Divine
Spirituality in the Information Age
“Spiritual but not religious” has become cliché because it’s true – we are increasingly rejecting organized religion in favor of a more authentic and individualized spirituality. The fastest-growing religious movement seems to be that of no religion. Read story.
On Ends and Endings
Sexual Selection and Evolution
The increasing power to shape our own evolution is part of the same evolutionary process that has always been present, but it has taken a huge jump in rapidity with the advent of modern technology. Read story.
On Time and Free Will
What Does Physics Teach Us About Determinism?
What does physics have to teach us about determinism? Read story.
The Mirror of the World
Toward a Post-Modern Environmentalism
Environmentalism is generally viewed as the movement designed to help protect and preserve the natural world around us, distinct from the artificial world of homes, neighborhoods, and cities. Read story.
Evolutionary Spirituality
Andrew Cohen Talks About God
Andrew Cohen. a spiritual teacher based in Massachusetts, talks about the evolution of God in the first of an occasional series of interview with thought leaders in many different fields. Read story.
On Relativity
Einstein for Dummies
Neutrinos, the most ghostly particles we know of, are hitting far above their weight class. Read story.
The Summit
The Anatomy of God, Part II
What is the nature of God? How is it revealed to human perception? Read story.
The Source
The Anatomy of God, Part I
Even if we accept the ground of being as without beginning and without end (presumably), we can never rule out the possibility that the ground itself evolves. Read story.
On Self and Soul
Permanent, Semi-Permanent, or None of the Above?
As with the “vacuum” of modern physics, Buddha’s "emptiness," now part of many Buddhist schools of thought, is not really empty. It is, in fact, everything. Read story.
A Science of Beauty, Part II
Aesthetic Appreciation Exists Throughout Nature
The structure, the form, the patterns we see throughout nature are in fact the manifestation of appreciation, of beauty, by many levels (hierarchies) of non-human minds. Read story.
Is It Art?
A Science of Beauty, Part I
Art has been around for as long as humans have been around and it seems that thinking about art—the philosophy of art—has been too. Read story.
Paths to Immortality
Biological, Robotic, Cosmic ...
Who wouldn’t want to live forever? Who would? This is largely an academic debate for now, but perhaps not for long. Read story.
On Lucifer
Things We Don't Like
Why is there evil? Is there evil? Read story.
On Explanations
Absent-Minded Science, Part X
Tigger and Eeyore Contemplate Explanation Read story.
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