My short story Precognition–my first paid publication–has been republished at Curious Fictions! https://curiousfictions.com/stories/717-alex-drozd-precognition I have more short fiction to come with Curious Fictions soon. Enjoy! -AD
Reblog: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars When Philip K Dick first saw the script for Bladerunner, the film adaption of his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, he wasn’t too happy. In an interview with Rod Sterling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, he even professed […]…
Analysis & Review: Cat’s Cradle
My quantum mechanics assignment got published!
You can read the paper (with all math removed and more emphasis on the philosophy stuff) here. This was based off of the paper I wrote for my quantum mechanics class to satisfy my writing requirements during my last semester at the University of Alabama. Little did my professor know, I was using him as…
Published Column on Sci Phi Journal
I’ve become a regular contributor to Sci Phi Journal and would like to share my column’s first piece: Revisiting Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. In the article, I examine the repercussions of Plato’s “benevolent dictator,” advocated for in The Republic, and portrayed in one of Asimov’s most widely known works. If you’re a fan of philosophy and…
Precognition – First Short Story Publication!
The story has been published through Daily Science Fiction here: http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/nanotech/alex-drozd/precognition My inspirations for this story come from my own philosophical musings about the Book of Life, a thought experiment advanced by free will advocates in rejection of determinism, one that affords a paradox yet to be solved in philosophy. I find it strange that…
On Reverse Racism
To accost instances of reverse racism–such as when a white person is told that they cannot experience discrimination because of the color of their skin–is consistent with egalitarian principles. But I suspect that these points are sometimes not made in reference to the general idea of egalitarianism, but rather with respect to the ongoing debate about…
Utilitarianism
In my utilitarianist view, ethics is most often about minimizing damage, not avoiding it. In most situations avoiding damage is impossible, and being that inaction is just as much of a decision as action–in that it brings about a consequence–the moral decision is to do something, and for that something to take into consideration the net…
Corruption, a Societal Necessity
All ideas discussed in this post are discussed with only their efficacy as a function in mind. Whether or not the ideas advanced are morally permissible, by whichever system of ethics you have chosen to adopt, is not the concern of this post. The notion of the social contract gives us an understanding of the…
On the Arts
The creator of an art has the sole right to profit from that art, but I do not think it can be said that the creator of said art has the right to that art. Art belongs to its appreciators, and could not exist if it were not for the liberal freedoms entailed in the…
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