This post shall be my last post to this blog. After today, I will be blogging on my new web site, http://brendanmyers.netRead more... )

News:
In the Summer 2010, I will be teaching a new online course: Nietzsche and Paganism. Here's the info ( Read more... )

After teaching two lectures on Libertarianism to the students of my Theories of Social Justice class, with John Hospers' "Libertarian Manifesto" as my text, I could not help but be reminded of these words from Rousseau:

"It is reason that engenders amour-propre, and reflection that confirms it: it is reason which turns man's mind back upon itself ( Read more... )

May I welcome all of you to the completely re-designed, refreshed edition of Brendanmyers.netThe new site restores some of the popular parts of the old wildideas.net site which were missing: a guide to Druidry and Celtic Spirituality, for instance. It also adds some new features, such as a photo gallery, and a public forum ( Read more... )

Dear readers of my books, and friends,

Should I divide the book I'm working on in half, ( again!) such that the (mostly) complete first nine chapters may be released sooner? Then the rest would be published separately, perhaps three years from now. (Let's call this the short book optionOr ( Read more... )

Recently, I was asked, "As a professor of ethics, what moral duties might people owe to zombies ( Read more... )

For the last two years or so, I have very rarely played my guitar ( Read more... )

In the six years since my first book was published, I have occasionally provoked small controversies in the pagan community. The mere fact that I study and teach ethics in the pagan community is controversial enough, aside from any of the things I actually say: for as most pagans are surely aware, there is a large and influential sector of the ( Read more... )

A friend of mine down in London Ontario, who is the branch manager of a paralegal company, recently drew my attention to section 365 of the Criminal Code of Canada. This is the section which deals with the practice of witchcraft. It reads as follows:

365. Every one who fraudulently ( Read more... )

It's March Break at my new college ( Read more... )