Writings Page

Here you can find some of the things I've written in the past. For my academic research work, see my projects page. I don't do much (if any) writing "for fun," so most of these have come about as a result of some school assignment or other. I trust you'll find at least one of the items worth reading.

Some of my musings that came about as a result of reading Letter to a Christian Nation, which espouses a worldview quite different from my own and was written by an atheist who hopes to see all religion abolished.
Universal Moral Standards

A couple documents from a cognitive science course I took in 2006.
Analysis of Searle's Chinese Room Thought Experiment
Connectionism vs. Symbolic Architecture (Term Paper)

Some forum discussions that I participated in during a hybrid (online/on-campus) physiological psychology class in 2005. Some of my better-thought-out arguments are found buried in these posts, if I do say so myself.
Creation vs Evolution Discussion Thread 1
Creation vs Evolution Discussion Thread 1
Stem Cell Research Discussion Thread 1
Stem Cell Research Discussion Thread 2

English Composition - Not my favorite class, but it forced me to write in some ways I probably wouldn't have previously touched with a ten-foot pole.
Riding the Rollercoaster
Kids - Today's or Yesterday's (Comparing two versions of Cheaper by the Dozen)
Peremptory Strikes and Picking a Jury (Research Paper)

There were a couple things I wrote before that may be worth posting, though the quality of writing drops off steeply looking back much farther.