CHARLES TEW

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I answer questions on skepticism's relationship to religion, the limits of contract, and my eva...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I answer questions on immigration and whether Objectivists can believe in God, and I elaborate ...

I use a discussion between Maddox and Rucka Rucka Ali as a backboard against which to explain some metaphysical and epistemological point...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I discuss the myth of "instincts," whether Universal Basic Income is preferable to the current ...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I answer questions on the relationship between gender fluidity and individualism, the practical...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain how values are neither subjective nor intrinsic, how they neither depend on feelings,...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain how socialism fails by replacing many reasoning minds with only a few, and how it kil...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I answer questions on why Patreon wouldn't exist in a free society, what's wrong with Jordan Pe...

I use Armoured Skeptic's mistakes as a backboard to explain free will from the perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism.

Sargon failed to defend individualism, rights, and capitalism from the racist collectivism of Richard Spencer and the Alt-Right. The skep...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I lay out what Ayn Rand believed about abortion, elaborate my own view, and explain what's wron...

I discuss Thaddeus Russell's conceptual nominalism and why it's wrong from the perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism.

Parody artist Rucka Rucka Ali and I discuss Objectivism, Ayn Rand, transgenderism, Alcoholics Anonymous, addiction, the Ayn Rand Institut...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain the status of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin from a philosophical perspective. Functio...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain how the Marxist idea that capitalism produces alienation is a result of the anti-conc...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain the relationship between Ayn Rand's theory of concepts and the current clash between ...

I disentangle Sam Harris's misunderstanding of reason.

I discuss Sam Harris's misunderstanding of the basis of mathematics.

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain why the theory of self-ownership is wrong, what its consequences are, and what the tr...

In this episode of Functional Philosophy, I explain the universe. Functional Philosophy is the show in which Objectivist philosopher Char...