William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since that time, he has been teaching philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California.  He is the author of Cynical Maxims and Marginalia (iUniverse, 2007). He has published extensively in specialist publications, including Sorites, Ars Disputandi, International Journal of Philosophical Practice, Quodlibet, Disputatio and Teorema.

The humble agnostic shrugs

Agnosticism, properly understood, and not atheism, represents the sceptical attitude, and also the most rationally justified position with respect to the question of the existence of God (or gods) as the ultimate creator(s) and/or designer(s) of our universe. 

Chigurh’s coin

The film seems to offer a portrait of a man with robust, though imperfect, control over external events and persons that he encounters, but leaves an ambiguous accounting of that same man’s control over his own internal drives and actions.