Welcome

I'm writer and philosopher Ed Gibney, and this is a site for my work. Like many of my favourite authors*, I write fiction to illustrate and explore the philosophical beliefs I hold. This worldview is best contained within a school of thought called evolutionary philosophy and it is one that I hope to clarify and refine here. To anyone familiar with the fields of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary linguistics, etc., this term is clear—evolutionary philosophy examines findings from the study of our shared evolutionary history and applies them to the shared eternal questions we ask in philosophy. While there are many thinkers who do this, there are surprisingly few, if any, who use this exact label for their thinking. I hope that changes soon. In the meantime, I see evphil.com as:

  1. An attempt to clarify ideas within a new school of philosophy
  2. A means to expose those ideas to competition, cooperation, variation, and selection—i.e. to evolution itself
  3. A platform to share fiction and non-fiction works that expound upon this collection of ideas
Thank you for very much for stopping by. Please click around....read....write....buy....share....learn....teach....evolve your philosophy....and mine.
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The non-fiction book that started this.
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My most important idea, published.
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First novel — a political fable.
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Short stories about virtues.
* In case you were wondering, the fiction authors that inspire me most include: Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Upton Sinclair, Ayn Rand, Iris Murdoch, Robert Pirsig, Rebecca Goldstein, Irvin Yalom, Daniel Quinn, and others like them.

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