Welcome. I am pleased to make available, through this website, books and essays of mine, some quite recent and some not recent.

• For the full text of some essays and some books, please see the item menu provided. Items are clustered under several general heads; for most items the text is available here in full.

• For topics and titles not listed on that menu, please use the Search page.

• To convey comments or questions, which are always welcome and will receive early response, please use the Contact page.

• For exact citations, please see the curriculum vitae page.

• For permission to reprint any of these materials, or any portions of them, please write me directly. I promise to be cooperative, but nothing may be re-printed without my written permission, of course.

Two things fill the heart with always new and ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the thinking mind is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant