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CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Center For Inquiry has odd taste in events---why a political scientist to dissect New Atheism, and a miniscule promotion campaign that only attracted CFI members and a few f… -
Orthogonal versus independent: The linear algebra of truth
Philosophers are quite promiscuous in their usage of the word "orthogonal".For instance: Daniel Dennett writes in Freedom Evolves that free will and determinism are orthogonal. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy art… -
Science is far too awesome to be entrusted to the unenthusiastic.
It always disappoints me when I attenda lecture about scientific topics that are actually endlesslyfascinating and full of depth and beauty, delivered as if they weredry and mechanical pebble-counting. This does a dee… -
I need no further reminders of my mortality.
[JD 2455103.21] Nor is there any justice in the livesthat chance and malice take. Anna List, 17; Jared Zumbrun, 18. Eachbrilliant, creative, kind—I saw so much of me in them, and mostlythe best parts of me. One murde… -
What NOMA and the Strong Programme have in common
[Julian date 2455082.] As many of my readers already know, Iam a proponent of something I call "methodological realism";this philosophy entails the simple principle that we should act asif the world is as wereally th… -
Why "it's a metaphor" is not an answer
If you are an atheist, and you haveever tried to argue with religious people, no doubt you've heard thisclaim: "Of course it isn't really true; it's a story, ametaphor." This is meant to diffuse any empirical, logical… -
Not really a modernist---but certainly not a postmodernist
First of all, let me say that there is legitimacy in postmodern critiques of epistemology. The world is not exactly as we believe it to be---it is queerer than we suppose, and perhaps even queerer than we can suppose. Pe… -
The fundamental question all theists must answer
In planning my trip to the CreationMuseum, trying to think up what I could say to someone so thoroughlyentrenched in a religious worldview that would even get close topersuading them to reconsider the importance of sc… -
Pascal's real Wager
As I've discussed earlier, Pascal'sWager as stated doesn't really make sense, for several reasons. Thegreatest of these, I think, is the fact that the existence of God isa single-play game, and as such we are wrong to… -
The permissible/allowable distinction and hate speech
There is a general confusion among manyliberals (I mean "liberals" in both the philosophical senseof believing in the moral importance of personal liberty, and thepolitical sense of supporting policies that tend to …
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Virulent Senioritis
This has not been a good semester for me. I suffer... -
CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Cen... -
A truly excellent analysis of theology
I couldn't have said it better myself, so read it ...
