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February 2012

February 28, 2012

Alain de Botton Gets it Backwards

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 26, 2012

‘Atheist Lent’ and False Unity

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I'm one of...

February 02, 2012

Please Vote For Me

About.com is accepting nominations for their Reader's Choice Awards, and there is a category for...

February 01, 2012

Radical Skepticism is Delusional

I had a lovely weekend arguing with undergraduates and alumni at my debating group's annual...

January 2012

January 21, 2012

Free Will and Timeless Observers

After reading my post on decidedly undivine First Causes, one commenter had a question about...

January 20, 2012

Three First Causes I Don’t Pray To

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of...

January 12, 2012

What’s Wrong with my Atheism?

I mentioned in a recent post on moral philosophy that, although I understand why Christians...

January 10, 2012

In Ira Veritas?

Atheist blogger Greta Christina is taking D.J. Grothe (president of the James Randi Educational Foundation)...

January 05, 2012

What Makes a Great Atheist?

There's a controversy brewing over Staks Rosch's candidates for Atheist of the Year at the...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

Human Approximations of Morality

Adam Lee, author of Daylight Atheism, has just gotten into an argument with Peter Hitchens...

December 28, 2011

Picking the Boring Fight

[UPDATE: I've just started a hopefully non-boring fight with a couple Dominicans reading Edward Feser's...

December 23, 2011

7 Hitch Takes (12/23/11)

--- 1 --- --- 2 --- I haven't read Hitchens's god is Not Great (though...

December 20, 2011

Tuesday is Science Section Day

Sorry for the delay in posting. I've been wrapped up finishing the final exams/programming assignments...

December 14, 2011

Church and State: Two Disputedly-Valued Things that Go Terribly Together

Ok, here comes part two of my reply to Mark Shea's post about New Atheism's...

December 13, 2011

Tis the Season for Church-State Lawsuits!

I think Mark Shea meant to give me a compliment, but if you read his...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

What We Can’t Claim Credit For

In light of the two most recent posts (on atheism's weakness as philosophical movement and...

November 29, 2011

It’s a Fair Cop, Douthat

In a response to a lot of the debate that followed Jennifer Fulwiler's conversion story...

November 28, 2011

Is Atheism Ever Not Boring?

R. Joseph Hoffman, a professor at the New England Conservatory and blogger at The New...

November 23, 2011

Feser’s Typology of Atheism (Part 2)

Today, I'm returning to Edward Feser's typology of atheism. Monday, I took a look at...

November 21, 2011

Feser’s Typology of Atheism (Part 1)

Edward Feser, a professor at Pasadena City College has set out to create a typology...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

High Octane Ritual

Yesterday I made a case for authority among atheists and today I’m addressing ritual without...

October 19, 2011

Atheism, Anarchism, and Authority

Yesterday, a bunch of atheists tried to talk about the future of atheist communities on...

September 2011

September 14, 2011

Dualism and Descartes’s Demon

At the National Catholic Register, Frank Cronin has written a post titled, “Atheism, Quidditch, and...

September 07, 2011

On Getting Out of the Religion Game

A week or so ago, Luke Muehlhauser of Common Sense Atheism surprised the atheist blogosphere...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

High Energy Theoretical Ethics

Joel Marks has written an essay for The New York Times Opinionator page titled "Confessions...

August 16, 2011

The Merits of the WTC Cross Suit

My last post about American Atheists's lawsuit over the World Trade Center cross has bifurcated...

August 09, 2011

Serve a Paper and Sue Me

I wasn't planning to post about the the suit American Atheists has filed to prevent...

August 01, 2011

The ‘Obvious’ Consequence

In my last two posts about Jenifer Fulwiler’s controversial piece for the National Catholic...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

And You Never Were a Scotsman!

Jenifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary wrote a piece for the National Catholic Register ("5 Catholic...

July 06, 2011

In the Company of Men

First things first, I want to give credit to Hemant Mehta who originally posted on...