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June 2012

June 20, 2012

The (Epistemic) Floor is Made of Lava

I've been trying to be dilligent about following the trackbacks to people who have been...

June 19, 2012

Let me set some priorities

Ok, so the fact that it took me the entire day on Saturday to write...

June 18, 2012

Responding to the “What are you thinking?” comments

Now that the news has gone up on some of the other atheist blogs, some...

June 18, 2012

Doing Comment Triage [check back for updates]

I really appreciate all the warm messages of support that I'm getting in the announcement...

June 18, 2012

This is my last post for the Patheos Atheist Portal

Update: I'm starting to work through the comments section and respond here. For several years,...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

Telling Better Deconversion Stories

A while ago, Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist had a post contrasting atheist deconversion stories with Christian...

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Epistemology for Time-Travelers

I've been mulling over a weird thought-experiment, and I'd be really interested in your intuitions....

January 2012

January 22, 2012

Lewis Trounces Freud

I've already blogged once about reading Freud's Last Session, a two person play that is...

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...

November 2011

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...

August 2011

August 04, 2011

Turing Test Easter Egg

Contestants in the Ideological Turing Test adopted a lot of different strategies, but I don’t...

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...

June 2011

June 25, 2011

The Threat that Can’t be Beat

In my "Pugilist in Good Faith" post, I explained why I didn't see a...

February 2011

February 20, 2011

Ethics Case Study #2: Senior Gift

The last post I wrote about parts of my ethics that my friends label as...

February 16, 2011

Case Study in my Ethics/Metaphysics

Yesterday, I posted an adaptation of a speech I gave at Yale and promised to...

February 15, 2011

Prep for a Case Study in Christian Thought

When people read my "Testing the Truth-Telling Thing" post in my Chesterton series, the first...

January 2011

January 15, 2011

Other Thoughts on Prayer

The pitch that prayer can change anyone's life, if you give it a try,...

December 2010

December 31, 2010

7 Quick Takes (12/31/10)

Happy New Year's Eve! I'll still have a couple of posts going up this weekend,...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: Euclid and Utili-Christians

This post is one in a series on why I do not believe in Christianity....

September 29, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: A History Mystery

This post is one in a series of reasons I don't believe in Christianity. You...

September 28, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: Unconvincing Conversions

This is the first in a series of posts about why I don't believe in...

September 27, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe (Series Index)

I've used this blog to pick at some parts of religion that I find...