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July 2016

July 13, 2016

Rational Faith: More working hypothesis than logical proof

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason....

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Life Lessons that Can’t be Taught at College’s Scale

In Ethika Politika, Margaret Blume explains why she's preferred her studies at Notre Dame to her...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Books that Change the Way You Think [Radio Readings]

You can listen to “Fights in Good Faith,” my weekly radio program, streaming today at 5pm ET and...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Your religion… is it bigger than a breadbox?

I've been meaning for a while to highlight an interesting project that Christian H has...

December 15, 2014

Filing Down the Sharp Edges of Failure [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Mind Continuing this Argument in a Counterfactual World?

Cass Sunstein is mounting a defense of historical counterfactuals in The New Republic. At their simplest...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

Of Morality and Mandelbrot [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

May 2014

May 17, 2014

A Semi-Practical Approach to Kant

Over at Slate Star Codex, Scott is discussing my first philosophical love: Immanuel Kant. He...

May 14, 2014

Put Up Your Ideological Dukes!

Earlier this week, Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, published a good op-ed on...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

Who Needs Literature for Problem Solving?

When I was watching the State of the Union last week, one of the lines...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Sam Harris Throws Down His Gauntlet

Ok, probably not this gauntlet Sam Harris, one of the 'Four Horsemen' of New Atheism, has...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

How much should you trust your empathy?

Recently, in The New Yorker, psychologist Paul Bloom took a shot at the idea that...

June 18, 2013

Learning by Perturbation

Last week, I wrote two blog posts about the danger of breaking promises and the...

June 04, 2013

Modern Stoicism – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A number of my friends have gotten more interested in Stoicism of late and have...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

An Apologia for Tentavism

I tend to rag on postmodernism leading to relativism, so, to see a much more...

May 01, 2013

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

There's always been more fiction than explicit philosophy on this blog and, in C.S. Lewis's Of...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

The rule of my heart is mine! And no other’s!

In the Patheos Hindu channel, Ambaa gives her perspective on Jedis and gnosticism, inspired by...

April 22, 2013

“You’re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody”

In yesterday's post, I talked about the unenviable invulnerability of indifference, and, it so happened...

April 20, 2013

What Good is Sitting Alone at Your Desk?

In The Washington Post, Elsa Walsh takes issue with Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. Walsh thinks Sandburg's...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Would you rather be wrong than boring?

In a post titled "The sad, sad tale of the philosophical meta-game" Eli of Rust...

March 13, 2013

Staring Doubts in the Face

Before I left DC to start my new job, I arranged a The Great Divorce bookclub with...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Darren the Humanist Explains it All to You

This is a guest post, prompted my plea to hear more about how Humanists ground...

January 10, 2013

Straight from the Humanist’s Mouth

James Croft and Vlad Chituc have both continued to contribute to the discussion of what...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Up for a Quest?

Scott/Yvain has previously written a truly delightful Dungeons and Discourses game (inspired by these two...

December 11, 2012

“Give Us More To See”

Yesterday, I used Georges Seurat (as imagined by Stephen Sondheim in Sunday in the Park with...

December 06, 2012

Can you Cyrano de Bergerac your moral philosophy?

Yesterday, I linked to Luke Muelhauser's commentary on the inability of philosophers to come to...

December 05, 2012

The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Philosophers

I know there are some rumblings in yesterday's thread about sin, judgment, and necessity about...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

The theologians Chris Hallquist doesn’t believe in

Chris Hallquist (who blogs in the Patheos Atheist channel as the Uncredible Hallq) is in...

November 24, 2012

The Man is Father of the Monster

When I saw the National Theatre’s production of Frankenstein, I thought there were two somewhat...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Bob, can I interest you in Transhumanism?

Bob Seidensticker has looked over my recent post on objective morality and hard to get...