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October 2012

October 19, 2012

Objective Morality and Hard to Get at Truths

Bob Seidensticker has been checking out C.S. Lewis, and he's put up a post explaining...

October 06, 2012

Get in the Game

Eli of Rust Belt Philosophy has expanded his critique of the LARPing exercise, and I...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

What are your utils denominated in?

In the comment threads for the "Hey! I didn't say Science Says!" post, there...

September 19, 2012

“Hey! I didn’t say ‘Science Says'”

Helen Rittelmeyer is blogging and writing again. She just contributed to the American Spectator's Youth Symposium,...

September 12, 2012

How Big a Hit are You Willing to Take?

As you may recall, concussions in football is one of my hobbyhorses. So of course...

September 11, 2012

Is Sufficiently Compressed Thinking Indistinguishable from Magical Thinking?

Andrew Brown is in The Guardian claiming any sufficiently interesting theory of the world is...

September 07, 2012

A Mormon Perspective on Interrogating Emotions

It's a guest post by Michael Haycock! He blogs aperiodically at Not a Tame Lion,...

September 07, 2012

The Epistemological Weight of Warm Fuzzies

I was reading an On the Square post from a Mormon to Catholic convert and...

September 04, 2012

That Moment We Saw You For What You Really Are

The "Welcome to JT" thread has digressed into a number of interesting discussions (parental authority...

September 03, 2012

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant

I received a comped reviewer's copy of Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

The Virtue of an Almost Right Solution

Earlier today, in my final Sondheim post, I was writing in praise of the grotesque....

August 25, 2012

What do natural lawyers chase instead of ambulances?

Buried in the (correct) thread for discussing meta-questions about that gargantuan thread on natural law,...

August 23, 2012

Here there be Dragons [Reply to JT]

So, JT asked: 3. You undoubtedly have a logical proof of some sort for...

August 22, 2012

Who Gets to Give the Courtier’s Reply?

How fortuitous that the same day I asked people to trust me and do the reading, Yvain...

August 20, 2012

This Atheist Activism Failure Might Actually be a Win for Skepticism

Over at Friendly Atheist, Paul Fidalgo of the Center for Inquiry has posted an open...

August 18, 2012

“Bobby, you’ve been looking peculiar”

After the song above, Amy can't decide whether to go through with her wedding, and...

August 17, 2012

The Danger of Cheap Shots

I was chatting with some Catholic friends, and (as happens more and more frequently as...

August 09, 2012

A reading from Henry VI, Part 2 4:2:73

Yes, in context, the line has the opposite sentiment to most of the people quoting...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

If only someone had said this to Stoic!Teenaged!Leah

I'm still at Rationality Camp, and I've noticed that a subset of classes all fall into a...

July 24, 2012

Play Along with Rationality Camp at Home!

While you're all missing me, there are three games you might want to try that...

July 23, 2012

Head to Head with Hemant Mehta

Last week, I got to do an interview/argument with fellow Patheos blogger and Friendly Atheist...

July 04, 2012

Happy Higgs Day!

Today, all over America (land of science enthusiasts) fireworks will be set off in remembrance of the...

July 03, 2012

“Ethics is Like Physics” is total me-linkbait

The power is trickling back on. Well, for now at any rate. There's still a...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Too Simple Skepticism

Over at Bitchspot, a blogger named Cephus has been fisking my About Me section (which...

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 15, 2012

More Turing Strategies and Reflections

Jacob of The Thoughtful Atheist and Matt of Soul Sprawl have both written up their...

June 11, 2012

It’s Teleology All the Way Down (Blogathon 4/12)

This post is number four of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

LessWrong’s cutting checks for epistemology drills

If you're casting around for something to do while you finish voting in the Atheist...

May 07, 2012

Have Humans ‘Won’ Evolution?

In the comments of my last post on evolution and the source of moral law,...

May 04, 2012

Scared of Darwin for All the Wrong Reasons

UPDATE: I've expanded a response to a commenter in a new post: "Have Humans 'Won'...