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April 2012

April 25, 2012

Immoral Moral Law, Unnatural Nature

Squeltchtoad's Immoral Moral Law thought experiment was weird and paradoxical enough that I had a...

April 23, 2012

An Objective Immoral Moral Law

My friend Squelchtoad has posed another useful thought example up at his interblag. I'm excerpting...

April 21, 2012

“What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard”

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 19, 2012

Irrational with Respect to What?

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman draws on a lot of empirical studies where...

April 18, 2012

Quasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 16, 2012

When Do You Reject Your Intuitions?

A while ago, a commenter emailed me to ask if I could recommend any books...

April 15, 2012

Is it Maps All the Way Down?

Yesterday, I went to the Dominican House of Studies for a symposium on Creation and...

April 12, 2012

Morality in Multiple Dimensions

In college, I got into a lot of debates about moral relativism, cultural imperialism, and epistemological modesty. When we...

April 12, 2012

We Go Together / Like Essence and Telos / Doo-bop a doo-bee doo

Here's Adam of Daylight Atheism's reply to the questions I asked him yesterday about the...

April 11, 2012

Human-Independent Morality

Adam Lee of Daylight Atheism recently reran an essay he wrote in response to Peter Hitchens ("Atheists...

April 04, 2012

Sin isn’t Newtonian

(Part two of two on the apologetics offered by missionaries outside the Reason Rally) In...

April 04, 2012

Evangelicals Pitching Skepticism?

(Part one of two on the apologetics offered by missionaries outside the Reason Rally) I...

April 03, 2012

Infinite Regress is a Slippery Slope

A friend of mine, who blogs sporadically as Squelchtoad, had a great response to the...

April 02, 2012

The Black Box Brain Problem

If I found a black box with a number keypad and a printer tape, I...

April 02, 2012

If only I weren’t determined to fight about free will!

The Chronicle of Higher Education is holding an essay symposium on Free Will and I...

April 01, 2012

Upon this ROC I will build…

I was considering writing an April Fools day post, but life's too short to not...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

How Much Good Does Atheism Do?

In one of my Reason Rally posts, I talked about why atheists feel such an...

March 29, 2012

Making Book on God

A reader of Marginal Revolution posed a theological thought experiment this week, and a friend...

March 16, 2012

Caution! Philosophy in Progress.