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January 2012

January 31, 2012

Two Debaters Enter, One Epistemology Leaves

After I outlined my best practises for debating religion, Eve Tushnet and The Ubiquitous had...

January 25, 2012

It’s Hard Out Here for a Platonist

Alex Knapp took issue with my quasi-Platonism (and possible math idolatry) over at his tech...

January 23, 2012

Futzing Around with Final Causes

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

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 16, 2012

[Feser] Stuck in the Map-Territory Gap

As promised yesterday, this is the kickoff of my analysis of and questions about Edward...

January 15, 2012

Reading a Book I’d Never Write

I've just finished Sara Miles's memoir Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion, but I don't...

January 15, 2012

Feser’s The Last Superstition [Index Post]

I ran into a Dominican at an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences event...

January 14, 2012

If you could only take 10 words to a desert island to talk about religon….

...which ones would you pick? This is not a hypothetical question. I got into a...

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 03, 2012

It’s Utilitarianism All the Way Down?

In the recent thread on human-independent morality, Ash had a question for me and Adam...

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 03, 2011

Too Sucky To Be True

It looks like my use of slang has gotten us all into philosophical trouble. When...

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...

October 2011

October 07, 2011

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Man, did I pick an auspicious time to transition to Patheos; it’s Ada Lovelace Day....

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 08, 2011

The Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means

A post on science fiction and religion? Don’t mind if I do! (And how apropos...

September 03, 2011

Sneaky Critiques

With so many reasons to oppose Rick Santorum's candidacy, I'm disappointed at the justification offered by one...

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 18, 2011

Checking my biases

Atheist to Catholic convert Jenifer Fulwiler has added a new zeroth step (“You Must be...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Playing the Consistency Game

When I posted earlier on the blogfight unleashed by Jenifer Fulwiler’s post “Five Catholic Teachings...

July 01, 2011

Natural vs Normative

I appreciate the Christians weighing in on why they oppose gay marriage and trying to...

June 2011

June 06, 2011

How Can You Believe That?

During my guest stint at Daylight Atheism, I expressed pity for Harold Camping's deluded followers...

June 01, 2011

Stemming the Knowledge Drain

Technically relevant to the content of this post I've been following in the footsteps of...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

Only Bad Catholics Go to Hell?

That's one possible consequence of the doctrine of invincible ignorance we were discussing yesterday. If...

April 20, 2011

Try it! You’ll love it!

I am notorious at school for pushing math classes on my friends. Done with your...

April 08, 2011

Where Yuan Went Wrong (Part 2)

This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies...

March 2011

March 20, 2011

God Can’t Prove Much to Puny Mortals

Over in the comment thread of last week's post on standards of proof for miracles,...

March 14, 2011

Inducing a Moral Jump Discontinuity (A thought experiment)

Tristyn of Eschatological Psychosis jumps the line by prefacing her comment on my review of...