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April 2012

April 30, 2012

It’s Hard for Me to Hear You Over the Sound of Your Nazi Analogies

The "Let's Talk About How to Have Reasonable Discussions about Religion" post has over a...

April 29, 2012

Beware of [YA Dystopias] Bearing Gifts?

This post contains vague spoilers for the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm speaking in generalities about...

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 19, 2012

Irrational with Respect to What?

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

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 09, 2012

So how did that Lent stuff work out?

Before Lent began, I committed to two behavior changes: one to curb a vice, the...

April 07, 2012

Fixing my Fights

The most surreal part of attending the Reason Rally and the American Atheists conference happened...

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...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Is Civil Marriage a Right?

Last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that same-sex marriage is not a...

March 30, 2012

7 Quick Takes (3/30/12)

--- 1 --- If you're coming here from Conversion Diary, I really recommend you take...

March 16, 2012

Caution! Philosophy in Progress.