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March 2011

March 22, 2011

The Trap of Numbness and Self-Satisfaction

I've still been thinking about some of the questions we've been picking over in the...

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...

March 01, 2011

Necessary Responses

Yesterday's post on necessary evils drew two responses, one from Rust Belt Philosophy, one from...

February 2011

February 28, 2011

A Choice Between Evils

I’ve recovered from being sick just in time to face down three midterm exams this...

February 20, 2011

Ethics Case Study #2: Senior Gift

The last post I wrote about parts of my ethics that my friends label as...

February 16, 2011

Case Study in my Ethics/Metaphysics

Yesterday, I posted an adaptation of a speech I gave at Yale and promised to...

February 15, 2011

Prep for a Case Study in Christian Thought

When people read my "Testing the Truth-Telling Thing" post in my Chesterton series, the first...

January 2011

January 27, 2011

Submitting to Others

This is part of a series on covenant marriage, and, hopefully, it’s becoming clearer what...

January 20, 2011

Covenant Marriage Index

Some time ago, I got into a dispute about covenant marriage with my friend Stephen,...

January 10, 2011

Ethics Without Other People are Empty

I don’t understand ethical systems or teleology meant for humans that doesn’t talk about our...

January 08, 2011

Where can I find atheists arguing about ethics?

After reading “What Atheists and Republican Strategists Have in Common.” one anonymous commenter took issue...

December 2010

December 02, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Why is there Evil (Part 2)

This post is part of a series written in response to creationist Michael Egnor's Eight Questions...

November 2010

November 16, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes (Part 2)

This post is a LONG overdue response to Peter Somerville, who had some questions about...

October 2010

October 09, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes

This post is one in a series on sin and immortality. You can read the...

October 05, 2010

Opening Myself to Sin

This is the first post in a series on immorality. Posting on this topic will...

October 04, 2010

Sin and Immorality (Index Post)

Previously on this blog I've written about morality, but in a highly abstracted, mathematically-inclined way....

August 2010

August 11, 2010

Natural Moral Theory is Bunk

This is part of a series of posts on gay marriage. You can see all...

August 06, 2010

Empirics, Morality, and Rational Ignorance

Time for another go round of responses to comments on the last two posts in...

August 06, 2010

Optimized and Arbitrary (part 2)

This post is part of a series on math and morality. You can see all...

August 04, 2010

Tangled up in Blue

Thanks so much for all the comments and challenges to yesterday’s post in the Math...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

“You can’t go around building a better world for people”

For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This...

July 12, 2010

“Here I Am, Dressing up as Christ”

C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity was the first apologetic work I read, and two elements...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

“Only animals can’t help what they are”

For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This...

June 23, 2010

“People as things, that’s where it starts.”

For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This...

June 16, 2010

“It’d be in me like a fever”

For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This...