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2012-08-24T12:42:59-04:00

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Aaaahhh! Aaaaahhhhh! AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhHHHH!

Last updated on: August 24, 2012 at 12:42 pm By Leah Libresco

That’s my knee jerk reaction to Hanna Rosin’s new piece for the Atlantic on whether women are well served by hookup culture. I’ll get a little more cogent after the blockquote: But this analysis downplays the unbelievable gains women have lately made, and, more important, it forgets how much those gains depend on sexual liberation. Single young women in their sexual prime—that is, their 20s and early 30s, the same age as the women at the business-school party—are for the first... Read more

Morality in Practice

feminism and the family

no war but culture war

sex and sexuality

taking out a contract on your future self

2012-08-24T01:05:01-04:00

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7 Quick Takes (8/24/12)

Last updated on: August 24, 2012 at 1:05 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — No theme this week, just a number of excellent links I’ve not gotten around to posting when I was striving for coherency. If you’ve ever gotten lost in early Church history or if you just love awesome things, you should read this story from Swarthmore about students who invented a sect to trick their history professor (and then he turned the tables!). Here’s a teaser: Our plot thickened: We introduced a Sherkite scholar—E.R. Englehardt, actually a... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2012-08-24T18:05:03-04:00

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Here there be Dragons [Reply to JT]

Last updated on: August 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm By Leah Libresco

So, JT asked: 3. You undoubtedly have a logical proof of some sort for a moral lawgiver. What is it? No, I definitely don’t have a modus tollens, modus ponens style justification for my new position. I didn’t have one for my old position, and I doubt JT’s got one for his metaphysics. As the name suggests, metaphysics are hard to test. So I end up approaching the problem from both sides. I look for things I’m really confident... Read more

Apologetics

Conversion

Epistemology/Philosophy

high energy theoretical ethics

map and territory

metaphysical backsliding

reply to JT Eberhard

2012-08-30T14:10:49-04:00

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“What do you wanna [stay single] for?”

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 2:10 pm By Leah Libresco

I’m delighted to say that Christian H of The Thinking Grounds has sent in a guest post for the Sondheim Symposium. Christian H is an English Lit grad student in Canada, and his blog is one of the reasons you should use RSS readers: it updates irregularly, but is always interesting. Take it away, Christian! Sondheim’s musical Company might strike many as being strangely silent on the subject of what marriage is, and what it is for, considering that it... Read more

Morality in Practice

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2012-08-23T16:09:49-04:00

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Who Gets to Give the Courtier’s Reply?

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 4:09 pm By Leah Libresco

How fortuitous that the same day I asked people to trust me and do the reading, Yvain (who you may remember from the Natural Law post that launched a thousand ships) has written a post examining the usefulness of the Courtier’s Reply. You should read the whole thing, but I’m going to cut and paste for a blockquote: In other words, any version of the Courtier’s Reply strong enough to shut down people who want you to spend the rest of your... Read more

Debate Tactics

Epistemology/Philosophy

2012-08-22T09:54:57-04:00

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An Apology to JT Eberhard

Last updated on: August 22, 2012 at 9:54 am By Leah Libresco

It has been quite a while since the deadline I set for answering JT Eberhard’s questions after my conversion. One of the reasons for the delay is that I turn out to be terrible at spacing commitments or estimating how much free time I had. (Getting overwhelmed after my announcement and telling everybody “Contact me again in two weeks” was a bad idea). But the other, content related problem is that, based on these questions, JT and I (and atheist!me... Read more

Apologetics

Housekeeping

reply to JT Eberhard

2012-08-21T12:34:49-04:00

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Who are you dressed up as today?

Last updated on: August 21, 2012 at 12:34 pm By Leah Libresco

Since we’ve been talking about theatre, (and had a guest post from an actress) I have all the excuse I need to link to Eve Tushnet’s tribute to John Keegan. She wrote: Keegan proposes that leadership requires theatricality: Heroic leadership–any leadership–is, like priesthood, statesmanship, even genius, a matter of externals almost as much as of internalities. The exceptional are both shown to and hidden from the mass of humankind, revealed by artifice, presented by theatre. The theatrical impulse will be... Read more

2012-08-21T00:24:42-04:00

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This Atheist Activism Failure Might Actually be a Win for Skepticism

Last updated on: August 21, 2012 at 12:24 am By Leah Libresco

Over at Friendly Atheist, Paul Fidalgo of the Center for Inquiry has posted an open letter to imprisoned activist Alexander Aan that doubles as a rebuke to the skeptic/atheist/freethought community. A month long drive to get 25,000 signatures on a WhiteHouse.gov petition failed. We were not asking for money, we were not asking anyone to travel, or march, or even write anything. All we were asking was the click of a few buttons. Why so many thousands could not be... Read more

Atheism

Epistemology/Philosophy

activism

empiricism

2012-08-30T14:10:37-04:00

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“It’s not so hard to be married. I’ve done it three or four times.”

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 2:10 pm By Leah Libresco

Inspired by the Sondheim Symposium, my college friend Katharine Pitt offered a guest post based on her own experiences acting marriages in Shakespeare (She’s pretty awesome, so I’m sure she won’t mind me inserting a plug for Slings and Arrows in the intro to her post). I think all the rest you need to know is she’s awesome (bears repeating), the photos below were taken by William Sacco (captions courtesy of Katharine), and everything that follows is hers. Take it... Read more

2012-08-30T14:10:25-04:00

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“Bobby, you’ve been looking peculiar”

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 2:10 pm By Leah Libresco

After the song above, Amy can’t decide whether to go through with her wedding, and decides to call it off (“I’m sorry, Paul. I don’t love you enough“). After her about-to-be-husband walks out of the room, she turns to Bobby for validation, asking, “What did I just do?” Bobby, looking a little panicked, scrunched up against a wall replies,”You did what you had to do, I guess. If it was right, you would have gone through with it. That’s what... Read more

Epistemology/Philosophy

sondheim symposium

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