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August 2012

August 29, 2012

The Virtue of an Almost Right Solution

Earlier today, in my final Sondheim post, I was writing in praise of the grotesque....

August 11, 2012

The gift my weirdo debate friends gave me

Tonight is the summer alumni debate of my philosophical debating group, and I’ve had an...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

An Objective Immoral Moral Law

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

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Making Book on God

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

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Epistemology for Time-Travelers

I've been mulling over a weird thought-experiment, and I'd be really interested in your intuitions....

December 2011

December 10, 2011

Finding the Morality Pill Hard to Swallow

After a week of talking about transhumanism, brain-hacking, and the persistence of identity, I couldn't...

December 08, 2011

Simulated Ethics and Brainmodding

It's a week of tough questions about transhumanism. After reading my post on moral hazard...

November 2011

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...