Russell reads his classic, Why I Am Not A Christian. I find his reading and his rhetoric riveting. Your Thoughts?
Philosophers’ Blog Carnival
September 28, 2009 By 3 Comments
Welcome to The Philosophers’ Blog Carnival at Camels With Hammers! (via Peter Mandik’s Brain Hammer) First I want to kick things off with a super post not actually submitted to the carnival but worth your attention nonetheless. Phil Goetz writes: The history of religions sometimes resembles the history of viruses. Judaism and Islam were both [...]
Logicomix: The Graphic Novelization Of The Life Of Bertrand Russell
September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
That illustration comes from Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth about Bertrand Russell’s real life philosophical adventures. The Independent’s writes: The subject of the newest comic-strip sensation, though, might still raise eyebrows: it’s the story of the quest for the foundation of mathematics, starring and narrated by Bertrand Russell, the British logician, philosopher, mathematician, reformer, pacifist, [...]
Were The 20th Century Wars A Rebuke To Reason?
August 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
City of God argues that the New Atheists need to learn from history that reason is no guide to world-improvement If religion had motivated people to die for God and King, surely reason and science had made the dying that much nastier through the innovations of gas, flame-throwers, bomber aircraft, bigger artillery and the like. [...]
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