ethics
August 2015
August 20, 2015
“Now if the basic moral principles are analytic, the existence of what they describe cannot...
August 12, 2015
have been imagining that Jehovah was at least quasi-just and thus demanded trials for each...
August 11, 2015
In Part 3 of this series, I raised twenty objections to a Conservative Christian approach to...
August 09, 2015
In Part 2 of this series, I began to discuss the Conservative response to the Old...
August 07, 2015
In Part 1 of this series, I outlined three main Christian responses to the stories...
August 07, 2015
During last night's prime-time Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Fox News host Megyn Kelly said this:...
August 04, 2015
My friend Wintery Knight (WK) has written another blog post on the topic of morality....
August 03, 2015
The concept of "objective morality" is notorious for its ambiguity. You might even say that...
June 2015
June 11, 2015
In his book The Resurrection of God Incarnate, Richard Swinburne argues that the case for...
May 2015
May 07, 2015
Isn't it amazing that God's commands as reported by holy books just happen to reflect...
May 04, 2015
My recent interview for the Atheistically Speaking podcast inspired me to compile this quick primer in religion...
April 2015
April 27, 2015
John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University, has posted an essay reasserting the old...
April 26, 2015
I think I may have conceived of a novel response both to pragmatic moral arguments...
April 26, 2015
It is supposed, by some, to be difficult for naturalism to account for moral properties...
April 25, 2015
In his book, Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language, Quentin Smith defends...
April 24, 2015
In an earlier article, I wrote about a question for divine command metaethics, a question...
April 17, 2015
Abstract: This paper considers William Lane Craig’s metaethical argument for God’s existence. Roughly, the argument is...
March 2015
March 22, 2015
Chapter 7. Mother Theresa vs. Hitler In this chapter, G&T present a version of...
March 13, 2015
Some people confuse moral objectivity and moral accountability. To say that moral values are objective...
March 10, 2015
The Divine Command Theory says that God possesses the power to ground or create moral...
January 2015
January 03, 2015
Over the last fifteen or so years, Paul Copan has written a variety of articles,...
November 2014
November 14, 2014
I’ve been carrying on a conversation with Matthew Flannagan about the arbitrariness objection to the...
November 07, 2014
In his essay, "A Free Man's Worship," Bertrand Russell writes: Such, in outline, but even...
November 07, 2014
Oxford University Press has just published the latest book by Erik Wielenberg, entitled Robust Ethics:...
October 2014
October 28, 2014
William Lane Craig and Massimo Pigliucci debated the existence of God in 1998. (Click here...
October 27, 2014
Cornell University biologist William Provine debated UC Berkeley law professor in 1998. (Click here for...
October 25, 2014
Steve Hays has commented on my previous post, "Fact Checking the Inevitable Consequences of an...
October 24, 2014
Earlier this year, J. Warner Wallace reposted on his blog something written by an anonymous...
October 24, 2014
There is a standard objection to the divine command theory (DCT) that runs as follows:...
October 19, 2014
Larry Arnhart always writes terrific blog posts; this one from 2013 is no exception. (If...
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