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Guy Kahane: Value and Philosophical Possibility
November 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Abstract: Much seems to be at stake in metaphysical questions about God, free will or morality. One thing that could be at stake is the value of the universe we inhabit—how good or bad it is. We can think of competing philosophical positions as describing possibilities, ways the world might turn out to be, and to which value can be assigned. When, for example, people hope that God exists, or fear that we do not possess free will, they express attitudes towards these possibilities, attitudes … [Read more...]
Matt McCormick’s NPR Interview
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A great interview from NPR. … [Read more...]
Paul Kurtz, January 25, 1925 – October 21, 2012
October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
(The following was written by Eddie Tabash and posted with permission)I take great pride in being the major financial backer of Internet Infidels. The intellectual fire power that this website brings to bear in the quest to refute supernatural claims is a sheer delight in a world so riven with superstition. My actual induction, as it were, into freethought organizations was in 1995, when Paul Kurtz brought me into the three organizations he founded: the Center for Inquiry, Council for Secular … [Read more...]
Myself, Peter Atkins, Richard Swinburne, Ard louis,(and Richard Dawkins) in conversation
October 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here is a fairly long video of a discussion between myself, Richard Swinburne (philosopher), Peter Atkins (chemist), Ard Louis (physicist), and also Richard Dawkins (who was in the audience) at one point. The theme was Life, The Universe and Everything - The Quest for Truth.My main contribution is at 39 mins 30sec.(nb. Dawkins is at 1hr 18 min 20 sec [he has a pop at Swinburne and me] and my response to Dawkins at 1hr 24 min 30 sec).I posted on this before, shortly after the recording. Go … [Read more...]
ex-apologist: On a Common Apologetic Fallacy
September 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The fallacy sketched above occurs so frequently in the apologetics literature that I hereby label it the Apologetics Fallacy. The Apologetics Fallacy is the dialectical fallacy of assuming, in contexts of the sort sketched above, that because one has shown that D isn't a rebutting defeater for P, one has thereby shown that D isn't an undercutting defeater for P. A paradigm case of the Apologetics Fallacy can be found on pp. 291-292 of this article. And a paradigm case of the … [Read more...]
Basic Structure of My Evidential Arguments
June 17, 2012 By 7 Comments
Epistemic Interpretation of Probability In this article series, when I refer to probability I shall be adopting the epistemic interpretation of probability. The epistemic probability of a statement is a measure of the probability that a statement is true, given some stock of knowledge. In other words, epistemic probability measures a person’s degree of belief in a statement, given some body of evidence. The epistemic probability of a statement can vary from person to person and from time to … [Read more...]
Christian Philosopher Michael Sudduth Converts to Vaishnava Vedanta
January 21, 2012 By 8 Comments
Bill Vallicella has posted a long letter from Sudduth on his blog, describing what has happened and how. This is not the kind of thing one sees very often, so it makes for fascinating reading. … [Read more...]
ex-apologist: Some Great Papers from Schellenberg Now Available Online
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ex-apologist: Some Great Papers from Schellenberg Now Available OnlineThanks, Ex-Apologist, for pointing these out. Schellenberg really is one of the best philosophers of religion today. I think his work deserves much more publicity than it gets, especially among atheists. … [Read more...]
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