Helen Rittelmeyer is blogging and writing again. She just contributed to the American Spectator's Youth Symposium, claiming that relativism is no longer conservatism's greatest enemy. Let me grab a pull quote. In the last culture war, relativism’s influence was evident in the stock arguments that kept appearing in magazines and op-ed pages: Breaking taboos is valuable for its own sake; people have a right to make their own choices and not be judged for it; what you call a social evil is … [Read more...]
Play Along with Rationality Camp at Home!
July 24, 2012 By 17 Comments
While you're all missing me, there are three games you might want to try that I've been playing at rationality camp. The first two games are related. The first one is called the Calibration Game and the second is called the Updating Game. (Note: both those links start downloads of zip files). Both are trivia games, but, although you're trying to get questions right, the focus is less on how knowledgeable you are and more on how good you are at gauging your own uncertainty. The … [Read more...]
Krauss Defines Philosophy Down
April 28, 2012 By 27 Comments
Previously on this blog, I was really teed off by Laurence Krauss contemptuous comments about philosophy at the American Atheists National Conventions (and I agreed with one of the big critiques of his book). It looks like he's been catching flack for the anti-philosophy comments, and he's written an essay in Scientific American to clarify his position. I'm excerpting below the parts I found most relevant, but you guys should check out the whole piece. [In physics], I, and most of the … [Read more...]
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