January 2012 - Unequally Yoked

January 31, 2012

Invite Me to Debate!

In case two posts on strategy for debates on religion wasn't hint enough, I'd be...

January 31, 2012

Two Debaters Enter, One Epistemology Leaves

After I outlined my best practises for debating religion, Eve Tushnet and The Ubiquitous had...

January 27, 2012

Intelligently Designing a Debate on Religion

This week, I attended a debate on "Does God Exist?" co-sponsored by the DC branch...

January 27, 2012

7 Quick Takes (1/27/12)

--- 1 --- Goodness, I had fun times tonight. A local science museum hosted a...

January 25, 2012

It’s Hard Out Here for a Platonist

Alex Knapp took issue with my quasi-Platonism (and possible math idolatry) over at his tech...

January 23, 2012

Futzing Around with Final Causes

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of them...

January 22, 2012

Lewis Trounces Freud

I've already blogged once about reading Freud's Last Session, a two person play that is...

January 21, 2012

Free Will and Timeless Observers

After reading my post on decidedly undivine First Causes, one commenter had a question about...

January 20, 2012

Three First Causes I Don’t Pray To

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of...

January 20, 2012

7 Quick Takes (1/20/11)

--- 1 --- It's almost time for my new distance learning CS courses from Stanford...

January 18, 2012

Stop SOPA

Like many sites, I'm drawing attention to SOPA and PIPA, two terrible laws that threaten...

January 17, 2012

Look, let me say something pragmatic and hard-hearted

For the last two days, the story of Amelia Rivera has kept showing up in...

January 17, 2012

A (non-authoritative) post on Transgender Issues

There was a request in the comments that I do a post on Transgender issues...

January 16, 2012

[Feser] Stuck in the Map-Territory Gap

As promised yesterday, this is the kickoff of my analysis of and questions about Edward...

January 15, 2012

Reading a Book I’d Never Write

I've just finished Sara Miles's memoir Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion, but I don't...

January 15, 2012

Feser’s The Last Superstition [Index Post]

I ran into a Dominican at an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences event...

January 14, 2012

If you could only take 10 words to a desert island to talk about religon….

...which ones would you pick? This is not a hypothetical question. I got into a...

January 13, 2012

7 Quick Takes (1/13/12)

--- 1 --- I bought girl scout cookies from a coworker this week, and now...

January 12, 2012

What’s Wrong with my Atheism?

I mentioned in a recent post on moral philosophy that, although I understand why Christians...

January 10, 2012

In Ira Veritas?

Atheist blogger Greta Christina is taking D.J. Grothe (president of the James Randi Educational Foundation)...

January 06, 2012

7 Quick Takes (1/6/12)

--- 1 --- Tomorrow is Christmas in the Orthodox calendar and it looks like the...

January 05, 2012

What Makes a Great Atheist?

There's a controversy brewing over Staks Rosch's candidates for Atheist of the Year at the...

January 03, 2012

It’s Utilitarianism All the Way Down?

In the recent thread on human-independent morality, Ash had a question for me and Adam...