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Richard Dawkins Is A Dangerous Man: Update

I'll tell you how. He makes people feel smarter than they are. And in our world of self-esteem substituting for accomplishment and ability, his villainous power is especially poisonous. For…

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Sam Harris Asks, “Can Science Answer Moral Questions?” No, Sam, It Cannot

I was having a back-and-forth on Twitter with Craig Mazin â€(@clmazin) about Sam Harris's claim that morality is a scientific and not a metaphysical question. As evidence, Mazin pointed me…

Book review Philosophy

General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII

Read Part VI. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really…

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Selective Abortion To Create Master Race: Progressive Academic Pushes For Moral Enhancement

Today's discovery is yet another academic with the map to Utopia glistening in his mind's eye. David DeGrazia of George Washington University, author of the peer-reviewed paper "Moral enhancement, freedom,…

Book review Philosophy

Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism

Note: I do not own the book discussed below. I refuse to pay for it (it's $95!). If any well-off reader has a copy he would like to donate, then…

Fun Philosophy

The Red-Ball-In-The-Box Fallacy

Okay, friends, I need your help. One day last year, shortly after I had arrived in Taiwan, I awoke from a fitful, jet-lagged sleep at 2 a.m. with the argument…

Philosophy Statistics

Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!

(All the stuff in this series is, in a fuller form, in my new upcoming book, which is tentatively called Logical Probability and Statistics---but I've only changed the title 342…

Culture Philosophy

Church Of England Rejects Female Bishops: Can Truth Be Had By Vote?

The Church of England put to a vote whether to include females as bishops last week. Females are already ordained in that organization (and by some reports will soon comprise…

Briggs on Class 46: Explanation & Abductive WeaknessApril 20, 2025
gareth, I'll see if I can directly upload them starting next week. Thanks.
gareth on Class 46: Explanation & Abductive WeaknessApril 19, 2025
Thanks for the lecture - still following Class :-) You might like to know however that the Bitchute link no…
Klimatická studie „dýchání p?ispívá ke zm?n? klimatu“ versus realita. Corbett?v report: Maska klimatického kultu smrti odpadává. 45 – Pr?vodce vzestupem duše on Scientists Discover Animals BreatheApril 18, 2025
[…] A navíc, opravdu pot?eboval celý tým dob?e financovaných „odborník?“ m?síce pe?livého studia a recenzovaný ?lánek v ?asopise, aby potvrdil,…
hudbwu on The Educational Empire Strikes BackApril 17, 2025
It's fun how the comment section is fast deteriorating into a bitchfight of University fans. xD > the Wail and…
Plantagenet on The Educational Empire Strikes BackApril 17, 2025
UCal Berkeley and Cambridge (UK) rank ahead of MIT