Ethical egoism is the position that says that one ought to value oneself above others and that one ought to always act with the aim of benefiting oneself. Ethical egoism also holds […]

From reader Caleb Hansen comes this email: I hemorrhaged brain cells while reading this article from “Interesting Engineering” and thought to share it with you. [link to article] The experts get so […]

Briggs: My rebuttal is in the comments. For centuries, a welter of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic commentators, with nary a whimper from their “common sense,” dutifully repeated Aristotle’s statement in On the […]

Here is a thread worth discussing: Technology and Demons a helios thread pic.twitter.com/73LYraEoFb — heli?s (@helioslogos) May 29, 2021 The main points the gentleman makes are these: “All technology comes from demonic […]

This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate his entry […]

Anon reader query: I believe you are a Christian apologist. I am a theist but have issues seeing a reason to believe in an afterlife. Do you have any reasons to believe […]

We were talking this morning about the latest insanity when she said ‘I hate all these damn politicians!’ I answered, saying that she had to quit imagining that ‘politicians’ control anything, at […]