Philosophy – Page 67 – William M. Briggs

This Week In Doom: The Demands And Ravages Of Equality

Progressive beasts We had fun with the foolish Vox explaining that animals "in the wild" suffer from being eaten, from disease, from neglect, from the lack of personal recognition, and…

Philosophy

There Are Only Two Errors: Idealism & Materialism

There is that which is (and is not) and that which we know about that which is (and is not); i.e. there is ontology and epistemology. There are both and…

Philosophy Statistics

Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”

Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We finish…

Culture Philosophy

I Self-Identify As The Yak King

Person I know was attending recently a mandatory training session at a well known university. Session was led by trainers not themselves employees of the university, folks who self-identified as…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Eternal

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. God is…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Hates Nothing

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Three quick…

Culture Philosophy

Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

Matt Ridley has a curious piece in The Times (no, the better one), "Why Muslims are turning away from Islam". (Incidentally, Ridley and I both have chapters in the new…

Chad Jessup on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
How about three strikes, and you're dead, which of course would only be for the very violent criminals. Why warehouse…
shawn marshall on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
General Pyotr Wrangel in his bokk "Always with Honor" immediately stopped the predation by his own troo[s upon peasants by…
McChuck on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
I firmly support the concept of "three strikes and you're out" as it applies to capital punishment for a series…
McChuck on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
Capital punishment may or may not (although it almost certainly does) reduce criminality in the general sense. But it undeniably…
dadgervais on Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI PachinkoMay 8, 2026
As I (computer engineer, retired) have always maintained: people who believe in mechanical inteligence suffer from "Clever Hans Syndrome". A…