The Vaccine Discussion: Update

So. Vaccines. People are having trouble keeping separate matters scientific and ethical and moral. Let's attempt a classification. Scientific Vaccines protect against disease. Disease The etiologies of diseases are understood…

What Is Cause Like?

Time for the two-week teaching sojourn. In order to grasp cause, we need a brief, a very brief, introduction to the Aristotelian metaphysics of change. These are ancient views, largely…

Why Progressives Believe Global Warming

Everybody believes propositions based on arguments of some kind. All progressives (so far as I know) believe in global-warming-of-doom, defined as if-we-don't-do-something-the-world-boils. What argument are they using? Probably more than…