I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks’ end. From reader S: “I […]
Do Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, “Doc, I saw that new ad. The […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part I
This series originally began 5 August 2012. The links to the remainder are below. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. This […]
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show that the […]
The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
Formal Logic And Probability
One of the arguments is that probability does not extend predicate logic, but does extend propositional logic. The concern is that because predicate logic is formal and propositional logic is not, or […]
A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday’s article, Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne’s. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the afternoon before, […]
Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may be more […]
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