Surfing the internet is the wrong metaphor. Surfing is to skillfully ride a wave for thrills towards a destination. Aimlessly clicking enticing headlines in an effort to avoid responsibility and delay labor […]
Contingency, Causality, Determinism, And Free Will
In thinking about what probability means, it’s important to sort out what is contingent and what relationship contingent events have to causality. Contingency simply means that what is could have been something […]
Is Free Will an Illusion?
Tis the season to ask the title question, as it was rhetorically asked by Shaun Nichols, an academic “experimental” philosopher at the University of Arizona. Nichols has sympathy with those who say […]
To Be, Or Not To Be…Free: Sam Harris & Jerry Coyne On Free Will — Guest Post by Mariano Grinbank
Mariano Grinbank is a Judeo-Christian apologist who knows when to say he’s not sorry. See this video). Lack of free will is a trope that is growing in importance in scientific circles. […]
The Reason Rally Fizzles
An army; well, a brigade; or anyway at least a couple of battalions of Brights milled around the mall in Washington DC on March 24—various estimates gave “highs are around 20,000 with […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part V
Soul music Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. A mistake followers of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas would not make is […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part Last: Skulls Full Of Nothing
Don’t Think Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Buy the book ($12.92 as of last glance). There is a curious phenomenon […]
The HHS Mandate & Hobby Lobby: Updated
I’m a little late with this; pressures of work. Nevertheless, it’s Hobby Lobby appreciation day. Open letter from CEO. One day the department of Health and Human Services sat in a room […]
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