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Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change

The headline boomed "CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)". Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund. The opening line is a teaser,…

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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version

In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…

Fun Philosophy

Weekly Mail

I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…

Philosophy

Don’t Blame Me. I Don’t Have Free Will

Try this argument on for size: I am a smart, clever guy with an advanced degree in neurology and tenure. The brain is a biological machine. But I don't understand…

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Proving What You Want To Believe

You can always find a way to believe anything. That "always" is strict---the magic of belief, like a card trick with a gaffed deck, can always be worked. But just…

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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…

Philosophy

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…

Culture Philosophy

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…

Thérèse on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 26, 2024
Fascinated, grateful that he should have corresponded with Fr. Martin. One fine day indeed we shall know all.
Johnno on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 26, 2024
JH, why are you confused? Briggs' conclusion easily follows through. Are you deliberately trying to act confused? Or are you…
Heresolong on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Unfortunately I don't have any more details. It just stopped working. Oh well. Substance mirror works though so I'll just…
THVRSDAY AFTERNOON EDITION | BIG PULPIT on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
[…] News, Punditry, and Analysis: RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, Catholic – William M. Briggs, Ph.D. Evangelization: Hope for the…
BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 25, 2024
Rudolph H. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the 'life makes me anxious' problem. AI tells me what to do...and…