by Carl Howard | Aug 30, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
Different apologists have different styles. One style is to be an academic apologist who is often associated with rigour and intellectualism in the eye of their audience. They often have academic posts and might have a reasonable and decent collection of published...
by Carl Howard | Nov 28, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
The question of definitions (what is an atheist vs agnostic) and all that nonsense have been popping up again. Especially the recent exchange between Larry Moran (here, here and here) and John Wilkins (here, here, here). Before I post on this I thought it might be...
by Carl Howard | Nov 14, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
A quick follow-up to last week’s post about the dancing squid. An interesting related post was made on the Seed of Reason blog in 2009. The post speaks of the danger of basing too much of our conclusions about the lives of animals on direct observation — which I would...
by Carl Howard | Sep 6, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
There’s quite a lot of content out there that reaches beyond the standard logical fallacies and peels the layers of the onion. It talkis about the deeper biases and features of our brain that make us all susceptible to flawed and magical thinking, as opposed to more...
by Carl Howard | May 4, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Philosophy, Society
Anatoly Wasserman is one of the most famous public intellectuals in Russia today. He is essentially a genius with some astronomical IQ who largely taught himself entire fields of knowledge. He first came to fame in 1989 for being an unbeatable contestant on Soviet...
by Carl Howard | Apr 27, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
There seems to be an interesting relationship between a key puzzle in metaethics and a key puzzle about consciousness. In the field of metaethics, the main aim is generally to propose a theory of what it means for something to be moral, with justification. (It is the...
