For some reason, my latest “reposed uncredibility” post was screwing up my template display, and not in a way specific to one template. I redated it a year into the future, and that’s solved my problems for now. I wish I knew what was going on, though. Anyone got any ideas? I can’t find anything [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Pinker vs. Kass on “dignity”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 25, 2008
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I’ve been sitting on a kerfluffle that I found out a couple of months ago via Ross Douthat, involving an attack by Steven Pinker on the work of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Pinker makes some good points, though after reading the contribution of his main target, former council chair Leon Kass, I get the [...]
CotG, HS, SC
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 24, 2008
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>>The 96th edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up at Sean the Blogonaut. >>The 22nd Humanist Symposium is up at Faith in Honest Doubt. >>The 91st Skeptic’s Circle is up at Sorting Out Science.
Reading comprehension difficulties at Uncommon Descent
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 24, 2008
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I’ve decided to take a break from serious blogging to document some recent instances of reading comprehension difficulties at the notorious creationist blog Uncommon Descent, from the course of the last month. First, we have Denyse O’Leary shrieking that those evil Darwinists are trying to change language to avoid admitting design! Follow the links, and [...]
Famine relief
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 23, 2008
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Next week, I will finally try to give a lecture making general points about consequentialism, and the other ethical perspectives that compete with it. Now, though, I want to discuss one last major problem case for moral theory, and see what consequentialism says about it. The key case is famine relief, but before we talk [...]